Gotta love the revisionist history by Soundwave. And the poor excuses for Nintendo not being the same thing when called out.
In their time, Nintendo was probably just as big a dick as MS, maybe worse. Why do you think so many devs/pubs jumped ship to Sega when it launched the Genesis, basically forcing Nintendo to be more friendly when the SNES finally launched? And then the next generation, came in masses to Sony? And no, it wasn't because Sony and Sega were paying them, or even the freedom, which there definitely was more of, it was because of how poorly they were treated by Nintendo. Nintendo looked at them as 2nd class citizens, instead of partners, like Sega and Sony. Nintendo had harsh restrictions if you wanted the priviledge to even publish on their system. Devs and pubs wanted to put Nintendo in their place, so they backed a different giant.
In the end and fortunately for Nintendo, it worked. Well, for the most part. While they are much better to 3rd arties, now, they still are kinda dicks to fans wanting to make fan projects based on their work, or even post vids on Youtube. I do think they have started backing off of that recently, so hopefully that continues.
And funny how Sony paid for all these exclusives, yet still allowed them to hit PCs. The fact is, when you sell more than 3x-4x the competition, while also hitting 100M+, you don't really have to pay that much, if at all, for exclusives on your system. Go figure.
Flash to present time, and we have MS who is really responsible for the modern interation of that. Not just paying exclusive rights to a game, but if that game does come out to another system, they pay for exclusive DLC. Timed or real. But, it really isn't so much the practice that irks people. It's MS bitching and moaning about when it is done to them. Either by finding contract-infringing methods to work around those deals, when they would have sued someone who did it to them, or faking the moral ground, only to continue the practice.
Of course, the saddest part is when you have the typical responses from their fans when they are called out on their BS. "Oh, he just meant DLC. Sure, MS used to be able to pay for that, too, and we had no problem with it, but now we do." "Oh, keeping a game off a platform isn't as bad as keeping DLC off of one. I'd rather not have that game than not be able to dress my character in different hats."
