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[Ozymandias]

Full story.

On the one hand, it was just a stupid rumor. It wouldn't have hurt Kotaku not to report it.

On the other hand, it was just a stupid rumor. It wouldn't have hurt Sony to just say "No comment" and then make their big announcement in a week anyway.

Effectively, they confirmed the rumor (which was already reported), then got bad PR for something that should've been good PR: Live + Connect24 = potentially the best online console service EVAR.

Just because a stupid gaming blog did what they do: post baseless rumors.

[J_Saunders]

What if this was just an idea that Sony was toying with but were not sure if they actually wanted to take this idea and put it into production? What if in releasing this story, Kotaku has now allowed the public to pressure Sony into going further into devolopment with a product that Sony does not think they will make a profit on? If this is the case, Kotaku may have cost Sony alot of money. I do not really agree with Sony's actions, and do believe that journalists should publish everything that they can within a  limits. However, journalists should not publish something if it may harm someone financially, physically, or their reputation.

On the other hand, maybe PS3 owners will be able to have a little more fun thanks to this rumor! Wish those things were not so expensive...

[Ozymandias]

Err...

I think that Sony doing anything the public wants for once would be a good thing.

[Storm Rider]

I'm not sure I buy that this feature would be any good anyway. Remember right before the PS3 hit and everyone was saying that their online service would be just as good as Live, only free? Then when it actually hit we found out that it was in fact some gigantic clusterfuck that most games don't even bother with.

In short, if this feature does exist, then I'm not ready to automatically proclaim it the best online infrastructure ever. Kotaku took a risk publishing that story, and they paid for it. I'm not suggesting Sony was necessarily in the right, but Kotaku knew the danger before they got into it, and therefore I'm not particularly sympathetic towards them.

I'm more irritated with Sony snatching the features from other gamemakers yet again rather than coming up with any ideas of their own. First they do a half-assed motion sensing ripoff for the Sixaxis, and now this.

[Dimmukane]

Apparently Sony and Kotaku made up in a lengthy phone call.  Saw that at slashdot.

[Johnny C]

Honestly is everyone at Sony now just taking hard drugs or what?

[ScrambledGregs]

Yeah, Sony and Kotaku made up.

Anyway, Sony is basically where Nintendo was circa 1996. They have had two extremely successful systems and have become incredibly cocky. All the same insanity and promises you heard from Hiroshi Yamauchi back in the day are now coming from Ken Kutaragi. Seriously, that guy is a human factory of batshit insanity.

[IronOxide]

The fact of the matter is that Sony asked them not to do something that they did anyways. (I'm ignoring the fact that they made up at the moment) They explicitly asked Kotaku not to report the rumor that they did, and whether or not there was any reason to stop them from reporting the particular story, Sony was in the tough position of either responding to them or becoming the bloggers' bitches, which is a position that they do not want to be in.