I figured out why oldschool gamers dislike Sony

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KungKras said:

bouzane said:

KungKras said:

bouzane said:

KungKras said:

What Ronster said.

Sony has caused great harm to gaming.

Blaming Sony for Nintendo's and Sega's mistakes would be like blaming Microsoft and Nintendo for the (relative) failure of the PS3. Additionally, their game development has certainly contributed much to gaming, far more than Microsoft or Apple.

Even ignoring Nintendo and Sega (who's philosophy of consoles, I would much rather have seen victorious, and which was unfairly competed against with moneyhatting and loss-lead.) Sony's stated mission of taking over the living room, and disrupting PC gaming caused a migration of PC developers to consoles, which became even worse when MS entered to counter Sony.

Sony is the reason PC gaming isn't as great as it deserves to be, and that is unforgivable. Under Nintendo leadership, console and PC gaming were separate and both awesome. Under Sony, PC gaming is turning into a gaming ghetto and console gaming is trying to be hollywood. They ruined everything.

Sony never forced developers (except Guerilla Games) to dumb down and port their games, that was the decision of the publishers. Additionally, placing any blame on Sony for the effect Microsoft's Xbox has had on PC gaming is ludicrous.

Sony courted third parties since day one, they got a lot of western PC devs to make PS1 games, it was an effective strategy, that just happened to cause gaming to suck for me. If Sony never made a console, there would be no Xbox, and I would have preferred it that way, gaming went the wrong direction because Sony decided to make consoles.

So much twisted hate and logic for an electronics gaming device here it's scary.