The reason I believe Sony's exclusives can't sell as well as they should this gen.

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S.T.A.G.E. said:

Arius Dion said:
The worst thing an industry can do is blame the consumer for not buying their crap. Obviously Sony's games don't appeal to the masses. Every Sony console has been dominated by third party software, the problem with that is third parties aren't loyal in the least.

Its not as simple as 'get a mascot like Mario' a mascot alone isn't enough, Mario games don't sell simply because Mario is on the cover, but for decades Mario represented quality, especially to the old school gamer or those that grew up with Super Mario Bros.

Variety is the spice of life Uncharted or GoW are good to have, but they won't do much for expanding Sony's audience, GT used to be a game on Par with a Halo, but that is no longer the case. Maybe the games aren't selling as well as they should because the games aren't as good as they should be.

Also, the Mario bros cartoon wasn't made in order to make Mario big, Mario was big so the cartoon was made.

You make a good point about audience appeal, but Sony's exclusives have been among some of the highest quality exclusives this gen.

But good quality doesn't mean that it's mass market appealing, games like Okami are critically acclaimed but unless you talk to someone who has good amount of knowledge in video games chances are they haven’t heard of the game. This is Sony’s greatest weakness with their IP’s, they are generally aimed at one target audience (Young teens GoW, Killzone, Infamous and Uncharted more or less) and struggle to hold the attention of everyone else. One of the big exceptions would be the Ratchet and Clank Series which appeals to different age and sex demographics, but as we seen with the sales it’s too late to market the series the way you want it. The only franchise with enough following and demographic broadness at the moment is LBP, chances are if they did a show they would follow guidelines Viva Pinata’s show did. Outside of LBP you have Uncharted which works as a movie but not a TV show, Infamous comics really is the only area it could do well in, GoW......hentai (I can’t think of anything at all so hentai it is), Twisted Metal....hentai again, Sly could work as teen aimed tv show but needs to gain more popularity before doing so. Oh and Fat Princess Hardcore Porno it could work there’s a market for every kind of fetish...