Post by Kazuya_UK on May 3, 2005 8:38:00 GMT -5
Cos thats what mainstreamers like - it's not just kiddies, but mainstream gaming adults too. Here's an example... I work in a store where we are selling import PSP's and also a few Nintendo DS's. Before I say what I'm about to say, I do own a PSP and plan on buying a DS later this year as I like them both...
Anyway, you should hear the kind of comments we get from gamers that come in here to look at both consoles. Here's a few real comments I've heard:
1. "OMG, look how shit and old school that Nintendo one looks like! I heard its got SNES style graphics ennit?"
2. "The PSP is gonna be way better yo... PSP is like having PS2 in your hands, who cares what games are out when it's got gfx like that?"
3. "I don't know why anyone would want to buy that new handheld Nintendo Playstation!"
Those really are all real comments...1 and 2 show how dumb many gamers are, while 3 shows how ignorant they are. By ignorant I mean the fact that SO MANY people use "Playstation" as an umbrella phrase to refer to ALL consoles and PC's. such is the way they have allowed themselves to be been brainwashed in recent years.
Anyway, I'm not really hating on any particular console as I'm the sort of person who tends to buy all the consoles that come out providing there are games that interest me, I don't care who they are by and which has the best gfx, I just buy em all when i can afford them and just concern myself with the important part: playing games that I find fun
The only thing that irks me is that all these ignorant gamers are the real people to blame for a deluge of unoriginal games, or games that have great gfx and nothing else. The companies mainly want to make money and survive (they are businesses afterall), so they simply provide gamers with what the majority of them want. If gamers turn their noses up at 2D games no matter how good they are, companies like Sony won't make them. If more of them opened up their minds and enjoyed them for what they are instead of just labelling anything 2D as "cartoony", "for kids" or "old school", then perhaps SCEA would re-think its stance, maybe SNK would actually try to do some new stuff, and perhaps Capcom would still be pumping out good 2D titles too.
Not gonna happen now though I'm afraid.
Kaz
Anyway, you should hear the kind of comments we get from gamers that come in here to look at both consoles. Here's a few real comments I've heard:
1. "OMG, look how shit and old school that Nintendo one looks like! I heard its got SNES style graphics ennit?"
2. "The PSP is gonna be way better yo... PSP is like having PS2 in your hands, who cares what games are out when it's got gfx like that?"
3. "I don't know why anyone would want to buy that new handheld Nintendo Playstation!"
Those really are all real comments...1 and 2 show how dumb many gamers are, while 3 shows how ignorant they are. By ignorant I mean the fact that SO MANY people use "Playstation" as an umbrella phrase to refer to ALL consoles and PC's. such is the way they have allowed themselves to be been brainwashed in recent years.
Anyway, I'm not really hating on any particular console as I'm the sort of person who tends to buy all the consoles that come out providing there are games that interest me, I don't care who they are by and which has the best gfx, I just buy em all when i can afford them and just concern myself with the important part: playing games that I find fun
The only thing that irks me is that all these ignorant gamers are the real people to blame for a deluge of unoriginal games, or games that have great gfx and nothing else. The companies mainly want to make money and survive (they are businesses afterall), so they simply provide gamers with what the majority of them want. If gamers turn their noses up at 2D games no matter how good they are, companies like Sony won't make them. If more of them opened up their minds and enjoyed them for what they are instead of just labelling anything 2D as "cartoony", "for kids" or "old school", then perhaps SCEA would re-think its stance, maybe SNK would actually try to do some new stuff, and perhaps Capcom would still be pumping out good 2D titles too.
Not gonna happen now though I'm afraid.
Kaz
