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setsunatenshi on 18 March 2020
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Azzanation said:
setsunatenshi said:

You not giving a shit about those IPs is kind of the point why (if the rumor is true) it makes a lot more sense that Sony got them. People don't have their favorite boxes just because of the colors on them or because they look nice. It's because each audience is looking for different experiences.

These IPs resonate much more with the Playstation audience, hence why it makes sense Sony would be looking to have them after all.

And to answer your question, yeah, no, MS is publishing the games on PC anyway, so if they had a game or IP i'm interested in, I'd play it there. I don't see what's the problem here really.

"These IPs resonate much more with the Playstation audience"  

I never understand that logic, its like saying, The movie Toy Story was meant to be watched on a Panasonic player and not another branded player.. you know how weird that sounds? Ill be more into these buy outs if companies were more PC friendly allowing gamers the option of buying them on PC and not forced into buying more hardware if they choose not to. One reason I liked MS this gen was their approach to the PC audience, something I wish Sony and Nintendo did more often.

What world do you live in that you're comparing brand loyalty to a first party gaming company that has a legacy of 3rd party exclusives or de facto exclusives (like Metal Gear, Castlevania SOTN, FF7, etc) and for close to 30 years cultivates an audience that is a fan of said games, to random (insert DVD maker brand here) which functions as a tool to simply play some physical media?

People that have a console of preference, do so because of the legacy of said console and the fact their tastes are catered to. If your preferences lie in the Xbox side of things, I'd be surprised if you didn't like at least 2 of the 3 (Halo, Gears, Forza). So it's obvious the divide comes from the different tastes in software being made available. If any person that's primarily an Xbox gamer really misses the type of titles available on the PS side, they would have bought a Playstation in addition to their Xbox. It's as simple as that.

So, if you (general you) are a gamer that has nostalgia for the type of experiences Konami used to put out, you're probably more catered to on Sony's side of things. So the option being Sony possibly reviving these franchises or them staying dormant in some Konami vault behind the pachinko machines, what's the question here?