Why are games so huge on the Playstation?!
Its called Little Big Playstation*.
At first I was thinking maybe a disclaimer on all monitors stating all Playstation objects appear larger than reality when displayed. However that doesn't quite make sense. What does make sense is that if you shrink the gaming world down to just the Playstation 3 and then only compare games relative to the Playstation 3 then obviously the exclusive games would appear larger than they actually were. I like to call this effect Little Big Playstation or LBP** for short.
Its bothered me for years. I have wanted to come up with a term to categorise why games on the Playstation 3 always seem to portrayed as bigger than they actually are, especially in comparison to other platforms with much bigger games. See for instance Gran Turismo 5***. Its a mighty big game and thats certain. But is it huge? Look at the Nintendo game list by comparison. Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Brothers and maybe Super Mario Galaxy 2 are huge(ererer) and the humble Mario Kart will probably at least double and maybe go 2.5-3* the overall sales of that game yet being humbly in the same genre as Gran Turismo.
So now I humbly propose that perhaps Sony has succeeded even more grandly than anyone had anticipated. They have let people create their very own worlds, stuck the Playstation 3 monolith in the centre of it and declared to all who would care to heart the level that these games are HUUUUGE****.
*Im not meaning for any offense, this is merely in jest. Feel free to come up with your own discriptions of other consoles if desired so long as you make an attempt to not be offensive.
**No breach of Sony copyright intended or implied.
***GT5 was used merely as an example, there are other titles which can be used but I limited it to one game to limit possible offense.
****Disclaimer relative to other Playstation 3 titles.
Tease.