| RolStoppable said: A wise man once said: "Nintendo fans: Always depressed for no good reason. Sony fans: Always excited for no good reason." Words of wisdom indeed. The best example that comes to mind for the purpose of this topic are the Wii U and Vita as a whole. While Nintendo fans are critical of the system itself as well as Nintendo, (most) Sony fans apparently couldn't be happier. Why did Nintendo fans want to buy Wii Us? Primarily to play great Nintendo games, and perhaps whatever good third party games might hit the system. What happened? A lengthy Nintendo software drought. The reaction? Anger and disappointment, so people didn't hesitate to get their pitchforks ready and grill Nintendo for their pathetic execution. Why did Sony fans want to buy Vitas? Powerful hardware, great third party support, first party games. What happened? Third party support is questionable and nowadays mostly comes from indie developers who don't push the hardware which in turn lets Vita's power go to waste; Sony's first party studios are focused on other systems. The reaction? Pretty much everything is right in the world and Sony is doing a good job with the Vita. Now that's not to say that every single Nintendo and Sony fan reacted in the described manner, but the majority did. So I'll ask: Where's the positivity among Nintendo fans? Why can't we praise downloadable games as the second coming? Why can't we be happy about the little things we get instead of endlessly complaining about what we don't get? The Wii U already has so many good games to play, but for some reason we are entitled pricks who demand new exclusive content all the damn time. |
At the bolded. This isn't true, atleast not for me. I think the Vita has better games, but I criticize Sony all the time because they don't listen to their fanbase. Nintendo finally listened to the fanbase and released Xenoblade, what has Sony done. The constant begging for years for Sony to do something about certain game releases, or the constant begging since launch for Sony to give some incentive for developers to localize their Japanese games and get other developers to develop games.
With the Vita they release or get indie g ames ported over to the Vita. They ask us what games we want again and 99.9999% of the time we're telling them we want localized retail games from Japan. What happens? Moar indie titles. Now this third party localization and development crew comes along. Epic Mickey 2 and Borderlands 2. More ports and shit we didn't ask for. And don't forget Gamescom that Shahid hyped it all to hell saying it's what we've been asking for. Then 99.9% of the fucking show is more indie games.
Sony needs to get a fucking clue we don't give a shit about indie games. The indie game fad has come but it's mostly gone. There's no reason to ride the hype t rain when you're late to the party. Just like you did with the Vita forcing touch screen on literally every first party game even when physical controls would have been fine. With the Move forcing first party developers to release versions of Move motion controls on their games instead of doing extra story parts like on Heavy Rain where the Taxidermist was the only DLC we got in a long line up of what Quantic Dreams stated they wanted to release. They wouldn't quit talking about the Wonderbook. Two fucking E3s in a row we had to hear about this shit, plus atleast one Gamescom.
Sony needs to stop pushing their bullshit on us and listen to the fans once in awhile. We've been pretty vocal on what we like and w hat we don't like, and Sony just seems to do the opposite on a lot of occasions.
Congratulations Sony. The PS Vita TV is an amazing idea, and the PS4 is a work of art when it comes to an affordable yet powerful next gen console, and you're not a year behind, but step your game up on literally everything else and stop dragging your feet. The Vita is the more powerful portable but it's not being used to its potential because you're not doing shit about it. Ports or not it still has better games, but it's mostly ports, and that's one of the biggest reasons the system and the games aren't selling. Didn't they say they weren't going to allow it to turn into a port machine and they did, like I mentioned above going so far as porting games themselves with Epic Mickey 2 and Borderlands 2?
I'm a Sony fan, but they've been doing an incredibly shitty job lately.
