Is Microsoft and Sony betting on the wrong horses ?

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Cj2i3 said:

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Cj2i3 said:

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richardhutnik said:

Not sure that Knack and Ryse are good bets either.  Knack is a mascot platformer, and Ryse got morphed into Microsoft's answer to God of War.  Heck, I am not sure I see anything either on the Wii U side that is going to make much of a difference either.  

Ryse is no answer to God of War. It's more akin to Assassins Creed than it is to God of War. 

imo comparing Ryse to GoW is an insult almost as bad as comparing Playstation awwl stars to SSB. You can't compare a frivolous game to a game that's best in it's genre.

Seriously. it's not a hack n slash....its a totally different game. Way easier and casualized like Assassins Creed.

Well technically God of War and Assassins Creed would be filed under the "Action Adventure" genre, at least according to metacritic: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/god-of-war-ascension , http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/assassins-creed-iii And Ryse too looks like an action adventure game. Just the comparison is just plain bad might as well compare Forza and GT to Fast and the Furious Showdon. The combat in GoW is as you say Hack N Slash while AC and Ryse look like more traditional melee combat.

Yeah, when I say Hack N Slash genre I am talking about the old beat em up genre that actually turned into a technical system once the PS era hit. DMC, Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi, Bayonetta. Games like this. God of War is still Action/Adventure as you say but it represents Hack N Slash and is probably the highest quality in that class. There is no other hack n slash that is outselling it. It holds the crown.