Speaking at the Develop 2014 press conference today, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Andrew House admitted that the Sony had rewritten their E3 2013 scripts after Microsoft announced their restrictive Xbox One DRM policies.
“It made us feel a little bit clearer about our message,” House said, “when a lot of the negativity was emerging around DRM issues and used games. I remember reading an article literally the weekend before E3 that was basically saying that this is the direction Microsoft was taking and that it was only a matter of time before Sony adopts the same approach. ”
“That sort of put me on the back foot and I went and re-wrote portions of my E3 presentation script that weekend and we re-crafted the presentation because there was now an onus on us not to be seen to be going down the same path.”
House made it clear that Sony never changed their policies at any time. They just changed what they wanted the focus of the presentation to be about. House also commented that they wanted to separate themselves from Microsoft’s attempt to market the Xbox One as an all-in-one entertainment machine and instead market the PlayStation 4 as a game console first.
Source: Eurogamer