Seriously, Nintendo is not THAT Important

[Pristine20]

curl-6 said:

Aerys said:

That doesnt change what i said, "The fact is their exclusives library is focused on the variety."

You can talk about philosophy or other things we dont care because that doesnt impact this previous fact but the only thing important here to represent the console identity  is the exclusive games library,this is a game console after all no? ( this is what every nintendo fan would say in fact )


Saying MS consoles are the same thing than Sony consoles just because they share multiplats is untrue and unclever like i explained, it's like if i said that Nintendo consoles are the same than MS/Sony consoles with much less because of the lack of multiplats.

Sony and Microsoft both target primarily the dudebro crowd. Because they both go for this same audience, their approach to gaming is virtually the same.

Nintendo targets primarily the family audience and their longtime fans. Their approach is different.

I don't think that's a fair statement especially to sony and MS to a lesser extent.

 

Here's why:

As far as Sony goes, it was MS who ended up copying their winning formula with the ps1 and ps2 so the fact that the systems are "HD twins" is hardly sony's fault. Microsoft built the xbox and xbox 360 to challenge sony not nintendo. Maybe if they jumped in after the Wii's runaway success, we would have seen a very different xbox, one built to challenge nintendo instead, as seen in their introduction of kinect for that very purpose. The playstation platform has always had lots of niche titles that wouldn't get noticed on nintendo systems either and somehow, you dismiss it as catering to dudebros? Does the likes of Valkyria chronicles, Disgaea, MGS4 and dragon's crown cater to dudebros? or even a first party title like The Last of Us?

As far as MS goes, when the 360 was launched, some actually favored it as the real successor to ps2, because it was the one that got the game variety and saw a lot of JRPGs. Down the line, MS found that moneyhatting JRPGs was no longer needed as the system established it's foothold, it was then it became more dude-bro-centric. But even then, games like dark souls, dragon's dogma, Nier etc are multiplat now thanks to MS initial effort and I wouldn't classify those as dudebro.

In summary, I know nintendo has a special place in your heart but the essence of this thread is to show you that that feeling doesn't hold true for everyone. Is that so hard to accept?