MrPickles on 19 December 2007
| Zero Hero said: MS HAS to have the 3rd parties. It doesn't have enough in house studios to survive. Doesn't Sony have like 15 studios under its belt? As far as the 360 being THE Madden machine... They won this year, Madden 09 will be the same or better for the PS3 next year when the "new" game engine is used. EA has yet to port a game that utilizes any SPEs. Thus PS3 owners get inferior ports. It's not that the PS3 just couldn't do it. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7598043&postcount=1 |
He's not saying that the PS3 can't handle Madden as well as or better than the 360. Madden games looked much better on the original Xbox than PS2, and yet far more casuals played Madden on PS2. He's saying that they've positioned the 360 as the 'cool' console to play Madden on.
Does anyone know why Nintendo was so strict about third-parties on N64? IMO they would still have the monopoly in gaming (for better or for worse) if they didn't have this 'big 5' policy in which only Rare, Namco, Konami, Capcom, and THQ could develop on N64, in addition to themselves.
I'm also going to add one strength that MS had until recently, which shouldn't be ignored: Peter Moore
