ReignofSparrows
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I am editing this for down the road, since Gies and others have dismissed it with ad hominems. I guess quoting what he said makes me angry. Anyway, I provided as much context as I could and wish to point out that it actually obfuscates the point he was trying to make. He is saying Sony has good messaging and no games. Since I am focusing on the no games aspect, it doesn't add anything of value to insert the messaging stuff. The only reason that would be of value is if you want to attack the strawman that nothing good was said of Sony on the podcast or something similar. I never said that. Regardless, all the context is now there.
The setup to the following is that Microsoft has a messaging problem and Sony doesn't, whereas Sony has no games and Microsoft does not have that problem:
Gies: "Sony has a message that people wanna get behind and fucking no games. And yes, all the indies in the world are releasing on that system, but it's starting to look like Steam in that there is a bunch of fucking junk being announced for PS4 everyday." [He talks about a game that he thinks looks like junk on the PS4]
Gallegos: "I don't see junk everyday"
Gies: "I get the press releases, still. There is garbage announced for that system everyday."[He then says the topic of small teams releasing on every platform is another conversation altogether, thus why I omitted it. It isn't germane to his point that these releases do not solve Sony's no games problem].
"Anyway, Sony doesn't have a first party lineup announced, and I don't think that they've got much in the pipeline for this year or early next year, but they've got a message people like. Whereas Microsoft is lining up a shitload of software and is still really working on messaging and sentiment."
Gallegos: "What software is Microsoft lining up that's announced?"
Gies: "Ah, well, there's stuff that's not announced yet. There's still Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break, ah, this Fable game. [Some uncertainty about the Swery game's release from Sessler]. So there's that, and there's a bunch of other stuff that they are rumored to be working on this year and next year."
Gallegos: "Right so . . . Microsoft doesn't have anything more at this moment."
Gies: "No, because we just talked about 3 or 4 games, and meanwhile Sony's got the Order." [He then says that the Forza might come out this year, which I left out. Sessler then brings up Driveclub]. "So that's 4 or 5 exclusives for Microsoft to 2 for Sony."
