Sony: Microsoft is reliant on Shooters

[esperandote]

Soon the will tell us that Nintendo is reliant on motion control.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Videogame company relies on most popular format to drive sales! Shock!

Next up: Fish, a crippling dependency on water?

 

[Canid117]

yeh i agree, although i do like my ps3, they do have a lot of shooters, but they also have, fable, crackdown, forza and... would you count mass effect as a shooter?

No, it's an RPG first and foremost.

Microsoft does rely on shooters to an extent, but they have plenty of other games too.

It is actually a shooter and an RPG. The combat it uses is shooter based with (very) heavy RPG elements but it also has Gear, Levels, conversation trees and all that other RPGish goodness that we all know and love. Being a shooter and being an RPG are not exactly mutually exclusive.

 

[Booze Zombie]

that sort of attitude (even in jest) is actually really detrimental to the gaming industry, as it's about the opposite of what is actually true, but it's what everyone believes

I do commend you on not assuming I was being serious, though the 12 year old's with twitch reflexes and their parent's money, obviously do make up a percentage of the console's income stream, of course.

But yes, shooting games are like sandwiches in cafes, they're the basic which you know everyone's going to buy because it's something easy you can get into.
Only problem with video games is that the sandwiches cost just as much as the damn lobster thermidor...

 

[Snotnarok]

This just in: Big name companies need to shut their big dumb mouths and stop verbally attacking eachother, it fools no one and makes them look stupid. Hey sony how about you make good on your word and work on some games that aren't all shooters to prove us all wrong.

Next week tune in when I eat my own leg. Back to you Melissa!

 

[Altorin]

that sort of attitude (even in jest) is actually really detrimental to the gaming industry, as it's about the opposite of what is actually true, but it's what everyone believes

I do commend you on not assuming I was being serious, though the 12 year old's with twitch reflexes and their parent's money, obviously do make up a percentage of the console's income stream, of course.

I knew you were kidding, I was just saying that sort of joke doesn't help us as gamers at all because the average gamer is 30, and stereotypes like that not being quashed holds us back

 

[Valkyrie101]

yeh i agree, although i do like my ps3, they do have a lot of shooters, but they also have, fable, crackdown, forza and... would you count mass effect as a shooter?

No, it's an RPG first and foremost.

Microsoft does rely on shooters to an extent, but they have plenty of other games too.

It is actually a shooter and an RPG. The combat it uses is shooter based with (very) heavy RPG elements but it also has Gear, Levels, conversation trees and all that other RPGish goodness that we all know and love. Being a shooter and being an RPG are not exactly mutually exclusive.

I was referring to RPG being its primary genre. It has shooter elements (namely the shooting), but for me, a shooter is a game that exists purely because of the shooting, e.g. CoD or Halo, where the whole point is to ventilate some unpleasant people.

It's really an action RPG, in that it includes quite a lot of combat, but ultimately the point of the game is the RPG side.

 

[archf13nd]

And the PS3 isn't?

Everything is shooter-centric these days on 360, PC, and PS3.

Third or first person, shooters are the norm!

This is pretty accurate, most games coming out now a days are shooters. So that pretty much means the whole industry is depending on them right now.

 

[mikecoulter]

Then how do they explain Kinect? The most useless medium of control for a shooting game that I've seen.

 

[BloodSquirrel]

http://play.tm/news/31889/sony-takes-jab-at-microsoft-says-360-is-reliant-on-shooters/

Well I thought that was obvious.

They've got two big shooters: Halo and Gears. Meanwhile, they spent most of last E3 trying to sell Kinect.

 

[cerebus23]

sony is still miles behind ms when it comes to shooters, and most of ms shooters are wholly generic cheap knock offs, where sonys main shooters are all AAA productions they lack the over glut of b and c grade shooters that flood the xbox market to get a few bucks off the teen boys that play that system in droves.

 

[bak00777]

i feel it is because shooters just work better with the 360's controller rather that the PS3 controller, but thats just my opinion.

 

[Yagharek]

sony is still miles behind ms when it comes to shooters, and most of ms shooters are wholly generic cheap knock offs, where sonys main shooters are all AAA productions they lack the over glut of b and c grade shooters that flood the xbox market to get a few bucks off the teen boys that play that system in droves.

Are you being serious?

OT: Stupid thing to say. As most of the thread has pointed out, you just have to look at the titles sony is pushing to see the idiocy of the statement. Personally I dislike what seems to be a recent spike in negative advertising.

 

[mrpoy]

I would say that Sony is making an unfair claim for one point

"We've never been reliant on one product genre like one of our competitors," Peter Dille,-Nicholas Gasse

Sony has been and still is overly focused on the JRPGs

 

[C95J]

It's not like Sony don't have lots of shooters coming out for the PS3 as well.

I bet they only did this because of the success of Halo: Reach and the Xbox 360...

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Well ... PC controls work best for shooters ... but PCs tend to just get console ports of shooters whilst getting some nice RTS/RPG love as well. I know there are exceptions to the rule ... but I think PC gamers have much more diversity despite having the best (hands down) controls for shooters.

so I don't understand the argument of MS controller = better than Sony ... therefore shooters are better/naturally more prevalent on this console.

If that was the case PCs would be inundated with much more than just console ports if that were the case. Particularly given most modern gaming rigs could kick 7 types of shit out of both the Xbox and PS3 combined. (Edit) From a graphics and gameplay perspective anyways....

 

[godofallu]

If you like shooters you get a 360, if you like Jrpg's you get a playstation. Doesn't everyone already know that?

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Is Sony still hurting from when Killzone was vaunted as "THE HALO KILLER" and fell very short of earning its hype-title? Sounds likes some sour grapes to me.