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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.
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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?
That one crying baby video was hilarious xD
Cant wait to see the new ads on tv.. thats when the sales should start going up even more. looks like itll be good too.
I know most people on this site are exceedingly quick to point out that the PS3 is in no need of course correction and that everything about it is perfect, but let's face it: it's not perfect (don't worry, I myself am a huge PS3 and am going somewhere with this). While I love almost everything about my ps3, from the games, to the blu-ray, to the psn, to everything else, I am more than willing to admit that Sony has f'ed up in the marketing/promotional department.
And a re-launch is the perfect opportunity to correct this issue. While maintaining the same technology, games and level of service we've come to know and love, this re-launch provides Sony with the opportunity to re-brand the PS3. This may seem obvious, but I think they should really, REALLY go overboard on their advertisements. Buy as many prime time TV spots as possible. Get on all the hero spots of the main web pages. Do EVERYTHING. If two of your commercials come on one after the other, so what! Even better! It makes no sense for the PS3 to spread out its marketing money over a month long period. They should blow all their marketing wad, so to speak, in a one week period just after the slim releases. Then trickle off to almost nothing for a few months, then come back strong a week or so before Black Friday.
As for the nature of their ads, I agree with the article in that this comedic, easy to understand approach is a huge step in the right direction for the PS3 (over crying babies and puddle reflections and stuff). I still think that they should try and hammer home the multi-functionality of the device. The "it only does everything" slogan is a good start, but I would do more. Make the PS3 sexy, an object of desire, something that even regular people are willing to shell out 300$ for. I'm not sure if you remember, but a while back Sony ran an ad where the PS3 was like a swiss army knife and all of its features were its "tools". And there was a wicked rock song in the background. More of that stuff.
Phew. Sorry for waxing on so long. Thoughts anyone?
They could have done a lot better with sales. People just don't realize all the things the PS3 is capable of. If only they had the slogan "It can only do everything," from the start.. Bahh.. better late then never.
Football season is just getting started here in the USA. Be a good time to show it off along with some Madden Madden 10 :D