With the increasing popularity of video games has come a barrage of legislation targeted at keeping games like "Halo 3" out of the hands of impressionable youngsters. At the end of August several politicians spoke out about halting the sale of ultra-violent video games to minors. Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY) even claims that legislating against video games is a top priority for his state.
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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?
... how about a rating systems that is MARKED ON EVERY BOX and retailers need to apply the rules much like a retailer would not sell a XXX movie to a underage kid ..
OH WAIT .... they have one .... "ENFORCE IT" ... don't punish the rest of us. This debate is a Looooooooong time battle (remember Mortal Kombat) ... WOW
If parents want to go out and buy the game ANYWAY ... the issue is with the parents ... not the games. If a parent rents a porn flick for their 10 year old, don't punish the industry.
I was in a comic book store the other day and HEARD the sales guy ask the lady how old her son was. When she said 12, HE CAME RIGHT OUT AND TOLD HERE the comics were NOTHING like the Saturday morning cartoon show and the comics are WAY MORE VIOLENT.
- She bought them anyway -
Now you tell me ... who is at fault ??
As for the games, I said it years ago and stick to it especially with the evolution of games and the implimentation of a rating system ... we NEED and SHOULD have a rating that reads -- "Adults Only” --
If retailers get caught selling to NON ADULTS, fines and punishment the same as selling booze and smokes to under age kids.
DONE AND DONE !!!!!!
Not that hard to figure out is it ??
Whatever happened to parental supervision and family time, in fact, what ever happened to common sense?
I have been playing video games all my life, from Pacman to Man Hunt, and never had the urge to go on a killing spree, I also managed to get a Master's degree and have had a girlfriend at all times since about 15 years of age. Guess I must be a fluke.
As long as I can buy any game I want I guess its ok, I just think this story hints at a new generation of kids who need more interaction with their parents. Violent movies and TV shows should be treated the same way, this is obviously a political move to define ones campaign by some issue or another. I would be much more concerned about my child watching the malarky on Real World or I Love New York rather than them playing Halo 3.
Good story mithril, too bad the majority of people on N4G don't care for the more cerebral stories, if it doesn't have BD, Halo or PS3 flame all over it, it doesn't get any attention.
We have nothing to worry about!
Look at the history of video games and politics. The video game industry never loses a case! With companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo at the helm...it's like the OJ trial EVERY DAY! Pay-offs might be needed, but they're worth it!
I'm all about not selling some games to minors. I would never in a million years want my 9 your old kid to play something like GTA or God of War. Because of that I can also fully understand where some people are coming from, but there is one underlining fact that keeps me from supporting this.
Its against the damm law. It goes against the 1st Amendment. I keep hearing the same argument saying that games are bad for our children. Whether this is or is not true does not matter. Hell how about this for logic, guns kill people, ban all of the guns in the U.S. I bet doing so would solve a lot of problems, but we can't do that. Why, because its against the law to do so. This is the same exact thing, though it is quite a bit less sever than gun ownership rights, its goes against the foundation of law for the U.S.
All these idiot politicians are doing is wasting tax payer money of useless laws that have/will continue to be held as unconstitutional. But because people would rather the government take care of their problems over them solving it for themselves, these laws will keep popping up. I swear some people don't deserve to be American's.
Violent movies and games don't shape your future anyway, if this were true I'd be some crazy, antisocial, criminal trying to chainsaw as many people as possible.
It's your parents and friends that shape your life, it's then YOUR decision to choose right or wrong.