Sony Courts Minecraft Creator Notch (Markus Persson). Gives Him Golden-Colored PS1 As Invitation To E3 2013

Notch is one lucky devil!

Throwing down the gauntlets, Sony has actively courted Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson by inviting the sole-man who developed one of Xbox Live’s best-selling games to E3 2013 as a special VIP… And in the process gave him an incredible gift. An exclusive golden-colored PS1 system!

How FREAKIN’ COOL is THAT!

Here is his tweet where @notch showed off a pic of the Gold PS1:
“Got a vip invitation to an e3 event from sony in the form of a gold colored psone. Wow. :D”

So. Awesome.

This is only the latest shot fired in the brewing all-out-war between the PS4 and the XboxOne. It is no secret that notch and other Indie developers have been increasingly dissatisfied with how Microsoft has treated them, and treated Indie development as a whole, on the Xbox 360 platform. Sony has taken advantage of this in a big way, and this goes far to prove just how much Sony is attempting to court Indie developers and make them feel like the special stars they are.

Now of course, no one knows if this means that Notch is going to stake the stage at E3 2013 during Sony’s Press Conference and announce something exclusive for the PlayStation 4. Of course, no one would be surprised IN THE LEAST if exactly that happens now would we!

 

PS4 Used Games Won’t Be Restricted At All Rumor Says. Following XboxOne Microsoft Backlash By Consumers

PS4 used games won’t be restricted at all… So says the rumor. The extreme XboxOne Used Games backlash Microsoft is facing over it’s XboxOne system and the fact that Microsoft wants to restructure and restrict how used games for the system are bought and sold has changed Sony’s direction on Used Games. Now Sony has reportedly completely scrapped a similar system that also would have seen used games restricted on the PS4 in a similar manner to Microsoft’s XboxOne.

However following all of the negative heat and ill-will that Microsoft has built-up since the reveal of the XboxOne, Sony has reportedly completely changed course on the Used Games issue and will fully embrace being the anti-Microsoft. A decision that the company had still been mulling over up-until-now.

Take all this with a grain of salt however, as the rumor is via a post by a NeoGAF user, albeit one with a great track record of rightly predicting Sony’s next move. Does he have some insider information? He says he does, and stated the following:

NeoGAF forum post user “famousmortimer“,
“The gist of it is that Sony is listening to the backlash that Microsoft is getting and they are basing decisions off of this. I can say, for sure, that the past week’s PR nightmare for MS has not been lost on Sony and they, in fact, do have a used game ‘solution’ working and have been going back and forth for months on whether to use it. This past week is pushing them strongly into ‘Yeah, let’s not use that’ category. And Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida in particular is very open to feedback.”

This is a very interest development, and could sight the first true “bullet heard around the world” in the next-gen console war. We’ll have to wait only a short while until E3 2013 on June 11-13 to find out whether this rumor regarding the PS4 and used games is true or not.