| GribbleGrunger said: In my opinion one of the reasons for MS doing this is to create news like this. Sony won't want to hand over control of their online traffic and so will likely not allow it with several games MS mention (in the coming months/years). This will switch the narrative to try and make it look like it's Sony standing in the way of progress. 'MS want it but bad guy Sony won't allow it.' Watch. |
Yeah, it also deflects some of the negative press they got for the studio closures for now. But I can see how it would set up that narrative. It is a simple message that people can understand (MS want xbox to work with everything) but if Sony say "well that benefits MS but it impacts us negatively in a business sense", people don't even try to understand as it doesn't effect them.
They'll need to prepare PR to answer this one down the road.
