Phil Spencer: You don't have to own studios to make great games

[selnor1983]

After owning both PS3 and 360 I can say that there is absolutely nothing Sony produces gamewise that will ever shift me to purchse a Playstation over Xbox first. Nothing.

God Of War is still my faveourite Sony exclusiive.
Uncharted is a good series. Not Amazing or anything imo. But thats largely down to some poor story IMO that just didnt grab me in the way other games did this generation.

The Lat Of Us I desperately wanted to love. But to this day I am stationary at 81%. Ive sold the game to get GTA5. Which IMO blows TLOU away for both fun and story.

Which brings me to my point.

I have played all the big hoo haa games Sony has. And while good, did not fill and would never fill te void left by Halo, Gears, Lost Odyssey, etc that I played on 360.

People just have to accept Sonys first party offerings arent viewed by every gamer as the best or amazing.

I thought Gears Of War series although having a basic Sci Fi story was actually told in a brilliant way. It was light hearted, funny, had awesome characters and Gears 3 showed it could be emotional also. For example Id rather play Gears 3 again for story than play TLOU.

That doesnt make me wierd. It doesnt make me wrong. It makes me human. Alot of people buy Gears or have bought Gears and love the story. Theres still people today who go online to play 4 player coop singleplayer Gears 3. You can always find a game straight away.

Halo IMO is the best videogame story ever. I dont care if noone here agrees. Plenty of fans proved Halo is loved for its story. Halo 4 is the fastest and best selling Halo game of alltime. Timeframes aligned its outselling Reach and Halo 3.

I'm sure Ryse will be an awesome game. Same with DR3 and Killer Instinct. I simply could not buy a PS4 for example instead off an Xbox One for Killzone. That francise has zero draw for story for me and is just another shooter. Even KZ2 wihc I thought was the best Killzone gave me no attachment whatsoever to the characters. I didnt even remember the protaginist a day after I completed it.

So yeah. Im not attached to Sony's exclusives in anyway except for God Of War. Wich craps all over Uncharted/TLOU and Killzone for me.