Playstation 3 Demographic More Diverse Than Xbox 360 Demographic?

[Runa216]

Don't get me wrong, some games are EASY to classify...Call of Duty is a First Person Shooter. MAdden is a sports game. Gran Turismo is a racing game. Nobody's denying that, but the reason I'm so insistent that PS3 users are more versatile in their gaming is because...well...I don't think 'action/adventure' should be a genre. Frankly, it encompasses entirely too many different gameplay styles to really justify it. Generally speaking "action/adventure" games tend to be like Ratchet and Clank or Uncharted or Metal Gear Solid or Grand Theft Auto, they have so much variety in them that it's hard to say those four have much in common, aside from the fact that you shoot bad guys in all of them (well, and good guys in Grand Theft Auto.)

Ratchet has action, Adventure, platforming, shooting, puzzling, racing, strategy, sports, SHMUP, and RPG elements.
Grand Theft Auto has Action, Adventure, Shooting, Racing, Sports, and Brawler elements
Uncharted has Action, Adventure, Shooting, Puzzling, and platforming elements.
Metal Gear Solid has Action, Adventure, Shooting, Puzzling, Fighting, stealth, and RPG elements.

Though it could be argued that 90% of ALL Games have "Action and adventure". Call of Duty has Action and Adventure elements (especially in Modern Warfare, the original). you could argue that, although mario is a platformer through, it also has elements of action and adventure.

I just think "Action/Adventure" is entirely too broad a genre to be accurately comparing to something as concise as other genres. Hell, I'd ALMOST argue that "Shooter" is too broad a genre in and of itself, since most modern games have shooting elements in them. Space Invaders was a shooter. Contra was a shooter. PixelJunk Shooter was a friggin shooter.