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izaaz101 on 10 March 2009
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Jo21 said:
izaaz101 said:
With regards to new franchises, I believe that Sony is forced to create new franchises to survive, whereas Nintendo can take their time to create new ones, since they can reuse old ones. How can Nintendo reuse old ones, while Sony can't? Because Sony releases sequels far too soon.

Take, for example, the main platformer for both consoles: Mario and Ratchet. How often do you see a new Ratchet platformer? Pretty much every year. Mario usually only comes out once every generation.

With Ratchet coming out every year, the fans of Ratchet will begin to anticipate it less, and less and become less excited for each new release. At some point, Sony will deem it an unprofitable IP, and retire it, or sell it off (a la Crash). Nintendo doesn't have that problem, as the sequels for most of their series are a few years apart, which ensures that fans of the series are still excited for each and every new entry into the series, whether it be Mario, Zelda or Metroid.

I also don't understand why only "hardcore" franchises only count when looking at new franchises. I also don't see what the other 4 points have to do with game development directly.

 

it's better that way, we get better and fresher ideas each time and new characters, if sony were like nintendo crash would  be still around a marvelous game like LBP would have never happen, it was too risky.

as for nintendo

mario is getting stars, link still saving hyrule, and mario got a online mode now. but not really much have change in them.

 

gran turismo is bigger than Halo i am pretty sure you know that.

Perhaps you get better/fresher ideas............but a vast majority of PS3 fans have been excited for old franchises (MGS4, GTA4, FF13, GT5, etc.). It seems to me that the vast majority of PS3 fans don't really care about new and fresh. If Sony was like Nintendo, Crash might still be important in the video gaming world, rather than a shell of his former self. And you are suggesting that risks would not be taken if Sony was like Nintendo? Risks like........I dunno, the wii? Forget risky games like Wii Fit, and Wii Music.........the Wii, and the DS, are very large risks and fresh ideas that were taken by Nintendo.

Mario/Link has got as big a change in their successful formulas as the aforementioned games that excite PS3 fans.....so I don't know where you are going with that.

I don't know what your last point has to do with any of my points. If anything, you should dislike the "old and tired" Gran Turismo, since it's more in the vein of Nintendo like thinking, rather than Sony. In fact, you should be excited more for Motorstorm 2, than you are for GT5, since Motorstorm is a "new, fresh and better" franchise.