smroadkill15 said:
It's easy to name franchises that didn't take off, I could do the same thing for both Nintendo and Sony, so that's a pointless agruement. I agree with Too Human and NNN, but I would disagree with Fable franchise. Not only is it one the best selling wrpg's franchises it's pretty well received critic wise. You are very critical when it comes to MS first party, but you have to remember both Sony and Nintendo have been in the console game longer than MS, so they both have had more time to build up a stable of first party franchises and developers. Now, looking back at the PS2, wasn't it hugely successful mainly because of the 3rd party support it had, even more so than it's first party? I just don't get why your so critical on MS relying on 3rd party when Sony did that exact same thing last gen. How many franchises did Sony bring back this gen from last gen and before? God of War, GT, Rachet&Clank, Sly, and Twisted Metal? MS brought back Halo, Forza, PGR, Fable, and a couple of old Rare titles? Sony is just as guilty as MS for just bringing back a handful of their most successful titles from gen's before and leaving behind titles that didn't take off. |
This is a very interesting question because they way you phrase it, you can mean onto the PSP as well, the number of franchises increases quite a bit. Although I'll presume you mean just the PS3, in which you've pretty much got them all except Killzone, Hot Shots Golf and Warhawk (which was a remake of their PS1 game). (I didn't include casual games like Singstar and Buzz)
I'd also like to point out although Twisted Metal isn't doing great, there is a bit of undertracking on the title thanks to Neogaf and it'll surely crawl to a million.
To be fair to Microsoft, there was less Kinect than the two previous E3's, but their conference still disappointed, they had Halo 4 and Gears of War Judgement to show and didn't show enough of them for me :(
