The reason why PS2 was loved by game companies

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S.T.A.G.E. said:

shanbcn said:

After looking at best selling PS2 games, i reliased how happy companies must have been last gen because they didn't need 90+ on metacritic to sell games. Here is some facts.

Need for Speed 1 and 2 sold 6.5 million each, can you imagine NFS selling this amount even on both 360 and PS3?

Crash Bandicoot sold 5 million despite horrible reviews, and now many people didn't know when it released this gen.

Spiderman sold 4.33 million.

Simpsons: Hit and Run sold 4.24 million.

And the list is huge with 200+ million sellers.

 

I think metacritic and gamerankings have become to important this gen and with rising cost many dev just don't want to take risks with new IPs.

 

Reasons the PS2 sold well:

- Came out a year ahead of the Xbox

- Was $100 cheaper straight out of the gate

- Was cheaper to develop for

- Had the best 3rd party games under heavy lockdown.

- Had timed exclusivity under heavy lockdown.

 

Hmmm....Sounds very similar to the Xbox 360 wouldn't you think? Except the Xbox 360 came out $200 cheaper than the PS3. The gameplan sounds strikingly similar.

 

You're forgetting two HUGE factors:

-Had the best first/second party studios

-Was made by Sony

Why is it that despite the 360's game library being equal or superior to the PS3's, being half the price, having better online, the PS3 comes close in sales?

1) Blu-ray player

2) Future Potential

3) Made by Sony

4) People prefer the games library

I personally got it for all four of those.

The PS2 still has better games than any other console by a mile. You had a free choice of several games from EVERY genre which were excellent, even more which were great. Sure, it didn't have great 'hardware' or 'additional features' but in the end, it is the games that make the console, and no console can rival the PS2 in games.

What on earth happened to all of those PS2 games? I'm going to look at the Metacritic Top Ten PS2 games (ignore my metacritic boycott for the sake of convenience)

1) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 Series went completely downhill after the 6th Gen

2) GTA 3 Still around in the form of GTA4, arguably not as good

3) Resident Evil 4 Sequel coming early next year

4) MGS2: Sons of Liberty MGS4 out, awesome

5) GTA: San Andreas Another GTA

6) GTA: Vice City Holy hell, ANOTHER GTA

7) GT3: A-Spec Sequel late next year

8) Madden NFL 2003 Series became worse

9) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 Another Tony Hawk

10) Devil May Cry Series went downhill

So, we have 7 franchises there.

3 went downhill

2 have great sequels

2 have sequels to come next year.

Interesting. So a maximum of 4/7 of those can actually work this gen...