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oniyide on 18 January 2016
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Soundwave said:
zorg1000 said:
oniyide said:
zorg1000 said:
curl-6 said:
zorg1000 said:
curl-6 said:

 

 

what he is trying to say is that those titles you mentioned arent even close to the relevance as the ones in 95 and they dont get the push now that those ones in 95 got either. Knack flopped, LBP3 flopped. R&C sales dont do original Crash Bandicoot numbers. Skylanders dont do that much at least no on Sony systems. same with Disney Infinity. Lego does well but even then that is more of the license side doign the work (the actual original Lego title doesnt do near as well, looking at you Lego City stories) Minecraft is the only one really killing. Hell Sony themselves push Uncharted series now like they pushed Crash back in the day, two very different genres.

Overall, Playstation & Playstation 4 are aimed at primarily the same demographics in terms of marketing & types of games. That's the whole point, he's the one that keeps trying to deflect the conversation from its original point.

With some adjustments I would say, but generally yes ... because if it ain't broke ... why fix it? They have a formula that simply works very well. 

But I do think you're not giving Sony as much credit as they might deserve too. 

This (their holiday 2015 commercial):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mByznNYCWTY

Is considerably more sophisticated and more appealling to a 20/30 year old than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl4yAJSXxiA

Which is 90s-overload, lol. 90s Sony I would say actually was more like Sega, they basically just copied Sega's concept of marketing to the 90s MTV generation, which was a total revolution in game marketing. 

Over the years, Sony has evolved the formula a bit and made it less "for teenagers only" and more of "an adult with a job enjoying gaming is nothing weird". 

 

The Playstation brand is pretty much the jack of all trades, they exist in that weird middle where they can really sway in either direction and not get too lost. Thats probably why there consoles do as well as they do, even the PS3 didnt do to bad in the end (ironically when they tried to do too much initially, they sufferered)