Diversity comes from third party support. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you swapped Sony's third party support with Nintendo's no one would be calling Sony's library "diverse", lol.

Sony/Nintendo/MS are just all one individual company, they can supply maybe 10-12 games (console) a year themselves, you're not going to get "diversity" from that.

I think it's because Nintendo isn't a challenger. Both Sony and Microsoft probably feel safe talking Nintendo up right now. The moment Nintendo leads the industry again, that will likely change. If I remember correctly, there was ALOT of shit talking from Sony (Pew Pew) during that era.

I'm quite sure you think that.  Honestly--and I mean this--I feel like I owe you a bit of thanks.  You've kind of put things in perspective for me and made me remember that this is just a meaningless argument over a bit of fluff on a video-game forum.  To think that I could be digging up old posts by someone in order to harass them online, it's like ... haha, okay, this really, truly doesn't matter that much to me.  That realization is like a weight off of my shoulders--and for that, I thank you.

Now I'm going to go read for awhile before bed.  I've gotten to a really good part in Before They Are Hanged, where Superior Gokta is about ... well, I shouldn't spoil.  Regardless, I hope you find enjoyment in your endeavors.  =]

MS problem is less about diversity and more that they don't really have any hit exclusive IP. They've rested on their laurels since Gears Of War, which attracts the same audience as Halo.

Even Nintendo has made new things like Wii Sports, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, etc. since Halo, but MS really has not.

Sony has created The Last of Us, Uncharted, LittleBigPlanet, which have had commercial success to some degree at least (Uncharted and LoU primarily).

I guess they bought Minecraft, but that was already successful on the XBox beforehand, so they're not exactly bringing in a new audience with that IP.

But MS has been riding Halo for far too long. They need something newer than Halo, you actually don't need crazy diversity with your 1st/2nd party titles (provided you have 3rd party support which MS does), but you can't just sit on one IP for 15 years and simply try to ride that forever. Forza and Fable are freaking tired too and where never that big in the first place. 

MS needs a hit original IP that isn't similar to Halo. That's their issue. 

What? Are you saying that TPS crowd is the same as FPS's, because... pew pew?

I guess Kinect selling dozens of millions of softwares in just 3 years doesn't count for jack. I could swear Animal Crossing came out on GC.

Talking about riding IPs for too long. Let's not look farther than Nintendo my friend. Halo is still selling and the community asks for it.

Why don't you guys ever advise Nintendo to rest Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Star Fox, etc...?

Forza and Fable both have their followings that buy consoles for them. To dismiss them is unwise and oblivious to what's going on in their world.

Well goats, he is right though, i want me some halo 5 and forza 6 just as much as the next XB fan, but they do need something big and new to attract people and more so have mainstreamers talk about them...

It shouldn't be that freaking hard, 2 average games like TOLU and Uncharted did the trick for PS (don't get me wrong they are AAA titles, but they are not that much deeper or original than a halo, GOW, fable, sunset overdrive, they just pack what mainstreamers want right now, it's just like movies the biggest blockbuster of the year doesn't need to be the best movie of the year, just to pack the shit people need right here right now... ) and to be fair about the diversity argument PS does have an impressively diverse list of crap and people dig it just like they dig McDonald's it's been like that since PS 2 Pull out a massive amount of diverse crap with a average percentage of average crap and people are happy... Like I said dozens of times PS is the worst thing that happened to the VG industry... They mcdonalized the industry and people are "luv'in it"

True ninty is milking, but they have the ancestral iconic figures for them...

No one can run Splatoon!

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Just curious, how many Xbox ones will be sold thanks to being nice. If their are a bunch of nintendo fans who want to get an Xbox one it is because what they see what the platform delivers and not because of something a PR guy says about Nintendo. Like on early VGchartz we had a bunch of nintendo fans who were happy with the Wii and loved what Ms was doing with xbox 360 and started the Wii360 clan on Vgchartz sure you must remember...