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Originally Posted by Angrist
Maybe people just like playing established franchises. I know I'd rather play F-Zero than WipeOut. Rather Kid Icarus than God of War.
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I think it's quite obvious that people like playing established franchises, no arguing there...
Although I'd hardly call Kid Icarus an established franchise, since as it stands now, it's still a one-off game from like 20 years ago...
God of War, on the other hand, earned a 93% score on gamerankings and sold 3.2 million, despite not being an established franchise, and despite coming from a division of Sony who's only previous game was the middling racer
Kinetica...
It's success spawned a sequel, which earned a 92% rating and has sold 2 million, and a PSP game, which earned a 91%, and sold... Well, nobody buys PSP games...
But, when discussing the general public's reaction to a game, those stats are hardly anything to frown at...
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Fact is, you'd rather compete with God of War than with Zelda.
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That's true... But would you rather compete with Zelda or Final Fantasy? Zelda or Dragon Warrior? Zelda or Gran Turismo? Zelda or Grand Theft Auto?
Only 1 out of those 4 are from Sony, but all are high-quality games from established franchises which, at least during the previous two generations (which is when developers started becoming wary of Nintendo consoles), you could only find on Sony consoles, and that was my whole point...
The competition on Playstation and Xbox might not be coming from Sony and Microsoft, but it's still there, and it's still of very high quality...