Horrendous article as far as I'm concerned.
From what I've noticed the vast majority of times that people talk about double standards, they're comparing apples to oranges.
It would take forever to go over every single thing that it's wrong with the article, but here are some of the most ridiculous bits:
1."The double standard is blatant and goes like this. Anything Sony does, praise it. Anything bad they do, defend it, justify it or sweep it away."
Has the author spent a second on the ps blog? Ps fans with their real ps ID's complain about anything and everything. Freedom Wars doesn't get a physical release date? "Incompetent Sony".", "I hope they go out of business," "they took advatange of us", "I'm switching to MS" etc.
2. "had Sony come out and announced that it had got a timed exclusive deal I guarantee you, without one shred of doubt, that the large majority would have been praising Sony and their genius."
When has Sony ever done that with huge 3rd party games that were successful on a single other platform and they owe their success to that platform alone? You can't "what if" and blame them for everything you want. They haven't done it, so your theory has zero basis.
3 "I love them, but they pull unlikable crap too. PS Now anybody?"
Who says it's terrible? Why is he treating it as everyone hates it? And if ps fans do hate it, then what about point 1? Yes, if that was a student's essay, they'd been marked down for contradicting themselves. But it's gaming journalism where you can hide behind "hey, it's my opinion". Let's not forget that it's still a t a beta stage.
4. Comparing XBONE initial policies with first years of ps3? Seriously? In what way are they equally bad? Sony made a product that was expensive and they were bleeding $200 on each ps sold. It's not like they were trying to sell it for $1000 and then changed the price after it flopped. Also, what about the first years of ps3? There were plenty of great games to play on it and that cannot be compared to xbone policies. It's also beyond obvious he doesn't have an argument from the fact that he doesn't specify what he's referring to. Ok, it was first couple of bad years.. because? That's right. There's nothing equally bad to what MS tried to pull.
5. "Phil Spencer is actually a decent and likable guy"
How on earth is that a reason to own an xbone or to be ok with ms? How does one being a likeable guy affect my gaming enjoyment? Policies do. Terrible anti-consumer practises do. Whether Kaz or Yoshida are cool doesn't.
I give this article a Knack/10. Terrible argumentation all around.
