Sony Tries to Downplay Microsoft’s Project Scorpio Hardware Power

[Zanten]

padib said:

Zanten said:

This is indicative of a shift that's rather inevitably hit all media, regardless of whether or not Sony was there. Books, comics, television shows, movies and games have generally pushed at whatever limitations were placed on them by broadcasters, publishers, etc and often included darker themes, greater levels of violence, sex, gore, etc. Even if Sony weren't there, somebody else would have filled the void. If not Nintendo themselves, then some other company would have seen an underserved market and capitalized on it while Nintendo ended up pretty much exactly how it is at the moment. =P What you're railing against here is human nature, as opposed to the nefarious acts of any single company.

I mean, honestly, if Sony had vanished off the face of the Earth after, say, the original Playstation, do you really think things would be different? =P

As for which is the 'best,' the term remains subjective, it always has. At the moment, more people seem to like Playstation. They're just as right or wrong as the people who like Nintendo, or Xbox; there's no 'correct' side here, and what's a fun game to one person is going to be a boring, uninspired slog to another. That's exactly why it's always a positive that both sides are getting served by at least ONE platform. Not everyone only wants Nintendo's style of games, myself included. Not everyone only wants the kinds of games you mentioned like Watch Dogs and such. Nintendo's there for you, Playstation's there for me, (though I do also own a Wii U for friend get-togethers) so it's win-win. ^_^

That's the positive way to look at it. I appreciate positivity, but I find the state of gaming today difficult to swallow.

Right now I find most my fun in indy games or emulators, with the rare new hit here and there.

Eh, but sometimes the medium just doesn't go in the direction we want to. It's unfortunate when it happens, and honestly I think everyone has some small wish when it comes to where the market would go- ('Down With Sports Games! GO DO IT OUTSIDE! More spaceships!')- but it would be literally impossible to keep everyone happy. =P For every person getting what they want, there are going to be a few who wanted something else, and like any business, most publishers are going to follow the money. Put as delicately as possible, Nintendo has opted to do its own thing with the Wii U and cater only to its traditional crowd, and that hasn't exactly gone... swimmingly, this generation.

Anyway, my tastes are pretty broad, as I enjoy my narrative-focused games as well as my mechanically-fun-but-narratively-shallow titles. Hell, I loved playing Nidhogg competitively and it is one of the simplest videogames I've ever played. xP And I loved Thomas Was Alone and that's all about the emotional journey of geometrical shapes. So with the exception of a few genres like sports, most racing and military shooters, I'm actually pretty content. (: I think I'd get bored if all the games I played were JUST adventure games, JUST roleplaying games, JUST serious, JUST colorful, whatever. I like to mix it up! :3

I might go play some Nom Nom Galaxy later. xP