Squilliam said:
Michael-5 said:
Squilliam said:
Michael-5 said:
I disagree on you with these franchises having the foundation to become "mega" because PS3 is already half-way through it's life. These franchises have had plenty of time to sell 10 million, but why haven't they? It's because PS3's audience is moe diverse then 360's audience. I mean PS3's best selling region is EMEAA and every country there is different.
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Actually the Wii audience is more diverse. Check out the top 15 by sales for all three:
http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=&publisher=&console=PS3&genre=&minSales=0&results=50&sort=Total
http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=&publisher=&console=X360&genre=&minSales=0&results=50&sort=Total
http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=&publisher=&console=Wii&genre=&minSales=0&results=50&sort=Total
Number of shooters:
Wii: 1
PS3: 7
Xbox 360: 7
Number of RPG/Adventure/Action adventure titles:
Wii: 1
PS3: 2
Xbox 360: 4
Number of Sandbox titles:
Wii: 0
PS3: 1
Xbox 360: 2
Number of music/dance/fitness titles:
Wii: 4
PS3: 0
Xbox 360: 1
Number of sports/sports compilations:
Wii: 4
PS3: 3
Xbox 360: 1
Number 2D/3D platformers:
Wii: 2
Sony: 1
Xbox 360: 0
Number of party titles:
Wii: 2
PS3: 0
Xbox 360: 0
Number of figher/brawl games:
Wii: 1
PS3: 0
Xbox 360: 0
Etc
Given the massive wad of shooters in the Xbox 360 and PS3 seller list you cannot really say that they have a statistically significant enough difference in userbase demographics to explain why Sony doesn't have the mega-hit games that Microsoft or Nintendo have achieved this generation especially in relation to the diversity of the Wii mega-hit library and audience between core / mainstrean and completely new comers to gaming.
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Well for Shooters, Sony makes Resistance, Uncharted, and Killzone. 3 different shooters competing for the same market share, and spliting the budget for Sony. MS just focused on Halo, and that was my reasoning for why Sony doesn't have a "mega" playstation franchise yet.
For diversity in the top 10, people mock MS all the time, but they really have put out a good portion of great exclusives, most of them have been very successful.
As for Nintendo, just make a good game, something scoring around 9/10, then stick on Wii --, or the name of a key mascot like Mario or Donkey Kong on the front, and your good. If you can't do that resort to a dance or fitness game.
Nintendo also really promoted the Wii well, and It's just awesome, nothing to debate about the Wii.
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3 different shooters, yes, but thats hardly a good reason why they don't have a mega franchise from their efforts.
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Well personally I think Sony came into this generation ill prepared. They made PS3 a Blu-Ray console well before Blu-Ray was the established form of media, they released PS2 exclusives up to 2007, and I think early PS3 exclusives were rushed. Lair was glitchy and short, Heavenly Sword was really short and had no replay, Resistance had no cinematics because Sony wanted it to be a launch title, and Motorstorm, although beautiful and fun, lacked variety in it's race type, tracks, and cars.
So thats 1 reason why I don't beleive Sony has a "mega" franchise. I think "mega" franchises need to establish themselves early within a generation, but the big, well polished PS3 games didn't start comming out until 2008, and even then I think Killzone was the first real shocking PS3 exclusive (to me at least). A lot of the bigger PS3 IP's took time to develop, GT5 still has yet to be released, Killzone 2 wasn't released until 2009, LBP was a 2008 title, and God of War was this year. Except for Uncharted, and Resistance, none of the big PS3 IP's came out until 2008. To be fair Nintendo didn't have much until 2009, but the success of Wii is another issue.
So thats my second reason, my third reason is that Sony has a lot more competition this generation. Were there any "mega" 10 million plus sellers on the Gamecube or X-Box 1? N64 only had a couple itself. PS3 was the first Sony platform with real attractive compeditors. N64, Cube, and X-Box were all great consoles, but they failed to attract the medias attention. PS3 this generation attacted the least attention, and most of it was negative at the start (high price, is blu-ray the future, etc).
My 4th reason is 3 competing shooters, and my 5th reason is that this generation, the PS3 has done soo poorly with respect to past PS consoles (only recently PS3 consoles have started making a profit), that Sony simply has not allowed a budget for a "mega" franchise other then GT5.
I guess thats my proper response to this thread, everything else is just getting off topic.
