| theprof00 said: What kind of excuse is that? So it only looks like sony is putting out more games every single year because ms had a headstart? Sony is caught up and more, which says that in 6 years, sony put out more games than ms in 7. That's not an illusion. MS ended last gen leagues ahead??? Sony first party titles dwarfed the xbox first party, both in quality and quantity. PS: Halo is a massively popular series. If you're saying that Sony, being a huge multimedia conglomerate has yet to show even an ounce of strength compared to MS, I have no argument, as MS' marketing and merchandising ability wasn't something I was arguing in the first place. I'm not sure how that counters "ms is less focused on game software" though, as it really has nothing to do with it, since comic books and tv shows are not games. |
Was the measurment quanity or quality or sales? I forget what it is today.
The stick by which I am measuring is in the totality of what was or is being offered that is different. The online service, the depth and breadth of games available both online and offline, and the availability of DLC. In this respect, I see the PS3 and the Xbox 360 as equals.
If we want to measure the quanity of games, then the Wii circa 2009 has the PS3 beat by a landslide. There were more low-selling games available for the Wii by this stage of the game than Sony has first-party published the entire generation. Does Sony publish a lot of first-party games, sure. Are they all winners? No. Does Sony end up losing money on them? Possibly debatable now with PS+, since they can be used to garner subscriptions, but immediately some of them lose money.
Microsoft backed away from first-party games with the original Xbox in an effort to obtain greater support from both EA and Activision. In fact, in order to get EA to develop for Xbox LIVE, Microsoft was forced to divest itself of it's first-party sports titles. EA didn't want first-party competition from Microsoft like it had with Sony and Nintendo. Subsequently, Microsoft relies more on third-parties to create games.
In terms of first-party content, there is actually still a lot of first-party content coming from Microsoft. Again, maybe not what you're interested in, but that content comes in the form of Xbox Arcade games, Kinect Games, as well as AAA retail games.
The point about Halo 4 was that Microsoft, a software company, does more to create a total entertainment package for its gamers than Sony, a media company, software, and hardware company does. It's about doing their core customers a solid by delievering more than just a game, more than just DLC, there's actually a deeper story given to advance the game, DLC, and future games.
