NPD: Percentages of US Switch owners that own PS4/Xbone/both/neither

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Otter said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Sony's strategy is to rely on third party games more than first party games.  Therefore, if they don't have many compelling third party games than that is mostly their fault.  The fact that their first party games are not particularly compelling is definitely their fault.  The Switch has more interesting third party games, to me at least, than PS4 does.  Some of these, like Octopath Traveler or Mario + Rabbids, are there because of Nintendo's involvement.

I stand by my original statement.  Based on my past track record I have been more loyal to Sony than Nintendo, but if PS5 follows the same direction as PS4 then I don't expect to like PS5 very much.  I might skip it or get it cheap for streaming and Blu-Rays.

From your own words you never liked most of sonys offerings to begin with. Uncharted, GOW, TLU. Games that defined the PS3 which you said you  enjoyed as a platform.

Sonys 1st party output on PS4 is critically (metscritic) higher than on PS3. There was not an abundance of Sony Japan games on PS3 either. 

I'm just pointing out that your distinction between PS4/PS3 is blurry and Sony is about to have one of their best exclusive years in history.

And there are more JRPGs on PS4 compared to switch from everything FF related, to DQ which arrived on playstation much earlier, to persona, to Ni No Kuni 2, Valkyria Chronicles, Tales, Nieh  and dozens of niche titles. Absolutely fine you prefer Switch's library but I don't think that's something for Sony to amend as you're suggesting, they have a very high 1st party output that hasn't changed drastically for decade. You are just more interested in Nintendo.

I don't even know what you are arguing.  I am saying what I like, and you are telling me I am wrong to like that.

I really DID like PS1, PS2 and PS3.  I am not required to like Uncharted, GOW and TLU.  There were about 2000 games on the PS3.  Everyone likes something different.  And even from Sony publishing, they published a lot more than 3 titles on the PS3.  It's so they appeal to different tastes.  My favorite game that they published on the PS3 was Demon's Souls.  It was said to be a niche title at first and after a few years everyone is talking about Dark Souls and is using the phrase, "it's the Dark Souls of _____ games".  In previous generations they published things like Shadow of the Colossus and Legend of the Dragoon.  I tend to like the Japanese style games that they publish, especially when they make enough of them.

But Sony is moving further and further away from Japanese style games.  That is the direction I don't like.  Do I like Nintendo more?  Yes, right now I do.  It wasn't always that way, but yes, now Nintendo is a lot better, and Sony is getting worse and worse.  Sony is becoming more Western focused, and they have huge holes where Final Fantasy and Dark Souls used to be.  Are they going to do anything to make up for that?  That is what I am looking for.