| Zipper said: Sony has been in the console business for 15 year. They've created 3 amazing consoles, two of them being amazingly popular and one the best selling home console in the world. They own the most amazing developers, I believe today Sony is only second to Nintendo in quality when it comes to first party titles. They created dozens franchises, some of them more popular than others yet only one of them - Gran Turismo, has been extremely popular and with Gran Turismo 5 releasing soon, we will see if the franchise is still popular as it was before. I'm trying to think why, in 15 years, they couldn't make at least one extremely popular franchise among the dozens they've created? Even back in the PS2 era, Sony created some of the best titles on the system, but they still weren't crazy popular Titles that are critically acclaimed - Uncharted 2, God of War 3, Killzone 2 - Why do they fail to reach their sales potential? It obvious the potential is there Take Uncharted 2 for example. It the most critically acclaimed of the bunch, it has multiplayer, co-op and I can't take of a game that is more easy to market - yet it failed to make an impact and dropped of the NPD for good after one month of sales which weren't extremely good anyway Why do titles like Gears of War (for some reason the eastiest title to compare to Uncharted) do so much better? Why do titles like Killzone 2 which had a huge amount of hype and belongs to the most popular genre on consoles today failed to sell the millions everyone thought it will? It an interesting topic I think we should discuss |
What would you call "crazy popular" from the competitors? I think you could name everything Mario, but that's vintage strong. Then this generation Nintendo has the "Wii" series, which is something that uses the brand to sell software to casuals.
Microsoft has the huge Halo franchise, and Gears of War. Oh, that's it (in the crazy popular department that is) Everything else is third party. Same thing with many stuff from Nintendo. This is not surprising, you know? Third parties are numerous and they are good at their job, create games. No wonder the majority of "crazy popular" games outside of Nintendo's own stuff are all third party games. Just to name a few (titles and franchises) that came out of the PlayStation days of glory : Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, Ridge Racer, Tekken, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Samurai Warriors...that enough crazy popular to you?
