Sony's shooter gambit--success or failure?

[jman8]

De85 said:

jman8 said:

De85 said:
I just find it slightly ironic that last year the 306 was belittled for having nothing but shooters, but that now, with sole exception of LBP, the games you hear PS3 fans hyping up are all shooters. Resistance 2, Killzone 2, SOCOM: Confrontation, MAG, etc... My how the tables have turned.

Those are the games you're choosing to hype. Sony fans have actually been hyping LittleBigPlanet, Infamous, Valkyria Chronicles, God of War, Gran Turismo, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, Final Fantasy XIII, and Final Fantasy Versus XIII as well.

Edit: I didn't even mention the hugely hyped PSN titles like Flower, Pixeljunk Eden, and Fat Princess.

 

First off, I mentioned LBP as the exception, but in my own, anecdotal experience all the rest of those games you mentioned take a backseat whenever people talk about Sony's upcoming games.  I know those other games exist, but they aren't talked about nearly as much.

 

Well, anecdotally, there's an active Motorstorm discussion going on right now on these very forums. It's also rare that we don't have a thread showing new screen shots of FFXIII or FFvXIII nearly weekly. There's also an "Official" Valkyria Chronicles hype thread that has over 200 posts. There's a Kratos vs Link discussion going on right now. Oh and I forgot to mention Heavy Rain, which has been on every PS fanboy hype list to ever reach the interwebs, and whatever Team Ico is working on.

And just b/c you mentioned LBP, doesn't mean its impact is minimized even though that was your goal. Without LBP, all Sony would have is a highly derivative line-up this fall with Resistance, Motorstorm, and Socom. It's like launch all over again. But you rarely see people complain about that and it's not b/c this site is PS biased. It's b/c LBP is such an innovative title that is taking videogames to such new territory that you would look silly to call out Sony for not being original. This "sole" game is what is differentiating the system from all the others. This "sole" game is what is feeding the perception that Sony is ahead of the curve, while MS is just trying to match the Playstations' previous catalogues.