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Sony's Latest Shot at Microsoft Comes on a T-Shirt You Can't Get

Kotaku - Last night, Sony held an indie showcase event at Neumo's, a Seattle music venue that epitomized underground cool. PlayStation exec Adam Boyes took the stage to re-affirm the company's commitment to working with indies and third-party partners and announced a handful of new games. Whiles most of the games looked intriguing, it was Boyes' t-shirt that might have been the sassiest thing in the spotlight last night.

zeal0us3907d ago

Shots been firing since E3. Sadly MS has shot itself more times than Sony has shot them.

ThatCanadianGuy5143907d ago

Check out this custom shirt MS gave to their xbox fans at Gamescom.Shortly after the news of restricted features and only 13 countries.
http://oi39.tinypic.com/fla...

WrAiTh Sp3cTr33907d ago

I wish Sony would fire a shot to make me want to buy their console now instead of years down the road.

corvusmd3906d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

good job letting everyone know you have no idea what you're talking about up front

NatureOfLogic3906d ago

@ WrAiTh, Let the tears flow.

MariaHelFutura3906d ago

The big difference. Microsoft trolled Sony all last gen and lost. Sony like everyone knows they are about to dominate and payback is a b!tch. PS2 mode engaged.

WrAiTh Sp3cTr33906d ago

What tears? Lol, I won't be missing anything...trust me.

UltimateMaster3906d ago

Remind me how this is intentional?
With all the shirts I have, I could take offence If I were to take stage of a PS event by wearing a Green Shirt.
It's just stupid, it ain't offensive at all.
The biggest massacre was the dreaded awful DRM policies and Microsoft inflicted that upon themselves, not Sony.

gaffyh3906d ago

It's just a little joke, nothing like the actual shots that were fired when Andrew House was on stage at GamesCom. It's also quite a subtle joke as well tbh, most people won't even get it.

CocoWolfie3906d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

arguably enough sony deserves them, i couldnt recommend steering clear of microsofts console over sonys any more.. it just seems like a bad taste in your month, fan boying aside, to choose microsofts xbox you know? :/

No_Limit3906d ago

Shot through the heart and your to late, you gave love, a bad name. [Guitar Solo]

slimeybrainboy3906d ago

Sony should cool it with the war, but this is a funny t-shirt. It's very subtle, you wouldnt immediately look and say OMG SHOTS FIRED! But it does give a little statement and I genuinely think Token Indie Logo is a brilliant name for a indie studio. The logo is good.

People do seem to forget that Noone was talking indies pre PS4, now everyone is trying to roll out pro-indie policies ASAP to look good.

CGI-Quality3906d ago

LOL, absolutely perfect response! :D

FlunkinMonkey3906d ago

@WrAiTh

"What tears? Lol, I won't be missing anything...trust me."

I trust you about as much as I trust Microsoft.

LordDhampire3906d ago

Microsofts the best player on sonys team

PeaSFor3906d ago

@WrAiTh Sp3cTr3

want more butter with your butthurt?

andrewsqual3906d ago

@WrAiTh Sp3cTr3 Lol no, just no. How about we won't be missing anything? The last 3 years of Xbox mean anything to you???
http://i.imgur.com/MuHoPWq....

I would show a PC pic too link but Half Life 2 came out 9 years ago.

YNWA963906d ago

You know, I love Sony... They are just awesome...

2cents3906d ago

lol... Did any of you even read the full article for microsofts response?

'I'm going to get one that says "AAA, remember it?"

HaHa!

andibandit3906d ago

ok great now if only Sony would shoot off some AAA game news instead

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come_bom3907d ago (Edited 3907d ago )

Sony being arrogant again... maybe they should worry about their lackluster exclusives launch lineup.

Actually both Sony and Microsoft should worry about their lackluster exclusives launch lineup. If it wasn't for 3rd party games...

pr0t0typeknuckles3907d ago

Or maybe its them having fun with the competition you know the trash talking these companies have been doing for years.

redwin3906d ago

They are just a bunch of bullies, do you ever remember MS being this bad with them ? I don't , all I remember is the cord and cans, and that was because Sony said that no body wants to talk when they are playing.

Jury3906d ago

They are being arrogant to their competition, not to their fan base... So it's all good

AxeCain3906d ago

Quality over quantity
+ PS4 launch titles imo look great. Preference.

tarbis3906d ago

Yes, they're very very arrogant. They need to have more class like how Microsoft showed their class on PS3's launch.
http://files.xboxic.com/xbo...

grimmweisse3906d ago

Yes, because MS has always remained classy towards their competitors. All the negativity regarding the xbox one is self inflicted. Don't think for one second if the roles were reversed MS wouldn't be taking shots at Sony. They pretty took shots a Sony when the PS3 launched.

kenshiro1003906d ago

Cry me a freaking river. Arrogance? Really? Microsoft put themselves in the spotlight, not Sony.

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Bzone243906d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

Wow, I don't know how they'll ever recover from this petty shot. I guess they have to pump the indies since that is mostly what they have. Ouyastation4 is gonna be great. Too bad I already have a phone for these games.

WrAiTh Sp3cTr33906d ago

They're fans are great advertising for them, that I give them.

dcj05243906d ago

When is that coming out? Is that like a new ouya? Hope it's still $100. Ouya's not really my thing. I'll just use the $100 to buy the Playstation 4.

andrewsqual3906d ago

Or buy a PS4 and a Ouya for cheaper than a Xbone with required play and charge kit and Xbox Live Gold to do pretty much ANYTHING on it.

And Xbone is like an Apple device, over expensive and locked down to proprietary crap on every level but with the complete restricted DRM.

SmokingMonkey3906d ago

Apple took shots at Microsoft for YEARS!

This is nothing new, it's just funny as hell to watch.

Microsoft just keeps feeding Sony writer's.

ZHZ903906d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

Xbox fanboys/girls are laughable. :D

FamilyGuy3906d ago

Love that song

The shirt is hilarious after you see why he really wore it.

The indie games keep surprising me!
A lot of them look REALLY COOL, dust force mentioned in this article
http://kotaku.com/5874936/s...

andibandit3906d ago

think ill keep my old console and play indie games, since thats what the next generation is all about.

BABY-JEDI3906d ago

Are you the Hiphopgamer? Just asking. Shots fired LoL

showtimefolks3906d ago

when one company messes up as much as MS has with xbo one than competition will take advantage of that

early on greenburg and major nelson were taking cheap shots at sone/ps3 so why are people surprised now when the roles have been reversed

did anyone honestly think sony will mess up again and won't learn anything from ps3? MS let the success of xbox 360 get to their heads and now are paying the price for it

Heisenburger3906d ago

Am I the only grown man that giggled when he saw "sassiest"?

Tee hee

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HolyDuck3907d ago

This is getting a little boring now.

Everything Sony does, is a jab at MS.

Everything MS does is a 180.

Can we just let each other side alone, and let the exclusives, sales and console features do the talking.

Gimmemorebubblez3907d ago (Edited 3907d ago )

Business is business even if it comes in the form of "little jabs."

And this is not showing arrogance , this is just poking a little fun at Phil Spencer and his suit+t-shirt combo.

OC_MurphysLaw3907d ago

Agreed. Kinda amazed this kinda stuff is still happening and such a focus.

gaelic_laoch3907d ago

Leave xbone alone!!!!!!!

M$ are big boys and should be well able to take some banter on the chin otherwise they are in the wrong business!

buynit3907d ago

Yea... untill ms does it then its sacrilage.

gaelic_laoch3907d ago

@ buynit

Ahhh lighten up! It is just a bit of arse slapping in the showers!

HarryMasonHerpderp3906d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

Lmao I don't know what sort of showers you've been to dude!

ziggurcat3907d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

you know what's boring? you going into every thread, and saying how boring it's getting.

we get it, you love MS...

edit: then why did you approve it if you find all of this stuff "boring"?

HolyDuck3907d ago

Clearly don't love MS, I actually approved this article, shows how much I LOVE MS.

Get over yourself, someone can like two opposing things you know.

MariaHelFutura3906d ago

The talking is over. The PS4 is virtually better at everything. It's just a bit overwhelming for some to handle, so they're stuck in denial unable to comprehend whats happening.

TheGreatGamer3906d ago

None of it is boring. Sony are making gamers laugh with their jabs and MS are making people laugh for how spineless they're being

Hicken3906d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

... so you approved it for the sake of complaining about articles just like this?

And yeah, your comments pretty much say you DO love Microsoft.

You're not making any sense.

Edit: Your comments display a rather fervent love of MS and dislike of Sony(and overall indifference to Nintendo, but that's neither here nor there). Anyway.

If it's not something you think should be promoted here- and it's clear by your comment that you do not- then you should not have approved it. You're not obligated to approve it, you know; you could even have failed it for being "Lame."

But you didn't.

HolyDuck3906d ago

I approved it because that's pretty much the whole approval process.

You approve something because it's as it's stated, it's news, an opinion piece etc.

I wasn't aware that I wasn't allowed to comment on things I approved? Oh wait... I can.

My comments do not say I love MS, please show me all the posts I've made that are completely sided with Microsoft and completely bash Sony, please. I'm begging for someone to do it because I've asked several times and no ones gotten back to me?

As for being an MS lover, there is literally no PS4 news coming out of the woodwork therefore I mainly have to comment on Xbox ones etc. So please, guide me to the complete sony bashing I've done because I'm yet to have seen it, good day.

ziggurcat3906d ago

@ holyduck:

surely you can see the hypocrisy in complaining about how boring it's all getting, and being one of the people to have approved the article... it doesn't make any sense...

*comes across article about sony getting a jab in at MS's expense*

*rolls eyes* "*sigh*... not this **** again..."

*approves article*

the logic:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/...

kenshiro1003906d ago

Holy Duck, if these articles are boring, then don't approve them. You have no right to complain, sorry.

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney3906d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

Stop being a xbox fanny!! PS4 is a better value!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

More power, extra controller, extra game, camera + better devs lol

Same price.

BABY-JEDI3906d ago

You should put a smile on that face. Cheer up
; )

TheFamous13906d ago

It's marketing and companies do this all the time (i.e. BMW vs Audi) - they are selling similar products so they have to show why they are different.

punisher993906d ago

@HolyDuck:

"Can we just let each other side alone, and let the exclusives, sales and console features do the talking."

No. Listen, microsoft did this to themselves when they tried to put strict drm restrictions on physical media. A huge no no in my opinion. The world needs to continue to let them know how wrong they were so they wont try it again.

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Mikelarry3907d ago (Edited 3907d ago )

trust kotaku to report silly console war news rather than important happenings at pax

pyramidshead3906d ago (Edited 3906d ago )

Amen. The dude can't wear a simple t-shirt now! It also makes Sony arrogant as well apparently. SMH.

andibandit3906d ago

someone scratches his nose....

Shots Fired!!!

Xsilver3907d ago

gotta love the randomness of it all

iamnsuperman3907d ago (Edited 3907d ago )

Wow steady on Sony :/ /s

I personally do not get the whole blazer and T-shirt combination. It looks crap and not right. If you are wearing a blazer wear a flipping shirt underneath. It is like the poor man's posh thing. It isn't right

mushroomwig3906d ago

'A poor mans posh thing'

Right, these billion dollar company executives are obviously strapped for cash.

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More Job Losses At Xbox, “There’s More To Come”: Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".

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Sonic188113h ago(Edited 13h ago)

There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.

sagapo10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

I don’t understand what you’re saying. Xbox IS microsoft so there’s no “paying back “.
And MS gross profit in 2023 was over 140 billion dollars so forget your 2 decades.

Unless you mean the money MS invested in Xbox (acquisitions included) and the time it will take for xbox as a brand to gain that money back on it’s own, then yeah, that could take a while.

romulus233h ago

The better term to use might be return on investment, xbox is simply a division of Microsoft one that MS can easily do away with if profit margins are not met. So in that regard he's right, if xbox isn't showing the expected return on investment the higher ups are expecting than it's unlikely Microsoft will acquire any other studios any time soon, especially if they are spending billions buying developers just to shut them down in the end.

SonyStyled9h ago

“There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future”

No bro, there do be is for Microsoft not acquiring for what is now if not what it be is 😂

Ms3tjt7h ago

“ Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. ”

Aka

“I don’t know how business works”

Domkakop5h ago

You might need to take a good hard look in the mirror

Ms3tjt5h ago

Yeah I forgot Xbox is separate from Microsoft and Xbox borrowed the 69bn from Microsoft, and Microsoft didn’t get COD, Candy crush etc in return 😂😂👏

jwillj2k413h ago

There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.

franwex12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Microsoft has been doing this for years. They simply want the IPs. Look at Nokia. Look at Skype. This time it simply expanded to games. Gaming is not as important to Microsoft’s executives as it was to the founders too. Bill Gates was willing to sell the og Xbox at a loss. Steve Balmer approved the red ring of death fiasco. This CEO isn’t really a gamer.

-Foxtrot11h ago

Maybe it's time though to put a stop to it and use a big giant like Microsoft as a huge example to the rest of these big companies.

There has to be a line drawn somewhere.

People like the FTC and the like went against Microsoft yet their Actvision deal was still allowed to go through yet look what's happened...it's not even Acitivisions studios aswell, it's Bethesdas.

RNTody12h ago

Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.

MrDead1h ago

ID software, the makers of Doom and Wolfenstein that have been with us since 1991 could be gone and MS will keep the IPs.

I hope some of these studios can buy their freedom from MS otherwise this is going to be even more devastating for the industry and gamers.

anast11h ago

Good thing the bosses of all those small studios made their money.

glenn197911h ago

they cant do it right now they will get burned

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Microsoft Opening Xbox Mobile Game Store in July

The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."

Jin_Sakai2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

“Bond adds that they will start on the web”

This will go nowhere.

Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.

MrDead2d ago

The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.

The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.

XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Good luck with this even it might not succeed.

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga1d 14h ago (Edited 1d 14h ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow2d ago

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.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo1821d 12h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie1d 3h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow1d 2h ago (Edited 1d 2h ago )

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.

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Hereandthere18h ago

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.

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Notellin23h ago

"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.

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Hereandthere18h ago

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.

ApocalypseShadow4h ago

Lying to yourself is unbecoming.

Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.

Hereandthere18h ago

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.

ApocalypseShadow4h ago

At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.

Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.

OtterX1d 15h ago

"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.

RNTody1d 15h ago (Edited 1d 15h ago )

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?

Inverno1d 14h ago

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.

Sheppard7t31d 12h ago

How did Sony kill the series?

Inverno1d 12h ago

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.

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fsfsxii23h ago

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.

Inverno22h ago

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?

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