happydolphin said:
As it were, I'll repeat what I wrote: "Now, thankfully, Sony has upped its game and with studios like ND and Team Ico, and the evolution of Gran Turismo, they could sustain a console on their own. But as it were, Sony and Microsofts' success were not meant to be, and are founded on dishonesty and the ability to leverage large sums of money." They now give a shit, but their foundation is on not giving a shit. As such, they were not the natural evolution, but got flucky. Just like the Wii got flucky and is not a natural evolution. It's sad to me that history played this way. I wish it would have been different and that the market, circumstance and wiser decisions would have led to the outcome where Nintendo is king of both casual and core offerings, as it was meant to be. 3rd parties made it happen for Sony in its origin. Money made it happen for Microsoft in its origin. The biggest losers were SEGA and Nintendo. Thank heavens Nintendo is still in the game, but sadly they came out the other side emasculated. |
Sony's first party was always great, just highly underrated because they were drowning in a sea of third party from the very beginning. Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia, Crash Bandicoot (at one time), Hot Shots Golf, Coolboarders, Starhawk, Dark Cloud, Twisted Metal, Ico, Sotc, God of War and the list goes on and on and on. Sony never commercially pushed their titles out in everyones face becasue they always had so many. Sony's first party is finally getting love because Microsoft made deals to get all the third party Sony had rounded up under them as well. Sony already had a major list of beloved titles before the PS3, Microsoft just made it that much easier for those who cared to notice. Back last gen no one cared what was first party or third. Microsofts dependence on third party is rather what has made people so interested in where the games come from since the majority of their top titles are not from under them and havent been even since last gen.
SEGA was one of my favorite companies, but you can even see it in their titles today, the worlds are generic and not carefully planned. Something that would pass in the 90's but definitely not with the passing of the millenium. Sega had first party for every genre and they made Nintendo look weak in that respect as well. Sega didn't have casual appeal though, they lost it after the Genesis era. That console was just too hardcore and it was also a generation behind in format which caused it to get pirated worse than any other console in recent memory. I mean the Wii's pirating was bad, but the Dreamcasts was just god awful.
