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veritaz on 27 June 2013
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Soleron said:
veritaz said:
Soleron said:
I love what he's done with the hardware, but to match Nintendo's legacy you need outstanding first-party software. And Knack doesn't set a good precedent judging from the previews - it's just 'OK'.


Sony already has outstanding first party software now, unless you are just talking about the games he is working on.

They just don't sell all that much compared to Nintendo. "Legacy" needs to be not just a critical one but an cultural one - get millions of people to have it in their homes and love it.

To take the most obvious example, I know people like LBP, but it's not Mario. And LBP Kart is not Mario Kart, and PSASBR is not Smash. No one could currently say the Sony one was more influential.

You are comparing the top selling games on Nintendo consoles that are very old ips to new ones from Sony. Gran Turismo, Uncharted, main god of war games all sell very well and Uncharted was an ip from this gen. Sony makes a ton of new ips and keeps the old ones that are influential and sell really well like Gran Turismo and god of war. Sony has the legacy with it's games and outsells a ton of Nintendo ips with critical aclaim as well. It's just that Sony can not match the Mario IP in legacy and sales while it can match and pass everything else except for Smash. Mario is just way to much of a cultural icon.