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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.
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.
"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.
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?
"(and eventually we'll just have a PC)"
And then people will want something just for games, then game consoles will be made and the whole thing starts all over again.
First off, can you really see the big three (Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo) all agreeing on one specific design and goal? Why do you think the consoles are so different now? It's because people will always have different ideas and plans.
What happens when a group of people split and want to design a different system? What happens when there is a big split in this major game company? What happens when consumers are given low quality products and/or high priced products but have to deal with it because there is no other option?
The fact is, we will eventually go from the one system to multiple. That's the way it has been for every electronic device to date and that's the way it's going to stay.
Without competition everything goes under. Look at EA sports... they suck worse now than ever. I will just opt out of gaming altogether if this happens. I won't content specific consoles... the diversity is what drives creativity and that makes everyone try harder for our consumer dollars. With 1 platform the tools would be weaker and the games would be even more generic than they already are. 3rd party publishers would just toss garbage out of their asses like it's bean and cheese night. Atari tried the one console gig and damn near put us under.
1 console means high prices... Lousy software and lack of quality. Enjoy this era, folks. Cause if we do have a unified console next round gaming will never be the same.
To much growth in the industry for a 1 console future next gen.
Besides Sony, MS and Ninty are most definitley at least in the R&D phase of development for there next gen systems. Early prototypes are even possible at this point imo.
If anyone was to bow out it would be MS imo but they just started making profit from the gaming sector so thats no where near likely now.
I see all 3 companys in it for another generation after the current at least 4 sure.
Well...maybe...if the big three choose to share the licencing and control.
That's why unlikely. Nintendo and Sony had plenty of time to do that and Nintendo's pretty happy with their choice of going it alone with the DS and Wii.
Consoles are H/W built to last at least 5 years and games are optimized for the H/W over the lifespan.
PCs are H/W built to last at least 5 years ...HOWEVER... the Operating System(ie Windows) and software are not optimized for the hardware over the PC lifespan. Instead, software developers expect PC owners to upgrade their hardware.
This is why consoles will always be around and why there will never be just one console - especially with Microsoft in the console market.
I'm hoping that Sony moves away from consoles and instead focusses on developing a Game OS for PCs optimized for a CORE GAMING PC(fixed specs: eg. 1GB RAM, multicore -CPU, GPU with 256GB RAM). PC manufactures can then compete producing their own PLAYSTATION PC(of various shapes, sizes and prices with Sony controlling the Game OS licence) but the minimum specs are the same. Game developers can then focus on optimizing their games - based on the minimum H/W specs - for the PLAYSTATION PC.
Just like a console, a PLAYSTATION PC would be a one off cheap purchase that will last at least 5 years. Imaging dropping into your local computer shore and checking out the various PLAYSTATION PC and Laptops made by Compaq, Dell, Toshiba etc. You'll know it will play your old copy of KZ2 and the lastest version of GT 3 years on. Awesome.
Damn. If I only had the millions and industry clout, I'd do this myself. But I'm trusting Sony will someday do this. This would be revolutionary to the gaming industry and to PCs per se. Microsoft would be trembling in fear if sony were to do this. Sony's Game OS on the PC could challenge Windows easily as the main OS for a PC.
This is gaming.
will never happen
in the slightest cow jumping over a moon possibility that it does....PLEASE GOD DONT LET MICROSOFT DESIGN AND MAKE THE CONSOLE!
worst electronics manufacturer period!