At first glance my comments here will be seen as another fanboy rant. Partially you're not wrong; I am very loyal to Sony ever since I got my first PlayStation (present day PSone) console and to their games whether I play them or not. That aside I believed you also heard about how Sony is locking Fortnite accounts tied to their PSN preventing players from using their accounts to play with Microsoft Shitbox One (aka Xbox One) and Nintendo Switch. Many will say that Sony brought themselves and their players down because of their stance towards cross-play, it's all about money, this and that, yadayada etc.
Many, if not all, have failed to see the picture why Sony refused to go hand-in-hand with Switch and Shitbox.
And it all began with Nintendo.
The inception of what would become the released PlayStation dates back to 1986 with a joint venture between Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo had already produced floppy disk technology to complement cartridges, in the form of the Family Computer Disk System, and wanted to continue this complementary storage strategy for the Super Famicom. Nintendo approached Sony to develop a CD-ROM add-on, tentatively titled the "Play Station" or "SNES-CD". A contract was signed, and work began including a protoype to be shown for the CES.
Nintendo's President Hiroshi Yamauchi however secretly cancelled all plans for the joint Nintendo-Sony SNES CD attachment. Instead of announcing a partnership between Sony and Nintendo, at 9 am the day of the CES, Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln stepped onto the stage and revealed that Nintendo was now allied with Philips, and Nintendo was planning on abandoning all the previous work Nintendo and Sony had accomplished. Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa had, unbeknownst to Sony, flown to Philips' global headquarters in the Netherlands and formed an alliance thus making Sony a laughing stock.
Sony's Ken Kutaragi, the father of the PlayStation, took it hard but he never let it put him down and with the support of his employers from Sony he continued with the prototype and today we have the PlayStation.
This shows that Nintendo can be an evil corrupted backstabber. It wasn't even a business decision but a company-ending one. Years later Nintendo will steal the Biohazard series (Resident Evil) from Sony and almost made Capcom bankrupt as a result (twice; one which involved the Street Fighter II games on the Super NES and the reboot Biohazard series).
Microsoft and their Xbox or as I would prefer calling it, SHITBOX is another asshole. Their methods are the most disgusting ever in video game business history. They hampered numerous PS3 launch parties, paid reviewers to give Sony games lower scores (Edge magazine and Gametrailers.com are examples) tell developers not to showcase their titles at the Sony Conference, bribe and ()to my belief) even hire hackers to hack the PSN including paying off legal fees for a criminal hacker who hacked the PSN, George Hotz.
With Microsoft positively performing very badly now their only hope was to support cross-pay with Nintendo apart from going full greed by buying off various games companies like Ninja Theory. Sony opposes cross-play for a good reason given the history it has with both companies; one a f***ing backstabber and the other a disgraceful piece of shit which it refuses to admit.
I can only see it going bad for Microsoft down this road. It's lack of popularity with the Japanese gaming market, it's lack of exclusive titles and disgraceful past will only bring it down further.
Personally I'm not a fan of battle royale games like Fortnite and if Player Unknown Battlegrounds ever come to PS4 I'll be giving a miss and would rather kill myself in Ikaruga and Ketsui instead. My style for gaming has slowly changed over the years from being competitive to being a soloist player and one who prefers single player experience which the gaming scene so badly needs and Sony has shown that awesomely with Horizon Zero Dawn and God of War including 3rd party titles like my personal favourite; Nioh.
It's to my attention that there's cross-play for PS4 with PC and android mobile devices. But I don't care. But with two sickening enemies out to stab you back and f*** you up for doing better then them? No Way!
In the beginning I hated Resident Evil bcos I was more action-based. It will be later titles in the series that allow me to do what I've always wanted; run-n-gun, CQC on zombies and such making me feel badass! And despite my hatred of the restrictions, I enjoyed them very much. Furthermore if RE4, 5 and 6 were considered flops then why did they sell so much in the first place?
And why the remakes failed in the first place according IMO was bcos the series rightfully has no place on the Nintendo Gamecube! They should've made it for PS2 back then.
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