This is typical media hyping stuff by creating a pseudo controversy:
Which successor of Gothic will be the better one, the one done by the original developer or the one by the original publisher?
Even many discussions on this site fall for this nonsense.
(Edit: Simply see some of the preceding posts in this thread...)
Objectively the best would be, if we get two great games. There is simply no reason, why one of them mustbe "better" than the other one.
Its like: The Beatles are better then the Stones. - No, the Stones are better than the Beatles. - No....
Such artifical controversy has a good marketing effect for both "rivals", so in some cases this is even initiated by the industry behind the products (for music groups this is a well known marketing strategy).