Playstation 3 Demographic More Diverse Than Xbox 360 Demographic?

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Runa216 said:
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.)

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.

Yes that's true. I mean Halo, Call of Duty, and Left 4 Dead are all very different games, but when you learn how to play one of them, you know how to play them all. You can't exactly pick up God of War one day, and Assassin's Creed the next and Ratchet and Chank the third day and expect your skills to translate so easily.

I just consider Uncharted a shooter like Gears because most of the game, is about shooting. Yes there is a deeper story, but the platforming aspect isn't as big as some people make it out to be. You only really climb to get to the next shooting area, and most climbing areas (like the train level) heavily involve shooting. I don't see much of a difference from Uncharted 3 and Lost Planet 1 (a game everyone should consider a shooter). Uncharted is obviously better, especially campaign, but multiplayer they feel about the same (minus mechs).

MGS is similar to Splinter Cell. Stealth game first, shooter second.