| tingyu said: Its because Sony used to be comfortable with 3rd party, FFVII defined Playstation 1, GTA series defined Playstation 2 (anybody still remembers the debate of San Andreas vs Halo 2 back in the days? Good times indeed). GranTurismo was a surprise hit from Polyphony that wasn't planned to be the pinacle of Sony consoles back then, 3rd paty games define all Playstations. God of War and Socom were big on PS2, but it was still FFX, MGS and GTA series that makes PS2 the most popular home console ever. Just like when Pokemon and Brain Age Nintendo 1st party game defined DS, Monster Hunter another 3rd party game define PSP. We can only hope Monster Hunter wont play a jump ship to 3DS, which its big brother already jump from PS3 to Wii. Yet PS3 has the roughest launch ever in console history thanks to $599!!! by Kutaragi. All the third parties jump ship and become cross platform, no more FF and GTA exlusive, it was likes doomsday back than and PS3 was laughed at as the Blu-ray player that also play games. Sony realised its mistake of depending on third party so much, and start to build up its 1st party line up which would never end up on other consoles, and buying good studios here and there (Media Molecule, That Game Company, etc). Though none of them can reach the level of Halo/Gran Turismo yet because the effort comes TOO LATE to be realised by general public, which already syncronize the Xbox brand as hardcore gaming after the explosion of Gears of War as the best looking shooter ever while Sony side got nothing to show back then except Ok looking Resistance. The hardcore gamers even endure the 'Things Break' nightmare as only a small hindrance of enjoying the best gaming experience everyone in town is talking about. It just shows that its easy to lose ur fans in this business and so hard to turn them back towards u even after u realise ur mistakes and start to pump out gems like Uncharted 2, cause they if never touch the game, they will never know how good it is and wont miss it. But now as PS3 is building its momentum and pump up exclusive gems after gems from its 1st party studio, Xbox 360 becomes a Halo box since most of its 'exclusive' third party jump ship just like what they did to PS3 at the start of the gen. Even the house which build Halo is leaving Microsoft which makes me scratch my head what the heck M$ is thinking about. The tide is slowly turning back into favor of PS3, Sony learned its lesson, at a very dear price. Its time for M$ to learn its lesson. The moral of the story is love ur wife more, the girls flirting with u might be hot like hell, but they will jump ship anytime a dude with a bigger car comes by, or worse case, cross-platforming between you and the other guy. |
It's not like Sony did nothing. Sony made Crash Bandicoot, closest thing they ever had to a mascot. PS2, how about Shadow of the freakin' Colossus. Gran Turismo, SOCOM, Jak and Daxter, Twisted Metal, Wipeout, God of war, it goes on. They've only failed if sales are the measure of quality, and nothing less than ten million is a success. Fortunately, we don't live in that world. Playstation has always been about variety, moreso than Nintendo and Microsoft.
If you told Nintendo they couldn't make a Mario or Zelda game for 5-6 years, they would be f*cked three ways from Sunday. If you told Sony no GT or LBP or God of War for 5-6 years, they'd be good and dandy. Because they make new ip's constantly. Sony is quality.
