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"Very, VERY, interesting news."

There are reports now in America, not rumours, reports, of them getting emailed, and having letters sent to them by Sony, asking them to remove ALL X-Box and Gamecube promotional adverising, or they will supply less PS2's to them.

"A manager of a Funcoland stated they were required to remove all X-Box pre-orders because Sony called and e-mailed to threaten PS2 hardware and software shipments will be shorted to the store if the store does not remove all pre-orders and marketing materials for X-Box and GameCube."

Software Etc and Babbages in America, also confirm this, and actually getting visited by Sony reps to make sure that they have actually conformed to their demands!

This is simple bullying. Sony are obviously very scared of the effect of these two consoles on them, and basically blackmailing stores into doing this sort of thing is disgusting.

Expect more news to follow during the next few weeks.

OH! poor little sony, are you running scared? And exactly what are you gonna do when these consoles are finally released?Send teams out to rob all the stores?ha ha ha!!!
And to the guy who made the comment about microsoft being the bully,if it weren't for windows this site and all the others you visit wouldn't exist!Windows unified computer OS.
And someone had to do it.get over it ps2 lover!

oh and Microsoft didnt BULLY to make windows what it is today YEAH RIGHT take internet explorer given away with windows whislt people had to pay for netscape, all companies are guilty of it Sony are just protecting there interest's like any other company would!

Actually, this has been rumoured for a bit, but only just come out.
Anyway, the way shops see it is that Microsoft will have their own adverts and stuff for the Xbox. Thus, they do not deter people from buying a PS2 (if they can get them!) because something "better" is coming out.

Still, it's against the law...Sony just haven't said anything officially.

SonicRav

everythings fair in war and videogames. gates stop you from buying games from certain developers on the ps2, sony stop you from buying the XboxX altogether.
just leaves everyone free to buy a gamecube.
no, wait, sony are trying to stop that aswell. damn. my argument goes down the drain. im gonna stick to eating nestle chocolate. no. wait... i cant do that either... damn. im sticking to music.

I want arsenal to have a different sponsor.

Sony paid EA not to include the Arsenal sponsor in their recent FIFA 2001 game, which of course would have been dreamcast.

By the way, I bet Sega keep the Arsenal sponsorship, but now take the Dreamcast name away, and use Sega only.

I must admit, I really wondered why Sony expected to shift 20 million consoles. With these monkeying antics, they deserve to sell only 2(million). Maybe not.

If Bill Gates hears of this he will send his alien soacecraft round to Sony's rep's HQ and take them away (probably to the Xbox marketing place)...

Ahem.

PSO is absolutely fantastic thank you!

Grix Thraves wrote:
> "Just because the other boys do it doesn't mean you have
> to..."


When was the last time you saw a Cadburys rep walk
> into a sweet shop and demand that they put up their posters and take
> down all others?

1992, High Street, Crawley, W. Sussex.
It was happening all over the country at that time.
The press labelled it 'The Chocolate Wars'.

"Anyway, not to dismiss or rubbish your post Grix, but let's not get all uptight about it until we know for sure that it is actually happening. There is always a chance, however unlikely it may seem, that it could all be a ruse by other 'interested parties' who wish to weaken Sony's current position."

My thoughts after posting the main topic...


And I know a lot of companies do this as well... but sharing the blame is not a way of taking the ease off Sony.

> "Just because the other boys do it doesn't mean you have
> to..."

Couldn't agree more.


> When was the last time you saw a Cadburys rep walk
> into a sweet shop and demand that they put up their posters and take
> down all others?

We have a Pepsi can dispenser at work, and the vending company are unable to put Coke in it, despite the fact that it does carry other products of the Coca Cola Company, such as Fanta.