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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 9961, member: 73"] Two big reasons: [LIST] [*][B]During the time of the PS1, PS2, and PSP, Sony was still very much a conservative Japanese company making games primarily for a Japanese audience. [/B]American audiences were certainly a huge market, of course, but the Playstation's Eastern and Western teams weren't united like they are today. The people in charge of the brand were suit-wearing businessmen based out of Tokyo who gave directions to Sony of America (and Europe). These days, Sony's HQ is in California, and it's essentially a second-tier modern American technology business. This leads us to: [/LIST] [LIST] [*][B]The Playstation brand's success made it too big to ignore for AAA developers. [/B]If you were an American FPS developer making big-budget games for consoles, the PS2's install base was just too lucrative [I]not [/I]to focus on by the year 2004 or so. That brought far more American devs to the brand, which brought far more money to Sony, so those people started having far more seats at the table, and here we are. By the time of seventh generation, the PS3 and Xbox 360 had essentially become variations on the same console. [/LIST] You've gotta remember: [B]Sony was a [U]music technology[/U][/B] [B]company until about 1994. [/B]They were focused on making CDs and Walkmans and boomboxes, and nobody expected this 3D gaming bullshit to get as big as it did. (That's why a lot of PS1 games were spearheaded by musicians, and why CD games were so easy to get into for Sony.) Their ethos was completely different from a company like Nintendo, Sega, and later Microsoft, but it couldn't survive if they wanted to be a serious competitor in the gaming space, so they had to adapt. (Not, dare I say, for the better.) [/QUOTE]

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