Spedfrom on 18 November 2011
| binary solo said: Well as a person who really, really, really detests the dominance of FPS on consoles this generation, and who doesn't really like FPS as a genre the Xbox's role in popularising FPS on console deserves not praise but vilification. Interestingly, I don't think FPS has done a lot for consoles. Wii is the best selling console this gen and FPS is just about the least popular genre on that system. Aside from CoD FPS is only somewhat popular on PS3, best selling FPS on PS3 after CoD is Resistance FoM at a respectable, but not massive 3.86 million. Though soon to be usurped by BF3. Even on 360 you can only really say CoD and Halo have had wild success. I would also guess that died in the wool PC FPS fans feel like FPS popularisation on console has held back PC FPS innovation somewhat. Indirectly though, what FPS moving from PC to console has done is drag other formerly PC only developers to console: Bioware, Bethesda... So I will give Xbox some credit for indirectly bringing non-FPS game developers to console through popularising FPS on console. I am very happy to have been able to play Dragon Age:Origins and Mass Effect 2 on console. WRPGs were OK for what they were on PS2, but true party-based WRPGs was a notable deficit. |
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