Do you want X to be doomed? Why?

Yes, Microsoft can go away.

tjricardo089

None...but its obvious vita and sony are doomed. I told my sony fanboy friend about sony's financial numbers and he started crying pathetically. He wailed that without playstation and drake he would kill himself. I felt bad. :(

I wouldn't mind if motion controls were to die off till be get much, much better tech.

I would like to see casual gaming and DLC to die off... I really would. I know that they bring in a lot of money, but I just don't care for them and there is more to life than making lots of money. I miss the days when the dev and publisher just really wanted to make a great game. There was almost no advertising and the entire budget went towards making the game, not PR/marketing.

I would be sad if any of the 3 left. I don't really like hearing a console leaves the market because it normally means I lose a great series I liked or we get a dead carcass being thrown around like it still has some life left in it. I may be a sheep, but I have respect for Sony and Microsoft.

I hate to say it but I would like to see Nintendo leave the Hardware market. I hate my Wii system. I like some games on it like Smash bros. and Zelda: TP but they could be multiplat.

Not willing to buy outdated ip's at full price that only get released on a very narrow schedule per generation. The fact that there have been two of each major franchise this generation only happened because of the horrible lack of Third party support.

fadersdream

But practically every major franchise on all the consoles has seen 2 or more games release this gen.

Halo has had 3 (4 if you count Anniversary)

Elder Scrolls had 2

Gears has had 3

Final Fantasy has had 3 (plus many, many smaller games)

Uncharted has had 3

Assasin's Creed has had too many

Fallout has had 2

Fable has had 2

LittleBig Planet has had 2, plus a handheld title

plus many other titles I can't think of at the moment.

[QUOTE="Shewgenja"]

I'm all for competition.. Fair competition, that is. If you had read my last post you would see why, in my opinion, I don't think that one of the brands has really played by those rules. You can get away with a lot when you're willing to pump a billion dollars in advertising money into gaming magazines and websites to promote a simple peripheral. This is the same company that is famous for such things as Halloween Documents, Ferrari laptops and one of the few companies on earth that hires anthropologists to help target their marketing. I'm not saying it's not effective. If you want to buy into that kind of thing. What I'm saying is that it doesn't necessarily promote gaming to any hitherto unseen heights of quality and greatness. To take it a step further.. This hasn't been the "Call of Duty" generation for no reason, either.

This is just my opinion.. But I just don't see how people justify their love of the Microsoft XBox this gen. Last gen, I was all about it. I thought MSes focus on making a powerful system was much needed. I thought that they'd be BUILDING more development studios as they became more successful and mainstream. After all, as a gamer, I want games. Good ones, at that. What we have received this generation from them has been very short of what they could deliver us all in the name of trying to turn the profitability of the division up with as LITTLE effort as possible on their part. Effective business strategy? Oh, yes indeed. Five map packs to every game and updates/fixes galore because this setup favors one platform and it's userbase over the others? Yes, effective. But does it benefit the gamer?

No. It doesn't. Quit being a soulless puppet. When you started gaming, you didn't care about any of this unless your older brother/sister tried to instill the virtues of fandom on you. What counts are the games. For me, as a gamer, they took all the goodwill they gained by actually doing everything they said they would do and monetized it early on this generation then crapped all over it.

I_am_a_PS3_FB

and this person just pointed out everything that is wrong with M$

seriously the only microsoft product I appreciate is windows XP and windows 7 (and to a lesser extent ms office)

none of their exclusives are 'unique' they just milk franchises to get money

Really? Three quick examples:

Mario Galaxy 1, 2, Kart, Party, Tennis, Golf (Nintendo)

Resistance 1, 2, 3 (Sony)

Uncharted 1, 2, 3 (Sony)

[QUOTE="fadersdream"]

I hate to say it but I would like to see Nintendo leave the Hardware market. I hate my Wii system. I like some games on it like Smash bros. and Zelda: TP but they could be multiplat.

Not willing to buy outdated ip's at full price that only get released on a very narrow schedule per generation. The fact that there have been two of each major franchise this generation only happened because of the horrible lack of Third party support.

WiiCubeM1

But practically every major franchise on all the consoles has seen 2 or more games release this gen.

Halo has had 3 (4 if you count Anniversary)

Elder Scrolls had 2

Gears has had 3

Final Fantasy has had 3 (plus many, many smaller games)

Uncharted has had 3

Assasin's Creed has had too many

Fallout has had 2

Fable has had 2

LittleBig Planet has had 2, plus a handheld title

plus many other titles I can't think of at the moment.

Nintendo has made it clear they make amazing software.

Nintendo has made it clear they make mediocre hardware.

If what you're really great at is making software then just make software, especially when your hardware doesn't do anything except facilitate your software. There are many easier ways to accomplish that that wouldn't make gamers spend hundred$ of dollars just for the privilige.

With the impending doom of Sony that this board reminds me of daily, I'm curious.

Does anyone here actually want to see one of the big three pull out of gaming? Or out of business altogether? Would it pleas you?

Because it sure does seem that way with some of the comments I've seen. And this isn't in reference to just all the alt accounts around, nor is it just about the sky falling on Sony. But rather its a question aimed at more veteran posters with high level and post-count from all sides of the System War.

And if so, why exactly?

Below level 10 alts need not answer.

shinrabanshou

I dont want any of these companies to fail. People will lose jobs, thats not cool. Ive been made redundant before and its a really bad time.

That being said, I would like to see MS take a hit to the balls, only for the reason that Id like them to not charge for online gaming, and not set a trend in the industry to charge users for this once the game has been paid for, and your broadband has been paid for. Its something I fundamentaly disagree with doing.

The only way thats ever going to change, is if MS take one to the knee, and need to get people to come back. Sadly, that doesnt seem likely. The others I wish well.

[QUOTE="I_am_a_PS3_FB"]

[QUOTE="Shewgenja"]

I'm all for competition.. Fair competition, that is. If you had read my last post you would see why, in my opinion, I don't think that one of the brands has really played by those rules. You can get away with a lot when you're willing to pump a billion dollars in advertising money into gaming magazines and websites to promote a simple peripheral. This is the same company that is famous for such things as Halloween Documents, Ferrari laptops and one of the few companies on earth that hires anthropologists to help target their marketing. I'm not saying it's not effective. If you want to buy into that kind of thing. What I'm saying is that it doesn't necessarily promote gaming to any hitherto unseen heights of quality and greatness. To take it a step further.. This hasn't been the "Call of Duty" generation for no reason, either.

This is just my opinion.. But I just don't see how people justify their love of the Microsoft XBox this gen. Last gen, I was all about it. I thought MSes focus on making a powerful system was much needed. I thought that they'd be BUILDING more development studios as they became more successful and mainstream. After all, as a gamer, I want games. Good ones, at that. What we have received this generation from them has been very short of what they could deliver us all in the name of trying to turn the profitability of the division up with as LITTLE effort as possible on their part. Effective business strategy? Oh, yes indeed. Five map packs to every game and updates/fixes galore because this setup favors one platform and it's userbase over the others? Yes, effective. But does it benefit the gamer?

No. It doesn't. Quit being a soulless puppet. When you started gaming, you didn't care about any of this unless your older brother/sister tried to instill the virtues of fandom on you. What counts are the games. For me, as a gamer, they took all the goodwill they gained by actually doing everything they said they would do and monetized it early on this generation then crapped all over it.

brennanhuff

and this person just pointed out everything that is wrong with M$

seriously the only microsoft product I appreciate is windows XP and windows 7 (and to a lesser extent ms office)

none of their exclusives are 'unique' they just milk franchises to get money

Really? Three quick examples:

Mario Galaxy 1, 2, Kart, Party, Tennis, Golf (Nintendo)

Resistance 1, 2, 3 (Sony)

Uncharted 1, 2, 3 (Sony)

halo, halo 2, halo 3 , halo reach, halo ODST, halo CE :D and then you have the game with the musclebound mini giants with guns with chainsaws and chins wider than than the pacific ocean, I kinda forgot the game, epic warfare or something...

I'm telling you, they milked the SH*T out of halo and several other formely good franchises.

and their 100% focus on profits is killing creativity, they just throw money at stuff and hope for the best.

I can buy a 500 dollar pair of pants, but with some creativity I can make a 50 dollar pair look better.