Nintendo fans, Why do you hate Sony so much?

[Bong Lover]

Kaizar said:

Bong Lover said:

I hate Sony because of Heavy Rain.

To be a little more specific, I hate the direction video games are headed with Heavy Rain as the most extreme transgression I can think of. Sony seems to be activly courting this trend by developing their own 'story-driven' or 'charatcer-driven' "games". I can't stand it, I hope there will be companies around for a while longer that actually create games instead of thinking they need to generate emotions or whatever Sony's vision for the PS4 was.

If it makes you feel any better I don't feel any better about Microsoft, and I'm not 100% confident that Nintendo won't go down the same path either. 

But Nintendo has recently created:

Freakyforms Deluxe

Dillon's Rolling Western

Kid Icarus: Uprising

Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword

Ketzal's Corridors

Steel Diver

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

Pushmo

Spirit Camera

Wonderul 101

And many others.

 

Or are you not aware of these 1st Party IPs?

Aware of some, even excited for a couple of them and unaware of others. Not sure the point of the list is, but if it is to illustrate a commitment to gameplay driven design from Nintendo then sure. There is a reason why I have become a Nintendo gamer the past two generations and it is because they seem to have a philosophy about games closer to mine than the competition. I admit to being uneducated in the world of smaller and creative offering on the PS3 and Xbox 360, so I am operating a lot on gut feeling and overall direction I sense from the big time franchises that are being pushed.

I am worried that with encreased power comes increased desire for 'emotion' driven games for Nintendo. I used to be real pessimistic about the future of gaming, but it looks like the infrastructure is opening up and there will be viable platforms for independent high quality game development that I am frankly pretty excited about.