E3: Sony 'Leaps And Bounds Ahead' Of Microsoft

[Roma]

Torillian said:

Roma said:

Yes I meant level 5

Well looking up Little big planet it also says that Sony is the developer :P

Well if you pay for exclusives your not creating them which was my point in my first post. Of course they own the IPs but they still bought them and they were not originally created by Sony

Now I am not saying Nintendo creates every exclusive IP that comes to their consoles but they sure have more in house developed games than what Sony has

I guess I would ask you what the difference is between Sony paying for exclusives and Nintendo hiring someone who then makes the exclusive.  Sony funded the IP and was instrumental in its being made, why is it that hiring a development team doesn't count towards creating something while Nintendo hiring Miyamoto does?  Miyamoto isn't the head of Nintendo, he was hired by them just as Media Molecule and Naughty Dog were hired by Sony.  If Miyamoto had already proven himself as a developer and had a team made up would he no longer count as being part of Nintendo?  Why is it hiring singular people makes them part of a company, but hiring groups does not?

My thoughts: you're making the rules so that Nintendo has an obvious and unending advantage because they started in the industry back when there really weren't established teams out there to hire, and since they hired singular people instead of established teams they are creating something while Sony is just funding something that would have been with or without them.  But who's to say that LittleBigPlanet or Wipeout would be what they are today without Sony's influence, or that Miyamoto never would have made Donkey Kong in his basement if he didn't work for Nintendo.  Heck, even Nintendo does the team hiring thing nowadays because that's how it's done, I'm sure they would have done the same if they could have back when it all got started.

My post was in response to what Xen said before that Nintendo barely make any new IPs (not counting those they bought exclusive rights for). Well buying new IPs is not making them yourself and that is my point which I point out for the second time now.

Of course there is a difference when you go out to hire teams to make a game that might already be in development but sought a publisher and Sony showed interest in the games or maybe they had the idea and paid a developer to make it.

Who said anything about Miyamoto being the head of Nintendo?

Yes companies hire people to build teams that make games :P

No I am not making rules to make Nintendo seem like the winner here. Buying new companies or exclusive rights to a game is different than making the game yourself. A company that buys other developers is either out of ideas themselves or really like what they see in a game owned by another developer.

 

Shadow of the colossus and Ico are great games made in house or that is what I think anyway.

 

Anywho