curl-6 said:
lucidium said:
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.
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Uncharted. Killzone. Resistance. Infamous. God of War. The games Sony pushes and promotes, the ones they focus on, are the Hollywood blockbusters. They may dabble in the family friendly, but so does Microsoft. The two have an almost identical philosophy regarding gaming.
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three of those five were born on the PlayStation 3, i would hardly call that focusing given they did not exist with the ps1 or ps2.
And i really wouldn't call the currently released Infamous or Resistance games "holywood blockbusters", so you end up with Killzone, Uncharted and God of War, three games that are completely different in every way from one another, which neatly underlines my point that Sony offers the most diverse range of games, even when you take your shortlist of "hollywood blockbusters".
Thanks for proving my point.
