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IMU1808 on 30 May 2011
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IamAwsome said:
Ail said:

Nintendo franchise sell better but they do not cover as many gaming genres.

Aside from the titles with Wii in their names Nintendo has failed to develop new IP this gen too, they made nice improvement on old recipes but have failed to come up with new ones...( and the issue with the Wii games is aside from the Nintendo name on the box they are not really IP you can copyright which has led to a drove of copies ( heck even Move Sport Champions and Kinect adventures are just copies).)

Sony lost many third party exclusives but did a very nice job developing successfull new IPs covering a wide range of genres ( Uncharted, LBP, Heavy Rain, ResistanceFoM to name a few).

Microsoft has a few IPs that are very successfull, the issue is that they cater mostly to the same crowd.( and CoD success has made it so that the fact that Sony not having a big FPS isn't that much an issue).

While I do agree that Nintendo needs to make some new IPs, I don't agree that Sony's IPs cover more gaming genres. The only genre that Sony has that Nintendo doesn't have is FPS, and Sports sims. Nintendo has several genres that Sony doesn't have like fighting games, RTS, and RPGs. I think that overall, Nintendo's games cover more genres then Sony's games.


SONY has many RPG IP. Most of them just haven't been touched this gen. They've created 2 new one but one was very niche (Demon's Souls) and the other just didn't have a decent first game (White Knight Chronicles). RTS, I don't know. Not my genre. Fighting games, in the past SONY had some strong partner ship with Namco which is why Tekken was only found on PS and arcades. At the begining of the gen, Namco and SONY also made a brand new studio together but that partner ship isn't what it used to be and all info on that studio just disappeared.