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Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both (www.eurogamer.net)
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"I prefer the industry when you have two really strong competitors. You get better games, you get more games, and you get an industry riding a positive wave."

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[–] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Isn't Sony both a publisher and a platform? Nintendo, too.

Also, why is the quote there twice? Read both 2-3 times looking for one to say something different. Guess you got me, but I don't see the point.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    As a first-party platform, our job was almost not to be the biggest game publisher in the world. In fact, it was against our interest to start muscling our partners out of the pie. We weren't there to steal; I wasn't making games so I could steal market share from EA or steal market share from Activision. My job was to make games that made the pie bigger, and my opportunity was in growing it out.

    He isn't talking about being a publisher, its about being the biggest publisher.

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