I guess the good news is, Sony doesn't need to buy their way around to still be at the top of their "game" get it, made a funny :D. With where you started until now.
MGS4 = Game of the year 2008 (or) LBP depending on where you look.
KZ2 = Will be game of the year 2009
GOW3 = will be game of the year come 2010 or FFXIII for the PS3.
As we can look ahead and see what's coming. It seems knowing the market yields better results than buying the market. Plus, as well all know. It may seem like Sony is getting the hand me downs. But at least it will come on one disc ( blu-ray ) if need be. So harder yes, more potential yes to that as well.
good write up :)
MGS4 = Game of the year 2008 (or) LBP depending on where you look.
KZ2 = Will be game of the year 2009
GOW3 = will be game of the year come 2010 or FFXIII for the PS3.
As we can look ahead and see what's coming. It seems knowing the market yields better results than buying the market. Plus, as well all know. It may seem like Sony is getting the hand me downs. But at least it will come on one disc ( blu-ray ) if need be. So harder yes, more potential yes to that as well.
good write up :)
I disagree. This Console war is unlike any other because Online has revolutionized gaming. No longer do we have to jump through menu after menu to get online. Now as soon as we turn on our consoles we are connected. What does this have to do with anything? Well look at it this way. Sony for the PS1 built up Third part support and had a Advertising campaign that was like no other. Same with the PS2, The PS2 felt like the future because of the way every commercial ended with the pulse through the PS2 Logo. Nintendo did do what you mentioned and yes they are still doing it today.
But to get back on track, like I said things have changed with Online. Remember Grand Theft Auto San Andreas? You could be glued to the screen for hours only to find out when you went back and looked at your Yahoo messenger to find out your friends have been begging you to go on Call of Duty 2 for Five hours.
Now, When you were playing GTA IV your friends could easily send you a message you will see clear as day stating "Want to Play some Resistance 2?". So the Technology is completely Different and I will get to where this is relevant soon.
With Amazing new Online what else did we get? A market place, Now instead of complete games being exclusives we get Add-ons. So I disagree with the 360 getting all the third party games. They are just getting all the add-on content.
Now in no way am I suggesting that Sony has better third party support because it doesn't. But make no mistake these strategies are completely different then what they did in the past. And I have a feeling when people start seeing that Sony has all the GOOD games, people will drip their 360's and Wii's and go back to their roots PlayStation.
Although the 360 now has better third party support then Sony. I have a feeling that will change when programmers start getting familiar with the system. That is my opinion with this console race.
But to get back on track, like I said things have changed with Online. Remember Grand Theft Auto San Andreas? You could be glued to the screen for hours only to find out when you went back and looked at your Yahoo messenger to find out your friends have been begging you to go on Call of Duty 2 for Five hours.
Now, When you were playing GTA IV your friends could easily send you a message you will see clear as day stating "Want to Play some Resistance 2?". So the Technology is completely Different and I will get to where this is relevant soon.
With Amazing new Online what else did we get? A market place, Now instead of complete games being exclusives we get Add-ons. So I disagree with the 360 getting all the third party games. They are just getting all the add-on content.
Now in no way am I suggesting that Sony has better third party support because it doesn't. But make no mistake these strategies are completely different then what they did in the past. And I have a feeling when people start seeing that Sony has all the GOOD games, people will drip their 360's and Wii's and go back to their roots PlayStation.
Although the 360 now has better third party support then Sony. I have a feeling that will change when programmers start getting familiar with the system. That is my opinion with this console race.
I have to disagree with the article, true, MS had more third party exclusives but they are slowly coming to PS3 and most games today are multiplatform. The only thing that differentiates the consoles are the First Party games and the few exclusives that either side has been able to lure or flat out buy.
Even the one year lead of MS is not as commanding as everyone believes. In the US it is a big gap but compared to the rest of the world Sony isn't very far behind in sales given that one year lead.
In the end MS is still MS, they will buy whatever they can get their hands on and use their very deep pockets to stop a game from coming to the competition. All the while their first party studios dry out. They want the whole market to themselves so they will try to go casual and hardcore succeeding only in one.
Sony is still Sony, they keep to their guns, aren't afraid to innovate and create new first party franchises and they keep improving it's system, today's PS3 is not the same as the launch PS3 (yeah, I know no PS2 compatibility ¬_¬). They are the hardcore gamer console, the one that will get the quirky japanese games, the independent studios and the brand new franchises.
And Nintendo is still Nintendo, Innovation, great first party games but a little detached from the hardcore gamers.
And just another thing to add to the article, it seems that it was written one year ago, games aren't made on 360 first anymore so no hand me downs a lot are now even made on PS3 first and then ported to 360.
And the old whiney "PS3 is too dificult whahh wahhh" is no longer an issue as "real" programmers have managed to get the architecture down bringing games to the console that are virtually identical to it's 360 cousins.
Even the one year lead of MS is not as commanding as everyone believes. In the US it is a big gap but compared to the rest of the world Sony isn't very far behind in sales given that one year lead.
In the end MS is still MS, they will buy whatever they can get their hands on and use their very deep pockets to stop a game from coming to the competition. All the while their first party studios dry out. They want the whole market to themselves so they will try to go casual and hardcore succeeding only in one.
Sony is still Sony, they keep to their guns, aren't afraid to innovate and create new first party franchises and they keep improving it's system, today's PS3 is not the same as the launch PS3 (yeah, I know no PS2 compatibility ¬_¬). They are the hardcore gamer console, the one that will get the quirky japanese games, the independent studios and the brand new franchises.
And Nintendo is still Nintendo, Innovation, great first party games but a little detached from the hardcore gamers.
And just another thing to add to the article, it seems that it was written one year ago, games aren't made on 360 first anymore so no hand me downs a lot are now even made on PS3 first and then ported to 360.
And the old whiney "PS3 is too dificult whahh wahhh" is no longer an issue as "real" programmers have managed to get the architecture down bringing games to the console that are virtually identical to it's 360 cousins.
