Uncle Phil calls Sony SLIMY!!!!!!

Uncle Phil speaking the truth.

Of course we know it's true as Sony has been the most slimiest of them all. With charging their base gamers multiple times to re buy games and shady practices with content

https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/12/ex-playstation-boss-responds-slimy-platform-dig-xboxs-phil-spencer-21018329/

They're not known worldwide as Phony, the one and only for nuttin ya know. lol :P

Sony fans are fuming right now, and the “slimiest” thing Sony can manage is a multiplat LEGO game being kept off Xbox.

I think we’ll be fine.

That was taken out of context. He was referring to the "slimy" practice that MS did with COD back in the 360 days. Gotta love the internet.

@kvallyx: Are you saying Sony hasn't shown slimy practices over the years?

It is expected to be kept off of Xbox because it is a Sony game but it is also releasing day one on three platforms.😂

Does Sony still do, if you buy the PS5 version, you get the PS4 and Vita version too! I remember when they did that. Now that was pretty sweet for them Sony players. I haven't read the article yet, but I shall see what Phil has spoken. :)

‘I want to give you the choice on how you play your games and who you play with. And not try to do slimy platform things to force you to do what I want you to do. Give the players choice.’

What I find interesting is that the one who wrote the article has said that some have speculated that it's a jab with Sony's deal with the CoD franchise, but my mind immediately went to Hell Divers 2 and Sony's attempt to lock players into making a PSN account.

@mycatismilk: Its is directed at Sony. Sony has been locking down content and time content with COD for about a decade. I always find that shit unacceptable because gamers on other platforms are paying the same amount for a second class experience. Yet, the gaming media remained silent on the issue just like many other things that are not in the best interests of consumers or the industry.

Phil is part of the fanboy wars! He should make a SW account.

Oh, it's absolutely a jab at Sony. And if anyone at Sony is weeping over this, then they need to humble themselves and remember all of their jabs, most notably the jabs of when Xbox attempted DRM when the XBONE was revealed. LOL

I doubt there is weeping. I wager it doesn't even register. Phil's commentary is like a low hum for them and is barely noticeable. This is more fan service. MS wants to take the "for the goodness of the industry " approach to gain favor, I hope they know what they are signing up to.

Yeah leave the smack talk to the professionals:

I don't believe there is either. Heck, they showed the response to a former Sony rep with a gif of a guy laughing at Phil's comment. :)

Didn't that backfire with some Xbox players when everyone started speculating that Xbox was going multiplatform? Because XB gave the impression that their everyones friend?

@mycatismilk: From indirect sources it did backfire. But like everything else on the net, folks moved onto something else.

Oh they have. But Phil was discussing the history of Xbox and COD back on the 360, not the PS lol. But Sony fanboys will make it about the PlayStation because they need to troll hard somehow.

@Pedro: Most of the gaming media are Cows and have been cleary biased in favor of PlayStation. Even here on GS over the years we've seen how reviews of games have always favored PlayStation games and it's obvious most of the reviewers are dedicated loyal Cows and PlayStation gamers.

Easy to say when you have the money as a company to just buy your way out of trouble. Every big company is slimy in some regards from time to time, including ms.

If MS was the console sales leader, and Gamepass had 75 million subs, then you know MS would be just as slimy as Sony, EA, or whatever big corp.

MS's whole strategy is to throw it all against the wall for cheap and see what sticks, because they have an endless supply of spaghetti (Money) to do so. It doesn't matter if it works. It's windows Phone, Zune, Surface, Skype, all over again

Holier than thou Phil Spencer, give me a break.

@WitIsWisdom: The problem with Sony is they have been forced to be slimy for many years becuase the reality is Sony has been struggling as a company for many years outside of the PlayStation division. Sony has had little success in their other divisions. The once dominate electronic hardware corp Sony has been on life support for many years now it's only been the PlayStation division that has literally kept Sony afloat for many years now. If PlayStation goes under or starts to struggle badly Sony will be in real trouble and likely have to break up and sell off most of the company and be a small non player at that point.

Well would you look at that, you created an alt to break the no contact rule.😂 You couldn't help yourself.🤭

Shawn Layden has responded to what Phil said. What Layden said about Phil was funny.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/06/ex-ps5-exec-shawn-layden-isnt-holding-back-his-feelings-on-xbox

I'm kinda feeling bad for this guy. He's been making threads non stop

Buying the biggest publishers in the world to force the biggest group of gamers in the world to your own ecosystem isn't slimy at all.

I also agree with this Shawn Layden guy. As long as MS have bought ActiBlizz, all other shitty business practices made by Sony are ok.

These CEOs are just the best.

Maybe you should read post #3 in the comments section, better yet this Shawn should also, oops 🤣

Slimy isn't the word I'd use to describe Sony PlayStation...Last place sums them up perfectly.

Slimy like buying two publishers and trying to keep the games exclusive... until senior management went over Phil's head and made them multiplat since the hardware sold like shit. Karma's a bitch LOL

@Litchie: How are gamers being forced into Xbox ecosystem?

Sony kind of forced Xbox into their slimy ways by how they kept so many games off the Xbox One. Xbox wouldn't have started buying all these studios if that didn't happen. I don't blame Xbox as it would have only gotten worse for them. It was a last resort type of thing. With that said, I'm still against all these acquisitions. Xbox are still keeping some games off PS5, and Sony are still paying 3rd party devs to keep games off Xbox. Both are as slimy as each other.

By buying ActiBlizzKingWhatever, their gamers had no choice but to become part of Microsoft's ecosystem. Or am I wrong?

Phil is too nice. Giving day one games to every platform and stated more games are being released multiplat. That's all I needed to hear

@blamix: My threads are GOLD

@worlds_apart:If you're looking at gaming history, almost every game used to be on multiple platforms from multiple vendors, pre-NES. Nintendo leveraged the market position of the NES to get third parties to enter into contracts in order to publish on the system, and locked out those who would not enter into contracts with hardware security that attempted to prevent unapproved developers from running games. These contracts included exclusivity clauses.

The idea of the third-party exclusive really came into its own during the 8-bit era, mainly because Nintendo forced it to. To publish games on the ultra-popular Nintendo Entertainment System, licensees had to agree to a strict non-compete clause that guaranteed those games would be exclusive to Nintendo's system for two years. Most developers were more than willing to sign on the dotted line to get access to the NES' tens of millions of players, squeezing out external game development resources for upstart challengers like the Sega Master System and Atari 7200.

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In order to compete with Nintendo, other platforms inevitably ended up with exclusive games, because Nintendo would then not allow these games to come to their platforms since they were published elsewhere. Namco would be publishing games on the PC Engine and Genesis but not on Nintendo platforms for a period of time, for example.

Nintendo ended up developing negative relationships with some publishers such as Square, and famously there wasn't a Final Fantasy game on a Nintendo system for a long time due to Nintendo.

From then on, having game exclusivity was seen as a marketing tool for the platform, and it was incorporated into the business model.

@R4gn4r0k: Sony considered the Move a success? :o

I don't see how. MS hasn't change the dynamics for Activision or Blizzard games. You will still be playing on your preferred platform and there is no shifting of ecosystem. That is the current state. Feel free to correct me if I am missing something.

@girlusocrazy: Thanks for the info. I had no idea Nintendo were that slimy. Excluding Nintendo, I will say between Sony and MS, things have gotten better this gen. I hope most of the games shown in the recent showcase appear on all platforms, especially the Bethesda games as they were always multi platform.