Opinion: the heavily losing fronts of PlayStation that nobody talking about.

[dexterlablab1]

Alkibiádēs said:

dexterlablab1 said:

 

It's not as obvious as you may think.  Thing about Nintendo is that their online is weak at the moment. You don't see the kind of threads you speak of about Sony or Microsoft games because frankly, they don't need them. The way Sony and Microsoft's infrastructures are set up,  players can get connected to each other easily. They both have very community based functions on their respective networks that make having to do things like make threads like you're talking about obsolete. Sony even has the community functions built in where people literally make their own user based communities (and yeah there are LBP communities on it).

What a load of nonsense, if people on this forum want to play together they're going to have to contact each other on this forum first. Mario Kart also has community functions built in where people Literally make their own user based communities. Yet you're still going to need to post on this forum if you want the members to know about it. There has simply been very little interest in LBP3 on this forum, even when the game launched. Sales data supports that notion. There's a huge drop off compared to the first LBP. Killzone also never got to Halo levels. PS ASBR also never caught on like SSB. The community simply isn't there for any of Sony's multiplayer focused games. Sony tried to make GoW multiplayer focused and it backfired with Ascension (the worst selling GoW).

The thing about Sony is that they don't have any great online games themselves, they rely on third party games for that. Sony offers mainly cinematic single player experiences. There's not a single company out there that has as many good online multiplayer games as Nintendo: Splatoon, Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Super Mario Maker, Animal Crossing and Pokémon. This creates a stronger community.

 

 

I was talking about the networks in general, not simply this site alone. But the fact remains, Sony and Microsoft have their systems setup to where you really don't need to go crazy making threads like what you're referring to.   As Nintendo starts to get serious about online, threads like the ones you mention will start to fade away.

Mario Kart having community functions alone doesn't say much because it's a self-contained game. Which means, it only ties to people for THAT game alone. So it makes sense to make threads for get togethers on mario kart because Nintendo's ecosystem isn't fully tied together just yet. Right now, their against two competitors that have had full ecosystems where thread meet ups were made almost obsolete

Look at Dr Henry Killinger's post. He pretty much refers exactly to what I'm saying