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Microsoft: Sony is less supportive of creative staff

Speaking to Kikizo, Microsoft Games Studio's General Manager Kudo Tsunoda has made a few provocative remarks about the Redmond giant's rivals. Tsunoda, who joined Microsoft in January to help shape Gears of War 2, feels that his new employer offers more creative support than any other publisher.

"Every new game I've worked on I've tried to bring some innovation to the title, and not just be making something that's like a knock-off of some other game," he said. "And I think that's why I would want to come to MGS, and also why they would want me to work here. I think they're just always looking for people who can bring really innovative design ideas to the table."

"For some people working in games, it's so much easier to either knock a game that's already out there," he went on. "Or take pieces from a game and assemble it into something else. It's just like all the people who've copied the Gears cover system: "wow there's something that worked really well, let's put that into out game.""
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Published: 382 days 15 hours ago | Interview | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
 
 

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Chris Hansen - 382 days 16 hours ago
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"It's just like all the people who've copied the Gears cover system"

Just like how Gears of War copied KillSwitch's cover system? CliffyB is nothing more than a thief. Stealing someone elses idea and acting like he invented it.

Lips, Scene-it, Boku, Forza....
Talk about INNOVATION
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gaffyh - 382 days 15 hours ago
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Devs always say that Sony never rushes them to finish a game and allows them time to do whatever they want to creatively i.e. Team ICO, Guerilla Games, Level-5 (remember when MS cancelled their project when it was almost complete).

Unlike MS which obviously rushed Halo 3 development and now got rid of ensemble whilst they were making Halo Wars.
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Rick Astley - 382 days 15 hours ago
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Gotta love PR talk. http://www.gametrailers.com...

Lol.
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boodybandit - 382 days 15 hours ago
1.3 - There is a fine line between productive PR
and utter stupidity / embarrassment.
I let you guys decide which this was.
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MAiKU - 382 days 14 hours ago
1.4 - oh god.
That guy kudo tsunoda even looks like a fool, what's up with that half-bald hair-cut....

They guy shoulda realized what sony does offer on the creativity front, they came out with more innovative and creative games that completely demolish microsoft's.

-That gaming company
-playstation studio
-Media molecule
-Pixel Junk

All four are fine examples of creative game developers highly supported by sony. Especially those who created LINGER IN THE SHADOWS which is not even a game, it's pure art.
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fishd - 382 days 14 hours ago
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That's the main problem of MS,Their gaming division is run by fanboys,stupid fanboys who has nothing else to do but fan the flames of fanboy wars.

*sigh*
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Nathan Drake - 382 days 14 hours ago
1.6 - You know what's funny about Microsofts blatant rip-offs of Sony games?
All their rip-offs have tanked
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AclayPS3 - 382 days 14 hours ago
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Sony less supportive of creative staff?

Have Microsoft forgotten about Team ICO and Media Molecule? Both of those studios have put some some pretty creative games, and both of Team ICO's games(Shadow of the Colossus and ICO) are considered some of the greatest PS2 games of all time and are highly regarded.

If Insomniac has been an independant developer for this long and has remained Sony exclusive for this long, then obviously there IS plenty of support from Sony towards creative staff because I don't think that Insomniac would have stuck with Sony this long if they weren't.
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Genesis5 - 382 days 14 hours ago
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MS has one great big collective mouth and it never seems to know when to shut up.
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BrianC6234 - 382 days 12 hours ago
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I didn't waste my time reading this dumb interview. When I saw the part about he chose Microsoft over Sony because Microsoft offers more creative support I knew it wasn't worth reading. Microsoft knows nothing about being creative. Their idea of creative is buy the competition or squish them. I wonder if Sony even offered him a job? Probably not.
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jadenkorri - 382 days 11 hours ago
1.10 - man this is f'in lame
this guy hasn't even worked with sony, the whole interview, only mentions sony as a possbible job offer...so what he went to MGS, good for him...the main headline is from 360 fanboy Kush_Reaper.... BTW, i laughed my ass off when people were coping Gears of War... Ya people from MS must go really far claiming they created everything orginal...just like avatars was MS original idea....right...
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pain777pas - 382 days 11 hours ago
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The arrogance of M$ is appaling seriously they better qft because I have a strange feeling at the end of the day with all that they have done they are going to be dead last at the end of this gen.
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ablecain - 382 days 10 hours ago
1.12 - When it comes to videogames
Microsoft is far and away the least innovative company on the market. They pride themselves in stealing PS3 exclusives (you saw E3 this year), and everything else they've produced has been a knockoff of something else.

Lips, the use of Avatars, that upcoming level creator game... Anybody insisting that MS is innovative is simply foolish.
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Flipgeneral - 382 days 10 hours ago
1.13 - this article
made me chuckle... tee hee
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Kaneda - 382 days 10 hours ago
1.14 - Sad
and the sad thing is people are still buying their products. :) when people work at M$ don't know what they are doing.

Avatar was creative.. NOT!!!
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prowiew - 382 days 10 hours ago
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The title is a little misleading. He never says it like that. People need to read articles.
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Beast_Master - 382 days 10 hours ago
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Yes They are so supportive of creative ideas that is why the ran every last person from the original Rare team to leave. It is why Bungie is on thin ice, why they dispanded Ensemble Studios and closed 3 others. Let's not forget they let Bio-Ware and Pandemic walk over to EA. Yes this is certainly a company I would love to work for.
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house - 382 days 10 hours ago
1.17 - all i have to say is
wow! if any one pays attention microsoft is the one thats more inecfted with a sickness of not being able to make there own stuff. here take the red pill and wake up cause if you think they have have an open mind you need it


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cmrbe - 382 days 9 hours ago
1.18 - WTF??
Who took big risk on Lair, LBP, Afrika, EOJ?

What creative or new and innovative games have MS FIRST PARTY released?.

Gears cover if from Kill switch and even then they are 3 party.

With comments like these its obvious that MS is loosing it. Wow! just wow.
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ShinGino - 382 days 8 hours ago
1.19 - HAHAHAHAHAHAHA XD XD XD XD LOL LOL LOL
Sony being called less creative by Microsoft is like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.

Seriously, Lips, Avatars, and Gears of War's cover system is NOT NEW IN ANY WAY. Not just Killswitch, but also Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror had the cover system almost a year before Gears of War.

P.S. Gears of War 2's cover system was inspired by Uncharted.
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Danja - 382 days 7 hours ago
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I didn't even bother read the entire article.....

If this guy think that M$ produces more innovative games than Sony then he's smoking something from another universe..

Lair
Heavy Rain
Echochrome
SoTC
ICO
Afrika
EOJ
Flow
Singstar - was the 1st of it's kind
Eye Toy...

just to name a few..
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SaiyanFury - 382 days 7 hours ago
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Wow big shock, another MS employee from EA shooting his mouth off, the other being Don Mattrick. MS seems to enjoy hiring big mouthed ex-EA employees. Like their Windows Vista operating system, MS's employees, at least the ones with microphones pointed at them, are over bloated.

Sony not giving enough creative freedoms to it's studios? BS. Some of the most creative games in the industry have been on the PS consoles. Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, LittleBIGPlanet and the list goes on and on. Sony studios regularly testify that they love working under Sony BECAUSE of the creative freedoms they're given. Don't listen to this PR spin put out by yet another ex-EA staff member. I swear MS hires people not based on ability but based on how much smoke they blow.
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IDemonstalkerXI - 382 days 5 hours ago
1.22 - @ ShinGino
Bubs, being called yellow by a bunch of bananas. 2funny.
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ryuyasho - 381 days 22 hours ago
1.23 - I just focking love...
plagiarism and MS does it with great passion. Check this out, dating back to the N64 era ladies and gents...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

talk about INNOVATION... fockers

ahh and for the record , Halo 1 is THE BEST of the 3...
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pwnsause - 381 days 20 hours ago
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"Who took big risk on Lair, LBP, Afrika, EOJ?"

Dont forget Eyepet. If theres any company thats taking big Risks right now, its Sony, the fact that they axed The GetaWay 3 and 8 Days for Eyepet, clearly shows that Sony wants a Huge piece of that Casual Crowd. LBP is a primary example of that as well.
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riksweeney - 382 days 16 hours ago
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One word: Lips
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Nathan Drake - 382 days 14 hours ago
2.1 - "It's just like all the people who've copied the Gears cover system"
Or like how Gears of war copied Kill.Switch,Resident Evil 4,and the God of War series.

It's amazing how ignorant Microsoft's employees are,it truly is.
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DarK-SilV - 382 days 13 hours ago
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waiting for hiphopgamer to smash this idiot
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NowGen - 382 days 8 hours ago
2.4 - OMFG
look how angry sony fans still get just by some dumb article. i think sony fans should be worrying about moving up out of the next gen basement instead of stupid stories like this one.
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kevnb - 381 days 15 hours ago
2.5 - lips is a bad example
singstar is only karaoke, while lips is a game that revolves around karaoke.
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sajj316 - 382 days 16 hours ago
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that's interesting ... how can you be creative if you don't have an office to be creative in? How many more studios are going to get cut? Epic is not under MGS and neither is Bungie (anymore) so please put on your development hat and not your publisher hat. I want MS to start supporting their OWN studios and push out some killer exclusives.
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ruibing - 382 days 10 hours ago
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Who fills their arcade with remakes while frustrating developers making original games? Who has just decided to shutdown Ensemble after getting them to make a RTS for the Halo franchise? Who fills their "original" catalog of family games with Scene It (Buzz), Lips (Singstar), and You're In The Movies (EyeToy)? The sad thing is that I can go on.
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ThePeoplesChamp - 382 days 16 hours ago
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when i see a creative game on the 360 then we can talk. MS copies everything that sony and nintendo do so to me it appears that MS is not supportive of a creative staff
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solidt12 - 382 days 15 hours ago
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I have never played Viva Pinata but that looks to be the only stand out different game on the platform. Everything else has been done i believe. So far most of the creativity I have seen has come out of the Nintendo or Sony camp.
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Silellak - 382 days 14 hours ago
4.2 - Knock knock.
Who's there?

Braid.
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thewhoopimen - 382 days 14 hours ago
4.3 - @silelak
hahaha 1 title developed by an independent guy Johnathan blow, who vow never to publish on live again is NOT an example u should be using. did you forget about the article where he pretty much said MS ripped him off?

Knock knock.

Who's brain dead?

Silelak
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Silellak - 382 days 13 hours ago
4.4 - @4.3
The creator's opinion of XBL is, for the point I'm trying to make, irrelevant.

The poster claimed he'd never seen a creative game on the 360. I corrected him.

As for the premise of the article, I think MS is full of crap with their claim about Sony, but that has nothing to do with the poster I replied to being blatantly wrong about "no creative games on the 360".
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Rock Bottom - 382 days 10 hours ago
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Actually there are some creative games on the 360, Bioshock for example, also braid as silelak said, the thing however, is that they don't have a single "good exclusive" creative game.
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animboo - 382 days 15 hours ago
6 - are you sure..
his not from sony, as i read his comment
"OK, it's a one million unit seller - awesome" - everybody's really excited about that, but here at MGS, every game that we're putting out, you've really got to put a focus on making sure it's AAA from a quality perspective."
that sounds a lot like how sony are doing things.
but innovative..no not really..just look at lips.
gears of war was not the first to use the cover system( they may be the most succesful, but still not the first) it was killswitch
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wetowel - 382 days 15 hours ago
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This is a joke, MS has copied basically everything they have going by their own logic.
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Are_The_MaDNess - 382 days 15 hours ago
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oh the irony
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Erotic Sheep - 382 days 15 hours ago
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Oh man, how blind can a company be? Even the Xbox fans will disagree with him
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Foxgod - 382 days 15 hours ago
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i dont, its a form of marketing, no use to claim negative things about yourself.
And since i support MS, and since they show good numbers, they can claim whatever they want.

Its only stupid when it comes from the mouth of someone who is losing.
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Erotic Sheep - 382 days 14 hours ago
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Foxgod you're a dumbass. Both the 360 and PS3 are losing, the Wii is the only one dominating. Secondly the PS3 is catching up despite the year headstart the 360 had so who is losing in that case?
And thirdly this has nothing to do with anyone winning or losing. It's the fact Microsoft has hardly showed any creative stuff in the past, from their new console to their games. I didn't see Microsoft pull off a LBP, a Singstar, a Buzz, an Eyetoy or a HOME on their own.

Or did you?
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Foxgod - 382 days 14 hours ago
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well, technically wii is playing their own league, 60 % market share for the wii doesnt make either sony or MS lose, because a lot of people that bought the wii would never buy a HD console.

Because the wii strongly rely's on the casual market, and less on the hardcore market.
The 360 and ps3 however, even though they aim at casuals too, they sell to hardcores mostly.

So the wii is in a completely different ship, its like baseball and football.

and about originality, i just want something that is plain fun, new is good too, but only if its fun.
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Erotic Sheep - 382 days 14 hours ago
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Fun doesn't equal creativity. There are a lot of games I think are fun, that doesn't make them creative in any way.
This article is about Microsoft stating they're creative, yet I ask you, what have they really shown in the past time? Even if you could state one game it's still miles behind Sony if you look at Linger in Shadows, Pain, Echochrome, LBP, EyePet, Heavy Rain, HOME etc etc etc..
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The gaming GOD - 382 days 13 hours ago
9.5 - @ 9.1
I'm sorry but I respectfully disagree with you very much

Just because your sales are good doesn't mean you can blatantly lie. And it doesn't make any of those blatant lies true either.
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