Ben Dutka writes: "Earlier this week, Denis Dyack said that our current multiple console format in the industry is slowing us down, and that we should take a step forward, learn from the movies, and produce a universal console that would play all video games."
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.
Totally ridiculous comment.
The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.
Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.
Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.
And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.
You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.
"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."
Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Lying to yourself is unbecoming.
Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.
They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.
At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.
Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.
They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.
Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?
Multiple consoles will always exist.
If there was one platform, there'd be no competition, and therefore, the universal console company could charge any amount of money for it and there'd be no competition against it to make it keep its prices reasonable.
A single console monopoly is baaaaaad.
i hate monopoly
it would just go from "My console is better than yours!" to "I'm better than you!".
I can't believe anyone in the industry really thinks this will happen. The closest equivalent I can think of is the television. New TVs are all set up to receive the same content, but there are vast differences between TVs of different prices. Consoles, being hardware, would have the same basic features with different options depending on how much money you want to spend. Games, being software, would be programmed to take advantage of the basic console features. Some games though, would be made to support features that all consoles didn't have, thus defeating the purpose of a single console format. That's what I think anyway.
"Will A Universal Console Promote Maturity?"
No.
"Maybe we can move past the hundreds of so-called "journalists" with not-so-hidden agendas."
No.
"Maybe those of an adult age might start acting like adults."
No.
"Of course, certain sites that only exist to promote adolescent flaming and raving over this subject (and you know what they are) would disappear overnight."
Um, no.
"We'd be able to stop dealing with the kids who read the name of this site, the headline, not a word more of the article, and immediately launch into a superiority complex-driven, self-righteous rant of depressing proportions."
A. No.
B. I don't think you'd want that because you'd quickly realize that for the most part, it's not your site name or your headlines that turn people off.
C. That last bit's the pot calling the kettle black, isn't it?
"In short, with the advent of a universal console, maybe everyone would just grow the fu** up."
Of course. Because all of the immaturity on the internet is the direct result of videogame competition.
"Sure, we might still have the people who support BioWare over Square-Enix or something... but at least we will have removed the tumor that ails the gaming community and shackles our ankles."
No.
"There is no moving forward with this level of childishness permeating ever last corner of the social gaming community."
Yeah, those young whippersnappers today will never get ahead in life with their cell phones and their rap music and their different game consoles.
"I'd almost be willing to take a cut in quality to eliminate such a tumor. It would be an agreeable sacrifice in my eyes. No longer would a person's sole purpose in life be to dissect every last editorial written in an attempt to spot bias."
Yes, gaming's direction should be decided entirely by how it will affect arguments on the internet.
"No longer would every last "debate" erupt into pathetic flaming and other personal attacks."
You think that would happen? That's cute.
"It might force everyone to abandon such idiocy, simply because the option won't exist anymore."
No.
"And because we clearly can't fend for ourselves, a higher power might have to strip away the cause of the problem."
Having choices leads to arguments on internet message boards, therefore we should eliminate individual choice. That's the answer. Yes.