geddesmond2 said:
RolStoppable said:
Sony doesn't do amazing things first, that's why. Their games usually consist of ideas borrowed from somewhere else and mixed together. It's not surprising that Uncharted was compared to Tomb Raider and Gears of War a lot. Why did Gears of War do so much better? Because it redefined its genre and ever since then other TPS try to mimic its gameplay. God of War followed Devil May Cry. Killzone followed Halo.
Why didn't LittleBigPlanet or Heavy Rain become mega blockbusters? Because they are not amazing to most gamers. The thing that's new in LBP is the extensive level editor, but most gamers rather play than create, so they don't care. Heavy Rain is more of an interactive movie and that's only amazing to a small subset of gamers.
Of course, this explanation works in reverse as well and that's why Gran Turismo is so big while it's imitators never come close in sales. Forza would be the most popular one and hardly anyone remembers Konami's Enthusia Professional Racing anymore.
If you want to hit it big then you either have to do something first or something that hasn't been done in a long time by anyone else.
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Yeah I know because the COD series was never done before so thats why it sells so much on each consol. They were the first people to do a FPS and the Halo series was so original. Like there was never Sci fi FPS's before the Halo franchise either and thats why Halo is a hugh success. Its funny how theres 100 other FPS games out there yet some people only compare 360 vs PS3 and think the 360 games the original game ignoring all the other games with the same simularities.
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You can't seem to grasp it can you? Halo(not to mention they've added in things almost no console fps has) redefined FPSes and made them a dominating force on the consoles. The mega franchises were either the first done right or they redefined their genre. As good as UC2 was it didn't do either one of those it did what other games did very well and wrapped it in a pretty package with a great story but that's not redefining a genre. Microsoft also popularized Western RPGs on consoles though that only became huge this gen it has it's roots on the Xbox1.
