S.T.A.G.E. said:
I would say both really to which console and to graphics or gameplay, Nintendo don't push those either. They leave the rudimentary feeling while changing the way you game. Just because I say rudimentary it doesnt mean that no difficulty is involved but there is. The rudimentary par comes from the fact of who Nintendo are making these games for. Nintendo never changes their inward mentality so I can most definitely say both. They dont push graphics even on a console that has great graphics potential. The most impressive and expansive worlds ever created was in Super Mario and Zelda and it still hasnt changed for Nintendo. Those games never pushed graphics, but they were so amazing no one gave a crap. Art style pushes so many love buttons in so many peoples memory because they can take you away from the technical aspects of the game and I think thats great. Nintendo puts you in a world where graphics dont matter and thats just the way I remember them today which is no different than yesteryear when they were my primary console provider. They dont need elaborate stories. Nintendos greatest asset is their creativity and art direction when it comes to their characters. Nintendos games have the building blocks to create gamers out of young children and novice gamers. Microsoft and Sony do no posess the key to this just yet. Sonys creative asset is narrative, cinematics, dialog and character development games with moderate level gameplay as the lowest learning curve. They essentially want you ride the movies because thats what the Playstation has turned into Universal Studios in a box whilst Nintendo is disney in a box. The Xbox 360 doesnt focus so much on the creative but general online and we can be thankful for them because if they werent around we would be scraping around. Microsofts innovation does not come from its games because thats actually their weak point, they got gamers to forget about games for ten seconds and realize that OS matters in games.
In conclusion every has their strengths and weaknesses and I like a little bit of everything.
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Dont really agree too much about the SOny part, they make alot of games that are not cinematic heavy, Modnation, Journey, Flower, LBP, Sly, Tearaway, thats just off of my head. IMHO they are like the jack of all trades, they dont excel in any particular department but do all right in everything. I dont think their is a genre they havent touched at this point. Everything else is spot on.
