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What is your opinion on this?

I hope things just get worse. 64 35.16%
 
I'm neutral about it, th... 30 16.48%
 
I like Sony, I want them strong. 45 24.73%
 
Sony is an indispensable ... 34 18.68%
 
Total:173
Play4Fun on 19 October 2012

I have no problems with Sony and I don't want to see them fail out of the market (MS either).

I just like to argue in Sony threads to piss off certain Sony fans. =p



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se7en7thre3 on 19 October 2012

Honestly, I think what has happened in regards to Sony vs MS is hilarious, & Sony deserved a taste of its own medicine.

Sony intruded on Nintendo & other pure gaming companies, and now a bigger bully has taken over. Nintendo is a pure gaming company, Sony never was. Sony came in and basically stole ideas and made it their own. That didn't sit right with me, it was lame as ****, can't respect a company like that. Its like the NY Yankees always buying world series rings. I was on the young side of SNES vs Genesis, but Sega was always innovating, look at Dreamcast and all their ideas. They've always had my respect. But Sony and MS, IMO are abominations to the industry, and yes, I too am guilty in supporting them (gamer 1st, fanboy last).

I hated Sony when I found out yrs later it was supposed to team with Nintendo for a disc based console. I disliked N64 b/c of its cartridge, so I've been a Sony "hater" (but I still played and bought consoles, blame friends influence) ever since. I'll be LMAO when they exit the console market.



Kenology on 19 October 2012
Metrium said:

I used to have a PS1 alongside my N64, I also have a PsP and a PS3.

That being said, it's a weird feeling I'm having cause the Ps3 has been my 2nd console of choice, or atleast my console of choice for 3rd party games. That being said, I found Sony extremely arrogant this gen. Launching a 700$ machine claiming that it's because it is by far the best machine on the market, claiming to be special cause they focus on useless things like 3D and now 4K resolution... Statement from Jack Tretton about the WiiU such as ''Welcome to the club, HD was 2007 for us'' barely 2 years after shamlessly ripping off the Wiimote. The constant fact that they think so highly of themselves despite ripping off SSB, Mario Kart, the Wiimote... Blasting the DS/3DS claiming that they were to weak to be competition to the PsP/Vita (wich was proved false :P), and finaly I heard them claiming so often things like ''Unlike Nintendo, we do mature gaming, Ps3 is for grownups wii is for kids, blahblahblah bullshit bullshit...''. So Sony completely lost me this gen. I keep playing on the Ps3 cause it is indeed a great machine, but I only feel disdain towards Sony as a company.

I would'nt mind seeing them leave the hardware race and go back towards a 2men race like back in the days with Nin vs Sega, Ninty having the handheld market all by itself would'nt be a bad thing since it was that way back in the days of the Gameboy and we had great games at the time, + they would still have competition against smartphones... One thing is certain, next gen I will buy a Wii U, and if I choose to buy a 2nd console, I'll go with Xbox8 over Ps4. First party games are'nt as good, but it has way more services and atleast they had the decency to try to contribute to the gaming industry with something new like Kinect instead of just shamlessly ripping off the Wiimote. And when M$ has an idea, they stick by it and support it, Sony only make ppl buy useless stuffs and then give up and stop supporting their ideas (they gave up on the move, gave up on the eye toy, seem to be giving up on 3d, and abandoned the PsP and I'm expecting them to do the same with the vita)

So to answer the OT, yes, Sony's struggles amuse me, if that makes me a terrible person so be it.

I was feeling bad for Sony while reading through the thread and then I read this.  O_o



Farsala on 19 October 2012

It is sad for any game company to fall imo, they all have added much to make gaming so fun.



Metrium on 19 October 2012

I also feel like Sony is running out of steam. Yes the coming of the Ps1 brought alot of good things to the industry, Ps2 was great but I feel like Sony can't bring anything new to the industry. They don't seem to be able to innovate anymore. All they did this gen is copying Nintendo on many fronts and playing catch up with Xbox live by adding features brought first by M$ (trophies for example). The only answer they seem to be able to find is ''more power''.

Seriously, can anyone tell me what Sony added to gaming this gen? The only significant contribution I can credit them is LittleBigPlanet that is truly groundbreaking thanx to all the power they gave the to the community... But even that I'm not sure If i should credit it to Sony or the Studio who came up with the idea of the game... They bought so many devs but still only few of their first party games feel unique.

Yes, more competition is good, but with Sony only being able to answer the competition by copying others and then adding power to other's idea I wish they would just leave. And if them leaving could encourage someone new that would truly contribute with new things to the industry to enter the race and fill Sony's place that would be great. (altho I doubt it because of all the doom and gloom talk around consoles I doubt anyone new would step in, but who knows? maybe that paticular newcomer would have the answer to ''revive'' consoles, even tho I don't think consoles is going anywhere.)



 

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brendude13 on 19 October 2012
Roma said:

as a Nintendo fan the only thing I want from Sony now is that they get TLG finished! and released of course ...

...On Wii U?



Turkish on 19 October 2012

Next gen brotha. I believe in the PS Quatro.



miz1q2w3e on 19 October 2012
RolStoppable said:
I don't feel bad for them. They made huge mistakes in the seventh generation and the Vita shows that they are unwilling or incapable of learning from their mistakes. If it weren't for Microsoft, it wouldn't bother me one bit if Sony were to exit the hardware race entirely.

Care to elaborate?



Sal.Paradise on 19 October 2012
Metrium said:
I also feel like Sony is running out of steam. Yes the coming of the Ps1 brought alot of good things to the industry, Ps2 was great but I feel like Sony can't bring anything new to the industry. They don't seem to be able to innovate anymore. All they did this gen is copying Nintendo on many fronts and playing catch up with Xbox live by adding features brought first by M$ (trophies for example). The only answer they seem to be able to find is ''more power''.

Seriously, can anyone tell me what Sony added to gaming this gen? The only significant contribution I can credit them is LittleBigPlanet that is truly groundbreaking thanx to all the power they gave the to the community... But even that I'm not sure If i should credit it to Sony or the Studio who came up with the idea of the game... They bought so many devs but still only few of their first party games feel unique.

Yes, more competition is good, but with Sony only being able to answer the competition by copying others and then adding power to other's idea I wish they would just leave. And if them leaving could encourage someone new that would truly contribute with new things to the industry to enter the race and fill Sony's place that would be great. (altho I doubt it because of all the doom and gloom talk around consoles I doubt anyone new would step in, but who knows? maybe that paticular newcomer would have the answer to ''revive'' consoles, even tho I don't think consoles is going anywhere.)

For me, the best videogames and the only competent online service I don't have to pay for. And that's what I needed this gen. 



Turkish on 19 October 2012
Metrium said:
I also feel like Sony is running out of steam. Yes the coming of the Ps1 brought alot of good things to the industry, Ps2 was great but I feel like Sony can't bring anything new to the industry. They don't seem to be able to innovate anymore. All they did this gen is copying Nintendo on many fronts and playing catch up with Xbox live by adding features brought first by M$ (trophies for example). The only answer they seem to be able to find is ''more power''.

Seriously, can anyone tell me what Sony added to gaming this gen? The only significant contribution I can credit them is LittleBigPlanet that is truly groundbreaking thanx to all the power they gave the to the community... But even that I'm not sure If i should credit it to Sony or the Studio who came up with the idea of the game... They bought so many devs but still only few of their first party games feel unique.

Yes, more competition is good, but with Sony only being able to answer the competition by copying others and then adding power to other's idea I wish they would just leave. And if them leaving could encourage someone new that would truly contribute with new things to the industry to enter the race and fill Sony's place that would be great. (altho I doubt it because of all the doom and gloom talk around consoles I doubt anyone new would step in, but who knows? maybe that paticular newcomer would have the answer to ''revive'' consoles, even tho I don't think consoles is going anywhere.)

While they did not innovate anything at all hardware wise. They always delivered on original and creative content like Journey, Flower, The Unfinished Swan, LBP and soon Tearaway and Puppetter and Rain.

Sony copied nintendo on what? Motion controls have been there since Eye Toy, the plans started back in 2000. Sony also popularized casual gaming, invented the music genre. All the casual products you see on the market are thanks to the Eyetoy, Singstars a,d Buzz we saw a decade ago.

Not to mention Sony's biggest innovation: PS+