"What you fail to understand and many people fail to grasp is that Sony has never, ever, ever,ever been about selling tons of one copy of one game and selling tons of systems associated with it. Sony and it's library of games are what sell systems.
Sony has never been a company with life-long mascots like Nintendo or Microsoft has been. Even when presented with the perfect opportunity to market a mascot (IE: Sackboy) they don't do it nearly as much as the other two."
So this is being don on purpose? Sony doesn't want a single game to sell too many copies? If Uncharted 3 suddenly sells 15 million copies and Nathan Drake becomes Sony's mascot, they will be pissed? Look. Look at the PS1. That console got over because of third parties. There's a reason why people consider Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear, Tekken, and Final Fantasy to be "Playstation Franchises". These were the reasons to own a PS1. Sure there were a few Sony franchises like Gran Turismo and....uh......hmm.....*mumbles gibberish under breath* but third party is where it was at. Look at the PS2. Games like Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, Metal Gear, Grand Theft Auto, and such were the reasons to own the consoles. Sure, there were a few Sony franchises like God of War, Ico, Ratchet and Clank, Gran Turismo, and such but once again, it was the third parties and their exclsivity/diversity that made that console. Sony was never the captain of their own ship. Hell, the PS2 launched without a single launch game from Sony!! What kind of shit is that?
The thing is, with the start of this gen, most of those third party franchises jumped ship. Their games became mult-plats. Sony WAS FORCED to step their game up. They did a hell of a job, too! Sony is pumping out some of the highest (if not THE highest) quality games on the market. Games like GoW3, Killzone 3, Unchated, and such are just plain incredible. It may not be Sony Computer Entertainment that makes a lot of them (Quantic Dream, Naughty Dog, and Guerilla Games kick ass!) but they're released under the Sony banner and their quality cannot be denied.
Sony is releasing some good stuff, these days. Maybe they saw that they could no longer count on third parties to be loyal this gen and put the pieces into place years ago to make them successful today--but don't pretend for one second that they're purposely not trying to create a mega-hit. I think they'd have been exstatic if Sack Boy was the next "Mario".
--And I don't even know why this thread is still going on. Everybody knows the reason the PS3 is doing so well is because of this guy:
