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S.T.A.G.E. on 12 May 2012
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chocoloco said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
chocoloco said:
hollabackenny said:
It's too bad Sony's "exclusives" are already out for Nintendo. Either way, I imagine that whatever this is, it'll be filling in Gears of Wars space on the exclusive list. People can argue about lack of variety all they want but Microsoft is about business and when 6 of the top 10 games played on Live right now are shooters, it seems smart to produce more of what sells.

Though I do not agree Sony's and Ni ntendo's exclusives are similar in any way. I agree MS is doing what they know will sell and it is the right thing to do. Corporations hardly ever cater to minorities complaining about variety on forum boards.    The funny thing is, I fit the MS gamer description more, yet play many more shooters on my ps3. Oh how the lines blur.!


Shooters have been and will continue to be popular in the future. The problem is the funneled spending habits in the west towards such genres in large consumerist nations like America. Companies like Microsoft don't make games for the sake of variety and testing them on a market. They will only invest in profitable games which of course will give the gamers a small library of games in the end. The era of cultured gaming is over essentially.

I would not over blow it and think things have changed completely to result in the end of variety and ,"cultured" gaming as I would hardly say platformers that used to rule the gaming world are cultured and full of tons more variety. What I do agree is that at least for the foreseeable future we will continue to see a dominance in shooters in the North American market and for them to continue to thrive in Europe if not grow. Now as a shooter fan that will leave me with tons of games to play as it has all gen. But when I get tired of shooters which is often I often fell that MS does least of the big three concerning variety. Especially if you take  kinect out of the picture ( as I do not care for it).  That stated, I get back to what I said before, platformers used to rule and now shooters do. In the future, the genres will continue to evolve and we will have a new popular genre, one you may like more. Nothing is static, not even Mario will rule the roost for eternity.


The New Super Mario bros game alone sold over 50 million copies on the Wii and DS. Whats that again friend? Microsofts strongest games just so happen to be shooters. Go outside of that element and they are naked. Thus...any Xbox is the perfect console for the American audience seeing as shooting is heavily in the culture. Nintendo is the best console for everyone and Sony has the ability to cater to both and fill the gaps (as you said) which Microsoft doesn't fill outside of shooters. They need to market and popularize such games to everyone and find one heavy shooter next gen instead of selling 4-5 and only using the marketing budget for one. Sony needs to help repopularize JRPG's as they would profit off of Japan heavily if they did once more.