enrageorange said:
There are a few first person action games, but the vast majority of them are third person. Some FPS like halo are played in third person for a large portion of the game so I guess they aren't exclusively first person. Saying a fps is just being in first person mode while shooting is like saying an action game is just killing all the enemies on the screen mostly in third person mode. Both genres have a lot more to them. Games like borderlands are heavily focused on collecting loot and leveling up. Games like Bioshock are heavily focused on exploring and using plasmids(basically magic) which I probably used more than guns in my playthrough. Around half of halo's campaign is played in third person. In portal you don't even shoot at anyone, you just solve puzzles in fp mode with a gun. Left 4 Dead isn't about defeating your enemy, its about trying to escape them and get to saftey, and melee weapons are a very important part of the game. While you can basically sum up most of the gameplay in fps games as shooting in first person, there is actually a lot of variaty in that than most people would think. Also I'm am sincerely sorry if it seems like I took your percentages. It just took me a while to make the charts so I didn't see your post when I clicked submit, if I had seen it I would have just used your percents and given you credit. I'm glad both our percentages are very close to each other though because I did some rounding and didn't double check but comparing numbers to yours it seems they are very accurate.
Also @ enditall727, the numbers are the number of games sold from each genre, divided by the total number of games sold for each console. So for example the light green for the 360 chart tells you what percent of all software sold for the 360 is action games.
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I realized you didn't take my percentages, yours were a little different. Also you posted around ten minutes after I did, and your length of post was too big to be written in such a short amount of time. You also have simulation genre on the pie chart which I skipped because it didn't seem that important.
Halo is only played in tps mode when driving a vehicle right? Or when using a heavy gun? Cause I remember playing most of halo 3 in first person. Portal should be in puzzle genre from what I have heard of it.
According to the info we have gathered both the systems favour fps, shooter, and action. For a system to be completely 100% diverse it needs to be equally distributed across the genres, i.e. 9.09% (or in your case a little less). If you do the average of the deviation from that percentage you will realize that PS3 actually deviates less. Action games being 24% is a good thing because it also consists of some shooters like uncharted so if you change uncharted to tps (which you can, thereby proving my point that action games are indeed more diverse than fps since an fps game is an action game but the opposite is not true), than the percentage for shooters on the PS3 rises.
Also according to VGchartz CoD + Halo on the 360 itself equals into 71.3 million, around 57 % of the fps sales on the 360 and around 90 % of the total fps sales on the PS3. When 57% of the fps sales are from just 2 franchises, you know that there isn't much diversity inside the genre and even if it is there its not selling. Ironically both halo and call of duty are known for their multi-player.
[ On Ps3, call of duty franchise has sold 40% of the fps sales. The racer genre in which we have seen 2 GTs is only a little ahead of the 360 in terms of popularity and in terms of sales its behind it. ]
On PS3 the same cannot be said for the action genre, where the only game that has sold a ton is GTA ( 8+ million ). Other games like god of war, Uncharted, infamous, red dead redemption, assassin's creed 2 etc sum up the audience on the PS3.
