| KLAMarine said: Not only did they have a chance to dial the hype back, they gave NMS devs a big screen to promote the game on not once but twice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6JakCSDHPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGy8HIYBwV0
Hell, even Yoshida himself had a seat with Murray at one point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sb-clg3Tlw
Seems pretty active promotion to me. I believe it was Sony who approached Hello Games from the start! Knowing you thismeintiel, with all due respect, I suspect you would have been dancing and singing condemnation of this sort of behavior if it were anyone other than Sony. |
When I say Sony wasn't active in the promotion, I mean Sony took a laissez-faire approach rather than taking charge of Hello Game's PR. If you think Sony giving Hello Games a platform to promote NMS is an 'active' promotion, then sure, though now we would be going into semantics. Watching through the PSX video, you see that is mostly a Q&A. Yoshida is asking Sean Murray multiple questions and he answers them while further explaining about NMS. Again, if you want to interpret Yoshida's role as 'active', then okay. However, I would then ask you who was more 'active' in promoting NMS in the PSX video?
The situation is also different from SOT's since Hello Games is a 3rd party developer whereas Rare is a 1st party studio. Because Rare is owned by Microsoft, whenever Rare is promoting SOT, Microsoft is also effectively promoting SOT.
| KLAMarine said: Knowing you thismeintiel, with all due respect, I suspect you would have been dancing and singing condemnation of this sort of behavior if it were anyone other than Sony. |
You should drop the ad hominem. Just address his points, not his character.
