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lucidium on 12 January 2014
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curl-6 said:
lucidium said:
curl-6 said:

Sony focuses on M-rated blockbusters that ape Hollywood.

MS focuses on M-rated blockbusters that ape Hollywood.

Their approach to gaming is virtually the same.

Nintendo doesn't do this; they create games for all ages, with more focus on gameplay.

Singstar, Ratchet and clank series, Jak and daxter series, hot shots golf series, little big planet series, modnation racers, eyepet series, buzz series, Sly series, sorcery, flower, flow, journey, sports champions series, puppeteer and many more all say hello.

Have a little rationality, Sony focuses on diversity, family focused games to m-rated shooters and everything in between, way to push an old stereotype that has ALWAYS been flat out wrong.

They have those game, sure, but they are not their primary focus. And MS does the same thing, so again, the two have a nearly identical approach to gaming.

No specific genre is Sonys primary focus, you really need to stop projecting, a large portion of the top rated "shootahs" people love to moan about are actually third party, Sony invests just as much focus and resources in to games of varied genres as it does into it's small grouping of shooters, those being killzone and resistance, so what you are in actual fact doing is cherry picking a very tiny portion of Sonys portfolio of games and using said selection to generalize the company as a whole, when the reality is that Sony simply offers a broader range of titles than Nintendo.

Your generalization would have fit the pre-2009 ish Microsoft for the most part but with the addition of kinect they have expanded their library and explored other genres more, not as much as Sony mind, but they have done non the less.

Nintendo sticks with its staple genres and formats and rarely diverts into new territories or tackles existing popular genres, which is why they are different, but that difference isn't necesserilly a good thing as evidenced by the fact large portions of gamers flat out avoid the console completely.

The issue is not however, where a particular company decides to limit its range of titles or expand upon it, the issue is the narrow minded statement of microsoft and sony being "alike" when their first party offerings are completely different, your fixation with what is primarilly a third party contribution to the industry is a warped one at best.