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MS: Sony has failed to deliver on promises

Twisted | May 09, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 Wii

"The days of Sony snowing the consumers and the press are over," says Aaron Greenberg

They say that Sony hasn't kept numerous promises. They talked about Killzone 2 at E3 three years ago, what it would look like, and now it will ship four years later. They will have Gears of War and Gears of War two release before they can get Killzone up.

Greenberg says that the Xbox 360 is leading this gaming generation, with a better game library, and a better online community.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg says "the days of Sony snowing the consumers and the press are over," that the company has failed to deliver on numerous promises, and challenges Sony's latest European PS3 sales figures.

"We have been fighting Sony's promises from the day we entered the market," Greenberg told Destructoid. "Three years ago at E3 they showed what PS3 games would supposedly look like with the Killzone 2 video, that we are now learning will ship four years later. That means that we will have shipped Gears of War and Gears of War 2 before they can even get Killzone out the door.

"Think back to GDC 2007 when Sony promised to leap ahead in online with the Sony Home unveil. Here we are two years later and multiple delays for a product that appears to have little to no buzz. Where are the achievements? The friends list integration across all games? Where is the long-promised video store? Where are all the other products using and networking with their CELL chip? How come Blu-ray did not result in better games? What happened with Sixaxis and rumble? Where is the complete 1080p game library we were promised? If Blu-ray as they said would be such a catalyst to PS3 console sales, then why have PS3 sales over the past couple of months not seen any lift since the format victory?"

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reaver11 | May 10, 2008

Sure what the article may be true, but I'm sure MS has had similar occurances. None I can think of, but they don't need to go rummaging in someone elses garbage to get the consumer to buy more of their product.
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  Gamesta100 | May 10, 2008
  
  Here's my reply to the article on another site:
  
  Like they aren't guilty of at least some of those things.
  
  Anyone ever see the fake pic of what Amped looked like?
  
  What about the Armored Core vid for the XBox showing how the graphics looked? The graphics ended up looking nowhere near as good.
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Final Blade | May 10, 2008

_{I wouldn't talk so fast MS. I especially remember you claiming that you would have Halo 3 released before PS3 launch to take away the thunder and yet you failed on that promise as well. Or specifically Bill Gates.

They're hypocrites they too have failed on promises as the one i stated as well.
Now sure Sony may have had issues with developing on the games or Stuff like Home but that could be make it up to quality.

However i wouldn't pass it by Sony saying the same thing against MS so i guess "all is fair and love is war" Applies here.}
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Supernouva | May 10, 2008

When did MS ever claim that Halo 3 would be released by the PS3's launch? Besides, even if they "promised" Halo 3 by then and didn't deliver, we still got Gears of War then.
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Seeker X | May 10, 2008

That's actually pretty much true. I think Sony *bleep*ed up when they thought everything was just going to work out without a hitch when they promised all of that.

Though if there's anyone that's gonna point fingers at Sony, it shouldn't be Microsoft...mostly because while Sony obviously shot themselves in the foot, Microsoft made the HUGE mistake of developing a bit of a faulty console, which hardware failure rates reached some big proportions. Made ANOTHER mistake of denying and LYING about failure statistics where it reached the point that they had to renew warranties to EVERYONE that owned a 360...AND only because they were EXPOSED in doing so, not because of their good nature that they voluntarily renewed warranties.

Bottom line, a lot of people know Sony has messed up, but Microsoft is hardly in a position to blame anybody for company faults.
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  Cdemon | May 10, 2008
  
  Sony's been down that road before, though, with both the PS1 and PS2. Not to the exact level of the X360, but enough to where a class action lawsuit was filed.
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Bale Fire | May 10, 2008

Hmm I will be the first to admit Sony weren't at the top of there game last year and that a fair few things didn't come out when they said they should but Microsoft are hardly the company to take the moral high ground here. I seem to remember them denying the Red Ring of Death ever existed?
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  Slumpy monkey | May 10, 2008
  
  They never denied it existed. They put it in as a way of showing hardwar falier.
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Donnelly | May 10, 2008

I love how every time MS bring up a fault with the PS3 or Wii PS3 fans go "omg. RROD. WAAAAY "
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labowl | May 10, 2008

God Microsoft are always at sony about the littlest things. At the end of the day Killzone is gonna be finished properly and is gonna be a true next gen title which is why its taking longer than expected because they want it to be perfect unlike microsoft who can release yearly updates of pap such as gears of war which was totally over-rated. And i can guaruntee that gow2 is gonna be just the same as number 1 albeit with just an expansion of the story line in which case they should have included in the first one as it was way too short.
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  Donnelly | May 10, 2008
  
  GoW was in no way over rated.
  
  It's one of the best games released this generation.
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    labowl | May 10, 2008
    
    Well me and im sure a few other people think it is. At first when it came out it was a fad like nintendo wii or halo, everyone went out and bought. But it was nothing special, yeah ok the graphics were good but the gameplay offered little. The 3rd person controlls were nothing we hadnt seen before as we could do it in one the of the 007 games made by EA which weren't "GLITCHY" like GOW is as it was rushed to get a head start on sony. Single player you could complete in under 4 hours and thats pushing it and other and than achievment whores wenting to get the full achievment list there was no reason to play through again. Online wasnt up to much either it was pick up and play....oh getting shot...hide behind a wall for 10 seconds...oh dead... then you would wait 10 minutes for the next round. Only way in which it became remotley good was when they introduced annex and that wasn't great as it was a lacluster multiplayer experience to begin with as it was 4 on 4. And you cant really say thats a fan boy opinion cos i have the game and have completed single player once through. Go on then give me minus 5. *rolls eyes*
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      TwilightPrince | May 10, 2008
      
      Glitchy? Gears wasn't glitchy at all, nor was it rushed. I've played through the campaign many times, mainly because of the co-op.
      
      Face it, Gears is one of the best games of next-gen.
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      Donnelly | May 10, 2008
      
      I love how you say it's only 4 hours long but you die constantly and you have to wait 10 minutes between fights.
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      labowl | May 11, 2008
      
      Read what i put stupid, 10 mins between fights and its 4 hours long for single player.
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doylie | May 10, 2008

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Greenberg says that the Xbox 360 is leading this gaming generation, with a better game library, and a better online community.
Well the Xbox360 has been out somewhat 3 years...
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  Slumpy monkey | May 10, 2008
  
  Yes, So its leading then isnt it.....
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    labowl | May 10, 2008
    
    Technically its not leading. If your in the UK and have a look on teletext 805 on itv they state that ps3 is catching up with xbox and is onnly a million behind weighing in at 6 million across europe. It also states that it has sold in the same way Ps2 did in the same time and they wonder if the war will end up the same.
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      Donnelly | May 10, 2008
      
      You say the PS3 is one million sales behind the 360? But the 360 isn't in the lead out of the two?
      
      lol.
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Mikstaslaya | May 10, 2008

Every console fails to deliver some promises, but I agree that the PS3 really failed to deliver thier's.

Sony promised us a console that will obliterate the competition and completely own in sales...Sadly, we got the opposite. Currently, the PS3 is having trouble competing with the Wii/360, in hardware sales, software sales, and library of 1st party/3rd party games.
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  Final Blade | May 11, 2008
  
  _{The only thing they failed was the "PS3 will dominate the competition when launched". You also have to take in account that PS3 is new hardware compared to the 360, and it being out longer, everyone knew that technology.
  
  Who knows maybe at the end of this year and start of the next Sony would be starting to make Massive games to where its a must buy, and climb back in. Sony is running a marathon not Sprinting the 50 yard dash.}
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MJ12 L0rD | May 11, 2008

All this is is a back and forth battle of words between Microsoft and Sony. Its getting quite boring to be honest. Why don't they stop insulting their competition and beat them with production plz.