Everything Microsoft seemed to be offering was behind a paywall, They seemed to try to sell many policies that offered allot more benefit to them than it did to the consumer.
My idea behind my analogy is that, I would rather give a company money on the basis of a simple message they are trying to send out (sony) and not one that changes direction based on pre-orders etc, that make no mistake if the internet wasnt around like it is today for its backlash, all their policies would still exist.
I don't think you can use the price tag of the PS3 as an example of non-gamer scenetric, or evil, its not like they were trying to obtain massive profits it was down to the fact that their costs where so high, at 699, compare that to a modern cell phone, its not that far away, its not ideal and they made an investment that needed paying for as the cell was an expensive chip to produce/R+D.
The amount of 1st party developers owned are clear, they are about games and investing in that. Compare that to MS and its a pisstake - I for one wish they would open more instead of buying exclusives to better promote their system.
The second job quote, was a ridiculous, I would put more pressure on the spokesman though, im sure he got a nice meeting with the execs. As for the hacking, it happens, they didn't intentionally try to screw anyone.
The difference between both companies is intent. You can draw reasonably good arguments from past policies or money grabbing attempts to see who was trying to set up a licence, or a shadow tax on most things you do.
From what I have seen from sony they have set a very reasonable price for better hardware (screw kinect
) Have a pay wall for PsPlus and charge for games. Simple, thats always been the message.
-ps I could also go into the whole transister/fluffy cloud and random mouth farts that MS sometimes say with their tech stuff aswell but I dont want to come accross as overly negative. I personally would like X1 to do well for competition... if they got rid of kinect, or atleast allowed it to be switched off!! (would love that) plus show some gaming appetite by opening more studios, I would be all over it, at the minute most their exclusives seem like timed and could be on the more powerful alternative eventually anyway.