Do you find you usually agree or disagree with the market?

[Zkuq]

No, they don't really align with the market very well. Of course some, probably even many, of my favourites are very successful commercially, but I'm generally not particularly interested in the games that the market is crazy about: the likes of GTA, Call of Duty, Fortnite etc. One part of that is that I'm just not very much into online multiplayer because of people and probably design as well, the other is that many such games are designed to accommodate for the lowest common denominator - which can definitely be fun, but it can only go so far for me.

As for consoles, it's always been PlayStation for me, but the reasons behind that are largely historical: When you're a kid, you get what your parents get you, and for me, that was PlayStation. PS2 was a natural follow-up, especially with some sequels to familiar games, and then PS3 was an even more natural follow-up to PS2. The first Xbox was never an option, and it was also really ugly with a terrible controller and no interesting games, and there was little reason to go for Xbox 360 instead of PS3 for me. Then comes Xbox One with its screwups, and PS4 it is, no competition - and it's the same story with Series S|X and PS5, except PS5 is terrible as well, but at least it has a future.

Notice how I haven't mentioned Nintendo. That's simply because I got a PlayStation and was happy with it. Nintendo always seemed cool but not interesting enough to really get excited about. I'm sure the games are fun, but they haven't really appealed to me enough to really get into Nintendo. I have a Wii, but I've used is very little. I'm more interested in a Switch (2), but I really want to finish to Wii backlog first... but it hasn't gone too smoothly.

So yeah, for consoles, it's mostly history. Somehow I also got into PC gaming, probably also because of kind of historical reasons, and that's what I've been enjoying the most, aside from some console games.