MS Calls PS3 Online Plans Plagiarism

Unsurprisingly, Microsoft doesn't seem sold on Sony's approach to taking the PlayStation 3 online.

From the beginning, says Microsoft's Chris Lewis. Xbox Live was considered a core part of the Xbox experience - an "engine", if you want. Sony, on the other hand, is approaching it like car air-conditioning - once a luxury, now a standard component. But no matter how far Sony has come in its online plans, Microsoft is not going to let them forget that it was there first.

"I'm flattered that they've followed our clear direction," Lewis told UK site Eurogamer. "Plagiarism is a good thing - that in itself isn't such a problem, it's what the market wants. But we've known that's what the market wanted all along."

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Lewis said he was glad to see that Sony was starting to catch up to Microsoft, though he didn't seem sold on the strategy.

"I think the service is still hazy in my view in terms of how it's really going to work for the consumer," he said. "How the pricing is going to work still to me seems very unclear."

Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games