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seiya19 on 12 January 2014
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TornadoCreator said:
seiya19 said:

Numbers don't lie. Nintendo has, so far, being far more successful than Sony when it comes to 1st party software. And it's no secret that the success of Playstation platforms has historically got a lot to do with 3rd party support. Franchises like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, GTA, Tekken, and Tomb Raider, for example, which Sony fans themselves associate with the brand, for better or worse.

The ironic part being that many of those franchises are better outside of Sony. Metal Gear Solid had it's definitive version on the GameCube, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas had better graphics and ran smoother on the original Xbox. Tomb Raider ran far better on PC. Really it's only Final Fantasy, and even that is better on PC now, with the definitive version of FF7 on Steam (they finally fixed the calculation errors with the magic and spirit stats on that version).

Yeah, a lot of 3rd party franchises that are generally associated with Playstation have actually originated on other platforms, or have been more multiplatform than anything. Of course, people generally exclude PC versions here for one reason or another, and some just ignore the existance of anything prior to Playstation.

There's a valid argument to be made here about how a popular platform can help a franchise rise in popularity like it happened with some on PS1/PS2 (or other platforms, including Nintendo ones) which justifies the association with the brand to some extent, but more often than not, it's the whole chicken/egg situation. Who knows what would've happened if 3rd parties had made a different set of choices...

Kyuu said:
And who cares if Final Fantasy 7 came out on Steam a couple of decades after the original release??

The PC version of Final Fantasy VII was originally released in 1998, a few months after the PS1 NA release. Same with Final Fantasy VIII (which on PC included the "Chocobo World" minigame). And for the record, the original Metal Gear Solid also got ported to PC, albeit 2 years after the PS1 release.