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Doubt it. If anything, the silence is related to "Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a fatal mistake." Microsoft haven't so far shown much of an ability to properly message around the Xbox One at this point.
Why confuse the issue by stepping in? Let Microsoft blunder around for a while and hope they step on a landmine, and then you have another piece of ammunition gifted to you. When you start flinging mud at everything you can find, eventually you're the boy who cried wolf and people stop taking you seriously.
Microsoft gave Sony a gift by shooting themselves in the dick at E3. What Sony needs to be concentrating on now is not returning the favor. Microsoft are in the position of needing to climb out of the hole they've dug. Sony have the luxury of focusing on the benefits of their own product going forward instead of needing to "carpet bomb" the opposition.
Bottom line: this "giving Sony more fuel" thing is a fart in a hot tropical breeze compared to the other things Microsoft have to deal with right now. Nobody's going to say "Well, I was going to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt after their 180, but now that they're 'copying Sony' on indie developers, fuck it; I'm just going to buy a PS4 instead."
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