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EpicRandy said:

the-pi-guy said:

I kind of get why you have this idea. I'm assuming that you are under the impression that say Sega and Microsoft made an agreement to not advertise a PlayStation version until after they're announced, and Sony doesn't have to abide by that agreement because they're not the ones who signed that agreement.

But that doesn't make any sense when you look at the market. It would completely undermine pretty much every marketing deal in the gaming industry. By that argument, platform holders could reasonably announce games before the third party publisher does. It also would undermine exclusive marketing campaigns. 

It would be tenuous for Sony/MS to announce a game for their platform before the publisher for a number of reasons.

Legally, it's questionable to steal a publisher's trailer for a game, to edit your name onto it; which is basically what you're suggesting.

It would also make it hard to trust Sony/MS with those trailers. If a company you are working with is sharing privileged information, that's not good. 

ok got it, yeah it makes more sense this way.

But what I'm getting at is that it's kinda expected that when you provide such beneficial exposure to 3rd parties that said exposure is also beneficial to the one providing it. And on that front asking simply for a 2-day embargo that will only protect the benefice in the exact vicinity of the show itself is very generous, and trying to draw other conclusions like (the company is insecure) from that is very much jumping to conclusions. 

I think people have an issue with it because MS's marketing wasted no time highlighting all the the 3rd party games that were also coming to Xbox right after they were shown at the PS Showcase. To do that and then enforce an alleged 48 hr embargo after their own show seems hypocritical. It's not a big deal. More of a minor annoyance. But it does violate the golden rule of treat others the way you want to be treated.