Funny trend I noticed this gen...

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c0rd said:

I think this can be explained.

Many franchises associated to the PS are not actually owned by Sony. While many did start or get popular on Playstation, most aren't owned by them (FF, KH, MH, DMC, RE, MGS, Tekken, etc etc). It can't be denied that the PS brand had a vast majority of the biggest franchises exclusive to Sony systems, simply because they sold so much.

Now that the tides have turned, people want to play these games on their preferred system. With so many "PS games" going multiplat (or jumping ship altogether), GoW3 somehow gets mixed in there... people are just getting spoiled with the amount of franchises that have turned, and are either greedy, or are ignorant to the fact Sony owns the IP. The latter is actually understandable, a few years ago I couldn't tell you what IP's Sony or Microsoft owns (in fact people still get things mixed up here).

I understand your point. All the series you mentioned have pretty much left  except for mgs4. Thing is, we buy consoles for the games we want right? They've chosen 360s for whatever reasons. Most say it's library is vastly superior to the ps3's. Then why the endless interest in ps3 games especially from non-ps3 owners? I don't remeber ps2 owners making such a fuss over stuff like morrowind last gen.

For more proof, check out GT. FFvXIII's trailer has more view and comments than the real FFXIII. Never has an FF spin-off gotten more attention than the original.

I remember that when  original trailers for both games, ffxiii had 2x as many views as ffvXIII. Suddenly, versus is now more popular when GT is mostly American and we all know how far behind ps3 is over here.