While I am an avid Playstation supporter, this is not intended to be a flamebait. It's just a curious question that I have for Xbox fans and avid supporters of the XBone.

So, throughout last gen, Sony was consistently refferred to as the copycat of the gen. When it came to entertainment apps like Netflix, the PSN Trophy system, the creation of PS Move, and games like PS Allstars & LBP Karting, many gamers, particularly Xbox and Wii supporters, claimed Sony to have copied these features and games from their competition. To be fair, these alligations were pretty accurate, though they didn't justify the bad wrap that the PS3 has recieved overall by these fans. These choices were just a few additions to a system that turned out to be fantastic overall. I don't know about you, but I firmly believed that PS3 has done the best this gen in terms of exclusives. The likes of Uncharted, The Last of Us, Killzone, Little Big Planet, God of War, and Gran Turismo (just to name a few), have created console defining experiences this past gen while also proving just how great Sony's first party is. 

As we all know, Microsoft has made some huge policy changes with the Xbox One as of late. The console has recieved the new nickname of Xbox One-Eighty, due to Microsoft's seemingly complete 180 degree reversal on policies that they originally claimed to be "irreversisble". These changes have come to be due to an almost obvious factor: The huge ammount of support Sony has been recieving with their Playstation 4, due to the fact they had these new policies from the getgo (no DRM, no mandatory peripherals, etc.). 

So I ask this: Seeing as Microsoft has been changing a lot of their policies, in an attempt to replicate the PS4 and it's policies, to gain more support, is it safe to say that Microsoft has already done alot of copying so far in the new gen?

I'm not trying to say that the XBone is suddenly doomed, as even the PS3 eventually beame a successful console, despite a very poor launch. I'm saying that the same people, who declared Sony a copycat, should at least admit that Microsoft is no more original.

Share your thoughts.

Nah. They didn't copy Sony they just did the smart thing by doing a 180. It would have been a catastrophe if they kept their old policies.

The cloud

That's not copying, that's being smart.

Fix'd.

It's not copying, it's avoiding a stillborn console.

My thoughts are: both companies have close to equal influences on the competitor.
And MS didn't copy Sony, they copied their own system: 360. Everything is just like we have it now as 360-owners.

Ummmmmmm... no...

Pretty much all the policies that Microsoft changed have been changed back to industry standards. No DRM is something that has been standard since the NES. Not having a camera plugged in all the time is something that's been standard for every system in the history of ever. They're not copying the PS4 by going back to established standards that pretty much every system (including the XBox and XBox 360) have used.

People seem to be a bit confused about copying. Copying is when you take something very specific and unique from another company and use it. Not the case here.

They aren't copying Sony. They have been reversing their policies making them more in line with what they did with the 360. I guess you could say they are copying themselves...

Sony is already copying MS by implementing a multiplayer paywall with PS plus...something that wasn't around during the PS3 era.

Xbox Live, Kinect 2.0, Impulse Triggers, and the cloud is filled with innovations so no.

As for the industry.  It is built around taking(Copying or pushing depending on how you look at them) ideas and improving on them

Charging for an online service isn't really copying :-/