How different of each other are XBOX, Nintendo and Playstation consumers?

[Leynos]

sethnintendo said:

d21lewis said:

Out of curiosity, I googled the best selling games for both consoles. Both had a pretty good mix. Both had a lot of shooters. One console got demonized for it. But that's how a lot of things in this world are. I understand.

Did Xbox fans get demonized for it?  Maybe but I only saw it as an insult in lack of diversity in genres.  Shooters aren't bad but when most of the top 10 list is dominated then one has a lack of diversity in top selling genres.  Let us see the list.

Kinect Adventures - not shooter

GTAV - I'll say not shooter on this one even though it is getting damn close to one

Halo 3 - shooter

Skyrim - not shooter

Minecraft - not shooter

CoD Black Ops - shooter

Halo: Reach - shooter

Halo 4 - shooter

CoD MW2- shooter

Gears of War - shooter

I'm counting 6/10 in top 10 as shooter. 

Face the facts Microsoft will always be known as the dude bro console and they even marketed themselves as that in the era.  Remember?

and hell that was with the Xbox One so they embraced that culture quite well.

Maybe because social media was not much of a thing then but people forget PS2 in the US was often marketed with basketball players and rappers. Sony held parties in hot tubs for marketing.  They did with PSP as well.  A lot of MTV marketing in Magazines mainly and public events. They wanted that male teen demo. Then again so did Spike TV and G4 during that time. 360 came out in 2005 and first unveiled on MTV with rappers and the pimp my ride people and bands like The Killers. MS E3 2005 had an NFL player in his Raiders uniform promote Madden on stage. Sony PS3 E3 had the marketing of stoner teens and bros. E3 Booth babes anyone? The Early to mid-2000s that demo was hot for Sony and MS to go after. MS wanted to beat Sony and saw what worked. They went after the Sony audience of that MTV crowd and said look. We got madden. We got Halo. They set a tone and it stuck for years. Wii set a tone and it's library followed it.

Xbox One however...that was a case of not reading the room correctly and by 2013 some were still after that Spike TV/MTV crowd not realizing it was on it's way out. Remember VGX in 2013? Still going after that crowd even tho it was not much in favor anymore. A year after the disaster of VGX. We got the TGAs. G5 and Spike died. That crowd grew up. What is cool in 2005 is not cool in 2013. How trends work.

Last edited by Leynos - on 10 April 2020