Now, if you guys know me at all you
know that I'm a huge Sony fanboy and I think that the entirety of the
Sony consoles is the greatest achievement of the console gaming
community. For me Sony has always been the noninnovator crowd, they
catered more to the developers than to their fans making their
console highly accesible by having as many different gaming
experiences as possible to choose from, that was after all one of the
biggest problem that I saw with the Playstation Battle Royale
project, was that Sony while maintaining quite the crowd of big IP's
didn't have the huge icons that Nintendo had for their Smash Brothers
franchise. Nintendo tries to innovate and keep it simple in their
approach to games, the overall gaming stable they have is littered
with the same IP's over and over again but with big tweeks and turns
to keep it interesting, that is also why Nintendo has been steadily
delivering new gameplay ideas, because the next mario cannot live on
jump'n'running alone but needs differences. I needed to start this
off with that paragraph because It's mandatory to know where I come
from when it comes to Sony, and you might understand my surprise when
Sony suddenly lashed out at consumers and e-sports with their whole
„always on“(not really but kind of) social gaming thing and the
whole Psvita synchronisation thing. Sony has pulled all the stops
that Nintendo did with their Wii U and upgraded every single one of
their ideas without making it seem gimmicky. The social gaming stuff
has never been my cup of tea but let's playing is a great thing and
interesting to watch, the console is also powerful, adaptable and
seems to have quite the support from developers without lashing out
to them outright like I think the PS2 did with it's no innovation but
only improvement approach to a new console. Sony is making a step
that Nintendo has never considered I think, that is, lashing out to a
new consumer market without alienating it's core basis by asking the
developers to help in making the console and by adding every new
thing as not a gimmick but a geniune take it or leave it idea. The
consumer gets the best end of the trade at this point I feel, but of
course that may change with a mere number namely the price for the
new console.
Also fuck XBOX.
-adios,D.
P.S.: Sony really has no clue how to
build up tension do they? They put the Blizzard guy somewhere near
the end but not at the absolute end even though he was the stunner of
the night and a great speaker, instead they show us four people of
which only one talks and Square announces the announcement that
they'll announce a new Final Fantasy at E3. I love Square but they
seriously have to up the ante if they want to survive.
