| Mike_L said: Honestly, none of those 9 developers are notable based on the past home console generation. Some of them didn't even make home console games and the others I've never heard of.. The only (former) notable third party developer that hasn't released games on PS3 is Mistwalker and unfortunately they have been making mobile games since 2011. I'm not saying every single third party developer in the world (lol, that would be many) have made games for PS3, but imo literally all NOTABLE third party developers have. Cheer up! :) A healthy relationship between third party developers and console manufacturers is good and even crucial for the industry. |
Once again, you're defining "notable" based on your own personal viewpoint (that is, from the perspective of a PS3 fan), and thus rejecting developers that, by any reasonable, console-neutral perspective, would be called "notable" on the basis that they didn't make games for the PS3, and thus you don't know about them. Kind of like how there are some studios on the original list (like Eden Games, MachineGames, Splash Damage, Tango Gameworks, CyberConnect2, and Dontnod Entertainment, and that's just from the first 20 developers you reference) that I've never heard of because I don't have a PS3.
Just writing "Notable" in capitals doesn't really convince me any further, when my whole point is that your definition of "Notable" is circular, and thus that you are ignoring notable developers for no other reason than that you don't know them, as a result of them not making games on the PS3.
It is not rational to call the studios made by the creators of Sonic and Final Fantasy "not notable". It is not rational to dismiss the makers of the Harvest Moon games as "not notable". Indeed, I'd suggest that anybody who doesn't know who Natsume is cannot reasonably call themselves gamers in the sense most frequently used on these forums. Also, The Last Story was released in 2012 outside of Japan, and Mistwalker had to do work on it for those regions. It's kind of insane to go "they haven't released a non-mobile game in two years, and therefore they weren't notable enough in the last generation".
So... yeah. Like I've said a few times, now, this is an easy fix - just replace "literally all" with "practically all" or "nearly all". It carries the same intent without being demonstrably false.
