Question to the Xbox fans here: Sony tends to put moneyhats, on 3rd party games to make sure they are timed exclusives on Sony consoles. Or in other words they put temporary moneyhats on 3rd party games. That's wrong right? But isn't MS outright buying 3rd party studios, and then not publishing those games on Sony systems, a sort of permanent moneyhat? Isn't that worse? Shouldn't Wasteland 3, and Psychonaughts 2, and all those other formerly 3rd party studios' games get the same treatment as Outer Worlds?
| Leynos said: X-band started the whole pay for an online thing on Genesis and SNES in the 90s. Then we had Dreamcast with Phantasy Star Online for the first console MMO and the first console built around being online. DC had SEGANET in the US and had a monthly sub fee. Paying for online play did not start with Xbox. |
Right you are. I've no doubt that if MS wouldn't have stuck to paid online in the 360 era, there'd be no paid online for consoles today. At least not the kind that locks you out of playing online.
At any rate though, it's still pretty hypocritical of Xbox to attempt to call Sony out for lack of Crossplay functionality on some games, when just a generation ago they were locking their online behind a paywall, on all games, when the competition wasn't.
If MS was on the up and up, on "exclusives are evil", and "lack of crossplay is evil", they would publish their games on PS4/PS5, and discontinue their online paywall. Or at the very least they would try to get their games published on PS4. Sony might stop them, on some weird principle, or their might be technical issues with porting Xbox games to Sony consoles.
