not just souLLy now wrote:I can't honestly see the PS3 ever really gaining much momentum now, we're already pretty far into this generation and any PS3 games worth owning are also available on the 360- which is significantly cheaper.
Tastes differ. A lot of people thought that MGS4, Motorstorm, Uncharted, GT5 Prologue et. al. were worth owning (out of that list, I only own MGS4; the others don't really interest me, but they sold well).
The biggest problem I think is the PS3 doesn't have an identity; Wii has it's family/party gaming, 360 is for hardcore/online gamers... PS3 is... a... blu ray player?
This is probably related to the issue of PS3 not really dominating in any genre. 360 obviously dominates first-person shooters because MS had Bungie and because it's the natural choice for Windows developers in general (also doesn't hurt that Gabe Newell apparently loathes the PS3). Oddly enough, it also seems to be dominating niche Japanese arcade ports, although that's probably related to most of the current arcade games being PC-based. A lot of people expected PS3 to be a shoo-in for the RPG system, but thanks to various delays, Mistwalker, a 360 FF13 port, and DS getting Dragon Quest IX, that's turned out to not be the case. The only PS3-exclusive RPG that's actually done and that anyone says is worth a damn is Demon's Souls, and that still hasn't come to North America or Europe. On the SRPG front there's Disgaea 3, but apart from that NIS mostly seems to be interested in repackaging old stuff for Wii, PSP, and as overpriced Disgaea 3 DLC.
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