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

[Grandia]

Turkish said:

Grandia said:
Sonys problem is that their Games are not separate enaugh from other games, they made to many games only as response to already existing succesfull Games from other companies. Uncharted was a response to the success of Gears of War, Resistance and Killzone was response to Halo, Little big Planet Karting and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale are vast respones to Super Smash Brother and Mario Kart. Sony only copies from other companies they never really developed some individual IPs. That is their biggest probelm you never will have the same success with a cheap copie as with an original. Sony rather should try finally develop some individual Games than always only copie other ideas.

Funny, to me it was always Sony who made the original IP's. Uncharted was announced at E3 06, how was it a response to GeoW1? At that time as a teen boy I thought that it was Eight Days, the 3rd person game Sony showed a year earlier on E3 05. Resistance and Killzone were dubbed by the media as halo killers, Sony never intented to counter Halo, since PS2 outsold xbox 5 times they didn't care what was happening on there. If they wanna try copy Halo they could make colorful shooter with funny sounding aliens. KZ and Resistance are far from it lol.

Why is it that when Sony makes a similar game, people like you scream "it copies" yet when its a multiplatform game or a game in a over-saturated genre its okay? Every shooter is a Wolvenstein 3D clone, now go write this on every current gen shooter board. People don't give a fvck.

 

No that is not what I wanted to say, it is not only Sony that copies from other(in this Industry anyways everyone copies from everyone but the difference is the other ones have sometimes also own ideas but sony has no own ideas or at least never has the guts to try the own ideas they have)  and the thing with Uncharted is a fact I read an Article about that, Microsoft had incredible success with Shooter Games and Xbox live last Generation and on the beginning of this Gen MS and Epic had incredible success with gears of War as response to the success of Microsoft Sony forced almost all of their developers to also make first and 3^rd person shooter games. Think about how less shooters on PS1 and PS2 was Sony had hardly any Shooter IP and since Microsoft is in the Industry 90% of the Sony Games are Shooters you can’t seriously suggest that this is all a coincidence. And with other Sony Games and products it is even more obvious that they only try to copy successful products from the competitors rather than try to bring in own ideas. Take the new Super Smash Brothers clone, the Super Mario Kart Cone, the Wii Mote clone or the Xbox live clone. All this products tell more than obvious which philosophy Sony follows, but with such a philosophy you probably never will get the market leader position back. The people always rather stay with the original than take the copy, look at Apple Products they are expensive and they have many  competitors who try to copy the i-products and sell them at a way cheaper price but Apple is still way more successful than all the other.