JayWood2010 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
JayWood2010 said:
Lets make a list shall we?
Little Big Planet Karting
Playstation Allstars Battle Royale
Last of Us
Final Fantasy XIII Versus
The Last Guardian
Dust 514
Ni No Kuni (Extremely excited for that. So underrated!)
Beyond: Two Souls
God of War: Ascension
Sly Cooper: Thieves in time.
This is not even including the PSN games Sony is investing in.
As Sales2099 has said before most of these will go under the radar. What are you not getting here? I'm not talking about it from a fans perspective, from a business perspective. And p.s. XBLA has much more arcade games. I dont even understand why you brought that up?
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Ill admit Microsoft has got their base on a hook when it comes to XBLA. They are extremely good at Marketing where they lack games and Ive been the first and I'll be the last to praise them for it. If they have XBLA titles they saturate Xbox Live over it where as Sony lets you live and look for it if you please. I must say this years XBLA was mostly disappointing. Also, ignoring a retail game because a game is XBLA is pure hypocrisy.
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All I get out of that is Sony isn't good at marketing. Of course you're going to saturate something with a new product, that's how advertising works. I'm not a huge arcade gamer so I have no comments on this year's arcade list. I know it had FEZ, Mark of the Ninja, Deadlight, Minecraft, Spelunky, Trials Revolution, etc I know Trials Revolution was pretty amazing. Anyways, my point was XBLA is pretty big compared to PSN. Not saying PSN doesn't have arcade games because they do just not as many. They did have Journey this year which I still haven't played yet. I will eventually. If you're going to have reasons try not to nitpick everything. Microsoft is great at advertising and Sony needs to learn from them on that. And I don't believe they are ignoring retail games as they know they have Halo/Forza/Gears coming. Microsoft is focused on kinect right now and will probably stay that way until the nextbox. They're expanding there market right now.
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We've all come to the conclusion that Sony has the worst marketing now. Microsoft is expanding their Market off of the back of Nintendo, but nevertheless you're correct. Deadlight was ok, but I felt like it was ripping off Shadow Complex a little too much. XBLA is pretty big because Microsoft doesnt want to invest in larger IP's. They are playing it safe and will continue to. Sony makes lots of retail titles and PSN titles which shows only one thing in that they have more heart being a company that has less money and taking as much risk as they are. Again, I totally agree with you on the marketing issue Sony has, but I believe Sonys start next gen will play a huge part of who is in their installed base buying games. Microsoft took a lot of the gamers away who make early purchases at the beginning of a gen from Sony by using the same games that would generally come to Sony and a lower price. How did they get this out there? E3 and proper marketing. Sony has done incredibly well for a third party company. In my eyes Microsoft hasnt smashed them the way people would like to believe. truthfully, if they couldnt with Kinect, I dont think they ever will. All I have to say is in the gaming realm as a last pr statement Sony left a better lasting impression at the finish line. The smartest thing they could ever do is launch first, because their marketing isnt on par with Xbox Live. Where Microsoft doesnt fund games they fund community, which keeps sales high. I am more of as substance type person so I keep my eye on the variety of games. Yes as you said before most wont sell, but a lot will so lets keep our eyes on how Sony deals with them. The Last of Us is a hit online, lets see if Sony can do some marketing outside the net for it.
