Poison the industry or the fanbase? It seemed pretty murky back then too. Especially the whole Nintendo Playstation fiasco.

Eh, but it did. Nintendo staged it for SEGA to wind up in front of Senator Liberman running for Senator that year, that went over well. Afterwards Nintendo's Howard Lincoln wrote SEGA: "Roses are red, violets are blue, so you had a bad day, boo hoo hoo." This was over Mortal Kombat and violent video games. This is business, man. Business and politics play by the same rules.

If Microsoft had any pride or integrity and respect for the industry, the Major League Baseball deal would've never happened. Phil Spencer would've turned that down and said they don't play that way. Not only did Phil Spencer accept a game developed by a PlayStation Studio and didn't front the bill or help pay for any development of the game, but they gave PlayStation's game away for free to push their own agenda. It wasn't theirs to give away. MLB doesn't know anything about the game industry, but Microsoft and Xbox were so desperate for a quality game from a gaming titan, they accepted that quick, instead of turning it down with any form of honor so, Xbox had this coming.

Xbox could've gone to PlayStation and said: "Hey, Jim (or Scott or Herman) that was a pretty raw deal the MLB pulled you. This is what we'll do for you. If BluePoint wants to do the port, we're really not making any money on the original Gears Trilogy. We've made the money we're gonna make off of it. Ya know, we can't let ya have Gears 4 and Gears 5, because we've gotta have something, but we'll work a deal with you to put the original Gears Trilogy on PlayStation for a percentage of the profits because that's how we do." That would be Phil being human and actually practicing what he preaches. No loss to Xbox because they've made their money on Gears and it's sitting in a dusty closet now. But, nope. When it looks good to the press, to seem like the good guy, you wear many masks. Phil Spencer isn't at all what he appears. That's business and that's politics. Businessman and politicians are one in the same

Blasphemous olMyerslo. Ps3 left you wanting? Uncharted, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, The Last of Us, Infamous 1, Infamous 2, MGS 4, God of War 3, God of War Ascension, Heavy Rain, LittleBig Planet... Those are just some of the ones I played. There are more, including the 2 you named.

@Zeref PS gets more games than anyone because we buy games , have one console to make games for not 2 , and Sony actually makes good new IP each generation(for Games not on Nintendo PS5 has power). The only way MS competes is buying games already on Xbox which is super lame.

@master. It was actually just as bad. Remember Nintendo dissing sonys cd attachment for Nintendo which gave us playstation. 3do fiasco. Sega vs Nintendo there was lawsuits everywhere among consoles and devs alike which paved the way for console exclusives. It was dirty then as it is dirty now. Only difference now is you hear about it 24hrs a day thanks to the internet.