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Mr Puggsly on 11 April 2013
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KylieDog said:
Mr Puggsly said:
KylieDog said:
Otakumegane said:
No, I think we need a way for Western gaming presence to bloom. Japan only consoles is dull and boring.

Part of the reason why shooters and WRPGs became so successful this gen was because of the success of the 360.


The popularity of shooters is due to online MP, and WRPGs aren't anymore popular than before.

There was online MP last gen as well, but MS made online gaming more mainstream with the 360.

Before the 360, WRPGs were primarily a popular PC genre. But now they've become a very popular console genre. All those sales combined tells me the genre has become more popular.


For the best part of last gen peoples net speeds were shit, the number of people who owned consoles able to go online was small (the original PS2 needed an adaptor, Xbox had low sales and even its online wasn't good for a long while, no Halo 1 MP etc).  This gen every console is very easy to play online with, there is a large userbase for both 360 and PS3, net speeds have skyrocketed since mid 2000s.

There is nothing 360 has done for online MP PS3 also has not done.

As for WRPGs, anything worth mentioning is on PS3 also, so again, nothing to praise 360 alone for.

When the PS2 and original Xbox launched broadband connections were just becoming standard. It wasn't until about 2003/2004 that noteworthy online capable shooters came to consoles. The original Xbox had low sales but shooting fans flocked to it. Lets remember Halo 2 (a popular online game) was the best selling shooter on a single platform and the 2nd best selling shooter of the 6th gen.

You don't need a superfast connection to play online games. I was playing Dreamcast online with a 56K modem. In the early 2000s I was playing PC games online with 30KB broadband connection.

Xbox and Xbox 360 made online gaming on consoles more mainstream. This isn't up for debate, this is just a fact.

You said, "WRPGs aren't anymore popular than before." But its clear they have become more popular on consoles this gen. I didn't say the 360 deserves all the praise for this. But the 360 had noteworthy WRPGs well before the PS3 because MS pushed that genre on consoles. In fact, MS was pushing WRPGs on consoles last gen as well.



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