A Microsoft turn around? The importance of games in gaming.

[starcraft]

Coral said:

Burek said:

What I find most impressive is Microsoft's ability to persuade their customers that only the holiday season counts and that they can get away with not releasing a single game in the other 9 months.

And that fans actually can claim a superior lineup when all that is being released are two sequels and a third-party moneyhat.

 

And then in turn those same fans are shocked and dismayed that the rest of the population can choose to buy a console that is more powerful, has less corporate baggage, and has a much larger library of more varied game genres that releases on a continuous year-round schedule.

 

You said part of what I was going to say. To add to your post,I find it funny that people are now critisizing Sony for lack of exclusives when the PS3 easily had more than the 360 and Sony still owns more franhcies/companies than MS and they have more variety than Nintendo.All of that are facts that can not be disdputed.It's funny how people only mention the fall instead of the whole year.

The PS4 has way more games this year than the XboxOne,with the japanese games like Dragon Quest Heroes coming stateside,Persona 5,Disgaea 5,Hotshots Golf (possibly) and a few niche japanese games that have already released and will release this summer.It's really laughable how they have amnesia.MS only has 3 games built for the X1.One of which is another Forza and the other a timed exclusive ...very laughable indeed.

The PS3 also had a great 2013 while the Wii and 360 were dead,so it is understandable that the PS4 would be slower than the WiiU,which released a year first (so why even compare them? and the WiiU only has Mario games,Smash Bros and really Bayonetta which flopped) and none of those WiiU games are appealing looking at the sales for the console.

The next thing is that the XboxOne has nothing impressive at all no matter what this site says.None of the X1s games have sold better than the PS4 exclusives,so obviously the majority is pleased with sony's offering and everyone I know who has a PS4 is pleased and only one of them owns aother console (my nephew has a WiiU but prefers his PS4).

Back to the point about the fall.Well MS has absolutely nothing until october while I have 3 PS4 exclusives that have already released this year and quaslity is just subjective,but Sony has already released more exlcusives than MS as a whole and this year already. The only true exclusive games on the Xbox is 2 Forza games,Sunset (which MS does not own and could go to PC/PS4 and the sequel whill be multiplat), and Kinect Sport Rivals.If we count download games like Killer Instinct and Resogun,than Sony has more there also.

People also seem to ignore the fact that Sony pwns all of their fanhcies,while MS does not.Which is why Ryse and DR3 went to the PC now.So those games are no longer exclusive and Titalfall (which was mediocre IMO) was ont he PC day one. So what are we really arguing here? Is it the quality of the games which is subjective,the number of actual exlcusives which Sony has more than MS,the variety of games which Sony has more than Nintendo and MS,or just first party games which Sony easily outstrips MS and most of Nintendo games are spin offs or 2D games that are not on the same level as either Sony or MS games?

For the topic of hype,no product int he history or sales have ever sold without it.No console has sold without hype.From the Atari to the NES and SNES,to the PSX and N64,to the PS2 then the 360 and Wii and now the PS4.So why try to discedit the PS4's success? Oh you people thought the Wii sold because of games? ROFL! No,it was the marketing and controller.The same way hype and Live sold the 360 while Kinect lept it going.The PS3 only had exclusives going for it and it sold,but still needed some hype from better promotion with a price cut.

Some of you people either have short term memory or just like to ignore the fatcs. When the 360 was easily weaker in exclusives to the PS3 all of you said you preferred third party games anyway and just like Live as well as other features on the 360. Then when the X1 was about to release none of the excitement was about games,but TV features,smart glass (whatever happened to that?) and Kinect 2.0.How contradictory of the people bashing Sony when their main focus has always been games while Nintendo uses gimmick/rehashes and MS mostly pushes Live and attaches themselves to third party games with DLC or timed exlcusives.

If exclusives were all that matters the WiiU would sell the most as stated,but notice hpw WiiU owners beg for third party games,which proves that they are not satisfied.Third party games sell better on Xbox than all of the exclusives combined,so obviously no one is buying Xbox for exclusives.The PS4 has sold the most hardware with all of their exclusive games going platinum regardless of reviews while MS games sell less and outside of the usual franhcises Nintendo games have flopped.That tells you that people are buying the PS4 for games period.

All in all the whole industry has been disappointing including Sony,but the PS4 is easily the best options. If oyu own all consoles then you should be satisfied regardless.I would like to own an XboxOne and WiiU someday,but truthfully neither console is worth the money at the current price because there is not a line up of games that are attention grabbing. Both only have about 2-3 games that I want personally,which none have released yet entriely and the masses prefer the PS4,so this conversation can end now.

The fact is Sony knew what people wanted with the PS4 and the features are also great,which for some reason are ignored in this thread just to spite the PS4.

I can't speak for everyone, but I certainly am not ignoring features to spite the PS4. I play more multiplats on my PS4 than my Xbox One - mostly due to more friends having the PS4.

But ultimately, I maintain an awareness that the Xbox One has more useful features than the PS4 (though, I got the Kinect version early on, so the gap is smaller for some).

Of course, most people will only get one of the two consoles - I think what keeps coming out in this thread, even amongst those who reckon the PS4 has better games by some metric or another, is that the gap in quality certainly doesn't come close to justifying the gap in sales.