Software quality 2015. Who will win? Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft?

[atomicblue]

Tachikoma said:

atomicblue said:

Tachikoma said:
im going to go out on a limb here (hah, who am i kidding) and say that people are going to say whichever company produces the console they like will win.

besides, quality is subjective for the same reason preference is

Not entirely.

I'm a Nintendo gamer, mostly, but I wouldn't have picked them as having the best games overall in 2011-2012. That transition period between Wii and Wii U was not good for their games line-up outside of a few gems, and the support for the 3DS didn't really kick into overdrive until 2013.

2014, though, was Nintendo's year as far as I'm concerned, partially because they were the only major who seemed to be releasing games of a pretty consistently excellent quality. ALL their major games were designed to work perfectly from day one, when they did DLC it was generous and never felt like they withheld content just to fleece more money from gamers, and whether or not their games were new IPs they always felt fresh and full of new ideas (Smash Bros. not so much, but it was so polished and packed with content that I didn't mind).

2015 looks to simply continue that trend in their case. I'd love to hope that Sony, MS and third parties are taking note but until they can all actually demonstrate that consistency of quality like they did during the previous generation, I've got to assume Nintendo will come out on top again.

So your argument against quality being largely the same as preference, is your preference, backed up with more of your preference?
You see how that doesnt really work, i'd hope.

People who like something more than something else (preference) are more likely to naturally attribute that as being better quality, however, in your instance for example, someone that loves GTAV, Cod, Destiny, Sunset Overdrive, etc, is more likely to point at games they like as being the hallmark of quality while shunning the games YOU like and consider high quality titles, as being boring.

I guess my point here is, a persons perception of quality is heavily biased by their personal preference.

Did you read my entire post carefully? That was not my point at all.

My point was that it's not as simple as saying people will just say their favourite company has the best games lineup for 2015, followed by pointing out that I think there are specific recent years where Nintendo didn't have the best overall lineup - in spite of the company generally being my favourite of the big three. Just because I prefer the company doesn't mean I'm blind to their dry spells.

And yes, it's subjective and a matter of personal preference. Obviously.