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Subject: Sony Speaks Out Against Microsoft
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ire.mark 7.09.11 - 12:37am
Last week sometime European Xbox Chief Chris Lewis spoke out about Microsofts publishing policy which makes it clear that they want no part of PSN hand-me-down titles for Xbox Live. Now during an interview with IndustryGamer SCE Americas senior vice-president of publisher relations Rob Dyer threw verbal shots right back at Chris Lewis, here are some of the more interesting quotes. * +

ire.mark 7.09.11 - 12:38am
while they might be protecting their consumers, what are they protecting them from? And what it looks like theyre protecting them from is the ability to see great content. * +

ire.mark 7.09.11 - 12:38am
And that, to me, is the problem were having right now is these threats and these serious issues that Microsoft is throwing at publishers its only going to dumb down what could potentially come out for a number of these games. And whether people are willing to stand up to Microsoft on this stuff or not is up to that publisher and they do it at their own risk. * +

ire.mark 7.09.11 - 12:38am
He then went on to reveal that Microsofts policy of not accepting pre PSN exclusives is not just hurting the indie companies. * +

ire.mark 7.09.11 - 12:39am
It first started on the smaller pubs, and we can talk about whats happened on XBL and the policy they have there that requires publishers to have a whole litany of things in order to get onto their network or they have to go through and be published by Xbox, by Microsoft, which essentially lets them dictate how long theyll be exclusive and whether or not they own the IP, etc, etc, Lewis said. * +

ire.mark 7.09.11 - 12:39am
Its now progressed to not just be these smaller indie pubs that are obviously very easy to kick around. Its moved up the food chain. Its gone to B and A level publishers to where Microsoft now demands Should content not be shipped simultaneously with competing platforms in all regions where the content is available, or should the content and features available on the Xbox 360 not be in parity * +

ire.mark 7.09.11 - 12:39am
with versions on competing platforms, then Microsoft reserves the right to not allow that content to be published for Xbox 360 or released on Xbox Live marketplace. * +

ire.mark 7.09.11 - 12:40am
So potentially any time weve gone out and negotiated exclusive content of things that weve announced at things like DPS or E3, publishers are getting the living cr*p kicked out of them by Microsoft because they are doing something for the consumer that is better on our platform than it might be perceived on theirs. * +

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