| mizzou_guy said: Not surprised, as this was the same company that paid Rockstar $50-75 million dollars back at the beginning of the PS360 era to keep the GTAIV DLC off of the PS3. Not to develop it, mind you, but to just keep it off the console. This is why I have always hated MS for entering the console market and will never support them. They use their money like a weapon more than the other console manufacturers, bribing devs to keep their games off of their rivals machines. It does nothing but harm the console market. If they were instead using that money to fund the actual creation of exclusive content, I'd be more okay with it, cause it would be adding something to the market. But they're not. They pay money so people can't play other companies' games. I've never felt like MS has had the love for the industry that Sony and Nintendo both express. Sony and Nintendo have often done what they can to put new ideas out there and give a spotlight to upcoming developers. MS has always just performed tactics like this to try to damage other brands and bring themselves more money. Yes, they're all wanting to make money of course, but MS's tactics are just scummy on so many occasions. |
That's because they don't have the love of the industry that Sony and Nintendo have. Regardless of the higher ups practices earlier, they still had the drive to get into a market that had crashed recently. I think they saw it as the next logical step after their success in the arcades. Miyamoto is also obviously passionate about gaming. For Sony, you had Ken Kutaragi, and to a lesser extent the CEO who backed him, Norio Ohga. Kutaragi was so passionate about gaming he worked in secret to develop the sound chip for the SNES. Even when most of the execs were mad about it, he was able to convince them to allow him to continue the project, as well as the CD-ROM adapter for the SNES. When the latter fell through, he convinced them to create their own system, something he worked on for nights because he found it interesting.
What was MS's main reason for getting into the console biz? To stop Sony from taking over the living room and the PS possibly taking over the PC, quite a ridiculous notion. And while there may have been a few passionate people on the Xbox team, the company itself was just not in it for their love of gaming or the betterment of gaming, which really comes across in their moneyhatting and DRM policies that we have seen throughout the years.
