oniyide said:
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. |
Sony has been a jack of all trades and when it comes to pumping out great games they've been making a joke out of their competition by themselves. Microsoft made Sony a strong company by taking all of their third party exclusives, so Sony started making their companies produce even more games. More franchises will be formed next gen as well.
The problem for Sony seems to be with casuals. What no Nintendo fan will agree upon but is a fact within this new millenia Sony started the casual effort first (within the new millenia). They did not go after the media, it was like they didnt care and it sold the way it did because of horrible marketing. If the Playstation Eye motion control had hit in the PS2 era the PS2 would've sold well over 200 million consoles. The Wii hit the jackpot the gen after going after motion controls as well. Nintendo hit people where they lived and gave them an affordable product. What Sony did was they put out the PSeye with a fleet of games and neglectfully expected people to just gravitate to it.
Sony has the stigma now of being the techie and hardcore gamer console with the inability to make non-gamers game. This doesnt both me any because I love a company that gives a damn about games enough to produce good quantities of them with a level of quality and art style that appeals to me. Microsoft doesnt even try and Nintendo I mostly grew out of. I was a Microsoft fanatic until the Playstation came out and it opened me up to a wealth of games and genres I never thought I would have ever played.
The reason why Sony has always sold well regardless of being in third place is because they are the jack of all trades. They are the all around platform that has the most games and still excells in media without putting it ahead of games.
I know all of this, but the problem Sony has despite their trials is appealing to casuals who dont game.







