Journey is PSN game.

I don't count PSN games or XBL games since there is different worlds.

Heavy Rain I will give you.

Flower seems dead after 2009 so don't I think it helps. Will never see another probably. Wasn't that on PSN btw?

"Unfinished Swan"

Never heard of it did sony adversite it at all?

I like everything about this post except the first statement.

Some fans may admit it, but others are in denial and it's annoying. How much explaining do you have to do for someone to realize the obvious? What could be blocking their judgement? Imho partisanry. I'm not saying the Nintendo fans are free from it, your post denounces their behavior, but the Nintendo behavior is much more difficult to call out so kudos on you for finding an explanation. The Playstation one is blatant denial and that's really what I hate.

Again, I'm not saying all the PS fans are in denial, only a small minority, and they are the same ones to bash Nintendo at their first chance. Go figure it all comes from the same place.

Here's an interesting question. Why didn't they make Little Big Planet Fighting and give each character some unique moves? Or create their own character roster. Almost every aspect of this game is smash, bar a few game machanics here and there (health-ratio knockback, dashing).

Haven't you noticed the people posting? This isn't about Nintendo fans bitching about Sony; this is about Sony fans bitching about Nintendo fans bitching about Sony, to use your words, :P.

On topic, it is a rip-off. Simply because there's exactly two things that identify SSB, the fact that it's a 2D fighting game and that it has Nintendo's best characters in it. As awesome as the gameplay is, SSB would still be similarly huge, even if everything else other than the two things I mentioned was changed.

And you know what two things Sony has made clear about this game just by the title? Hint: Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale

It's about big Playstation characters and fighting. Does that sound similar?

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with being inspired by a game, but when you're pretty much taking the most important aspects of a game series and making your own game with it, I'm afraid that qualifies as a rip-off and gives people the right to complain, if nothing else.

The reason that noone cares about iphone Pokemon rip offs, Mole Kart, TMNT Smash Up, and so on, is because they're insignificant products.  There's no sense in getting worked up whenever some dude in China makes a rip off, but when one of the companies we count on to drive the industry forward does the same thing, it's a little more noteworthy.

And aside from both involving monster taming, Shin Megami and Smash share very little in terms of gameplay.  I'm not sure exactly which Shin Megami game introduced monster collecting, but the earliest I could think of was Devil Children which kind of ummmm... sucked...

It definitely matters more when it is a main competitor, of course. Why wouldn't it though. If some random stranger somewhere you have no idea about copies an idea of your in a market that doesn't affect yours in any way, but then say your brother comes along and makes something almost cookie cutter yours and attempts to take some of your market, isn't that worse? I would say so.

Regardless as I said there are pros and cons to this, all I'm asking for is cut the denial crap guys.

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Yes. So, by definition, party game means shovelware. SSB is a shovelware.

I disagree, you can get some great party games.