Our once favorite Sony exec has joined the dark forces of Microsoft. It’s disappointing, but I can’t blame him for making a move for his own career.

The real betrayal of the year has been Sony’s current decision to mandate an all-Microsoft stack of development tools across their new PlayStation Suite program and try to snuff out any form of non-Microsoft game development activity. The last bastion of hope for developers who want some shred of choice in their tool sets is Android, and to a lesser extent iOS.