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Jereel Hunter 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.

People having poor net speeds made sony largely ignore online MP. MS on the other hand saw that it was the future, and built Xbox Live. Xbox's low sales didn't stop me, and millions of others from playing Halo 2 online at a time when it was the purview of only PC gamers. (Also, the lower average latency of console online gaming was a HUGE bonus back in the days of lesser internet connections)

PSN is what it is today because Xbox live forged ahead, and it was forced to follow suit. You can't give PS3 credit for doing the same things a few years later, in trying to catch up.

Ditto for WRPGs. When the first Mass Effect came out, and really showed a lot of people what WRPGs were capable of, it was an Xbox exclusive. It took years for the ME franchise to make it to the PS3.