Sony has the best dev teams in the world in my opinion.
That is why i love the playsation brand
Nobody's perfect. I aint nobody!!!
Killzone 2. its not a fps. it a FIRST PERSON WAR SIMULATOR!!!! ..The true PLAYSTATION 3 launch date and market dominations is SEP 1st 
after countless great games we had on previous PS1 and PS2..., just..., just how the hell we don't love it..??, (just remembering how fun we had experienced for 10-12 years makes me want to cry...(T.T)...), I don't love Sony.., I LOVE playstation..!!, and I just want them to continue giving us great games as they used to.., and for the haters.., please leave us alone.., just let us enjoy the the game peacefully (exclusives).., no bashing, no critizing, no trolling, no trashing, no shitty reviewing, please....., and for the guys who really-really did enjoy the games backs on the PS1 and PS2, and now they turn back and hate and try to take down playstation brand just because ridiculous reason..., they trully have no life...
Variety. The other major consoles always seemed so limited in scope to me compared to the number of different games available for the PS. The Playstation has something for everyone.
I am the Playstation Avenger.
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richardhutnik said:
The diversity aspect is an interesting one. It likely connects to the question of "Where is Playstation mascot?" You ask Nintendo, and it is... Mario. You ask Microsoft and it is... Master Chief. But Sony? People have said "Gran Turismo car". There was also Crash Bandicoot for awhile, but a lot jumped ship to go third party, like Crash did and also Spyro did. I guess Sackboy is kind of, and may be shaping up at such, but I don't see LittleBigPlanet as being THE defining game on the Playstation, or representing THE defining genre, that is why people buy a Playstation console either. And another case is that LittleBigPlanet with LBP2 is morphing itself into something that is NOT a product that fits any game genre at all. So, in this, you see title after title rolled off as being excellent in nature but not really clustering anywhere, which gets back to my question of then what is in common here that would be why someone buys a Playstation home console. Seems like more like a dozen niches, which can collectively form a reason to buy, as opposed to that ONE. The question then is to try to find that ONE, and it isn't there I guess. And I hope people see why I mention Gran Turismo as the game off the top of my head to try to ask about. it doesn't represent the Playstation platform sufficiently |
You pretty much answered your own question. I'm more of a PC gamer, but for the last 3 gens, Playstations have been my preffered console.
It doesn't need a mascot for affection, the affection for is to (I know this will sound cliched) gaming itself. With a Playstation console you know their will always be a wide variety of games from multiple genres. Not having a single mascot actually reinforces this association with gaming and diversity. How many people have type-cast Nintendo consoles as "kiddie" or the X-box brand as the "shooter-box"? Playstation on the other hand is synonymous with gaming as a whole. I suppose you could say the Jack of all trades, master of none.
I noticed you also mentioned emotional attachment/affection for other gaming brands in a previous post. To that I would say that with Playstation, I found console games that could have an emotional impact. How many people balled their eyes out at a certain death in FFVII? Or have found emotional attachment to virtual relationships in Shadow of the Colossus? Or have felt a rollercoaster of emotions in MGS? Such strong emotional reactions can result in affection to the brand.
| Games4Fun said: I actually use to love my playstations almost as much as my Nintendos. The PS1 I got for Crash Bandicoot and Spryo the dragon. The JRPG scene was great too as this was when I loved almost anything JRPG's came out with. I enjoyed MediEvil. I also had a lot of the cheap racing games. I say cheap because i only paid $20 sometimes less for them (including Dukes of Hazzard). During the PS2 years I actually started falling out of love with Sony. They no longer made Crash and Spryo and the games that did come out with those names where horrible. I really wish somone would just make Crash in the same style from the first ones. |
The first Spyro games and the first Crash games were developed by Insomniac Games (Ratchet & Clank, Resistance) and Naughty Dog (Jak & Daxter, Uncharted), at that time, both of them were in a contract with Universal Interactive Studios, so they owned the rights to the 2 IPs, and when Naughty Dog was bought by Sony Computer Entertainment and Insomniac went under a contract with them to produce IPs for Sony, Vivendi Universal (now part of Activision Blizzard) took the games and put other devs to do the franchise... It was that or selling the rights to Sony and they were not gonna do that... So Naughty Dog moved on with J&D and Insomniac with R&C
It's blowing my mind how people are saying that Sony is the only one with some sort of diversity. As if Nintendo and Microsoft only make games like Mario and Halo. Is it THAT easy to pretend that games like Animal Crossing, Viva Pinata, Fire Emblem, and Banjo Kazooie don't exist?
Everybody has some sort of diversity. Just because the other two have some sort of mega-franchise (and Sony does, too) that sells 10 million copies, that doesn't mean that's ALL they have. C'mon! I'd rather people point out that Sony always pushes for new formats (like they did with CD, UMD, DVD, and Blu Ray) or that Playstation has always been the home of blockbuster 3rd party franchises, or that they do their best to make sure Playstation owners aren't missing out on anything the other companies are pushing (motion control, rumble controllers, deep online). Settling on the "Playstation means diversity" answer is a little lazy.
For every inFamous, there's a Crackdown. For every Gran Turismo, there's a Forza. For every Uncharted, there's a Legend of Zelda or Alan Wake. All companies are all things to all people. Maybe Playstation has the preffered version of these genres?
CGI-Quality said:
In fairness, the OP seems to imply that Sony lacks an identity. So people are spot on when they say that Sony's diversity is their trump card. I agree that Sony doesn't have diversity in a vccuum, but as Euphoria pointed out, they've taken more risks on niche titles than their competitors, leaving them with more IPs, overall, than them as well. So it's not that MS & Nintendo lack variety/diversity, but that Sony has it in spades, which is truly their identity. |
What are these niche titles of which you speak? And more IP's than Microsoft (likely since they've been at it since '95) but Nintendo!? The only niche titles I can think of are Heavy Rain and Little Big Planet. Hardly an avalanche. How is this any different than how Nintendo backed Wario Ware or Animal Crossing or how MS backed Rare with Viva?
I'm not just being a dick (I AM being a dick but that's not all I'm being.) I just want to challenge what people are thinking.
A few Wiki Links for comparing/contrasting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Game_Studios
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_published_by_Nintendo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_published_by_Sony_Computer_Entertainment
I would take a bullet for Sony, because they killed Sega. And Nintendo is next!
There is simple reson for why I am little biased to Playstation aka PlayStation fan. I started gaming with original PlayStation. Simple as that. Childhood memories ftw.
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