Why does PS3 get the cold shoulder, when it comes to adventure games?
Xbox 360's audience is very similar, yet the PS3 has yet to receive the numerous point n click adventures that have been released thus far.
And you'd think with Heavy Rain on the way, that we'd at least see Secret of Monkey Island:SE or Broken Sword:DC.
And you'd think with Heavy Rain on the way, that we'd at least see Secret of Monkey Island:SE or Broken Sword:DC.
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Honestly though, I'm not sure. The only thing I can think of is that the PS3 Dev Kit isn't as user-friendly as the X-Box 360 one, which I think I read somewhere, but beyond that...
(My brother has a 360 and mostly shooters there so I can see where that thought came from)
It's a shame that PS3 is so hard to work for. Must definitely be the main reason why most companies go for Xbox. Well, loving my PS3 anyway!
Plus I'm sure it will get better over time when people learn to use the hardware.. in fact, PS3 is definitely getting more and more games nowadays than it did during its launch
So developing on PS3 = investment
Adventure games = not so big returns (maybe)
That said Heavy Rain looks awesome and it makes me jealous
I'm a big JRPG fan, but ps3 is the place to be for them. PS3 has a bunch of exclusives such as Valkyria Chronicles, Disgaea and the upcoming Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and all the JRPG's that have been released on 360 were released a year later on ps3 with bonus additions (Eternal Sonata, Star Ocean, Last Remnant).
PS3 has a pretty big fan base, and the majority of 360 users are just after FPS's. We should probably start a poll to find out, but I imagine more adventure game fans have ps3s over 360s. Still, I'm not sure.
PS3 costs a lot to develop games for. Didn't seem to daunt double fine though...
I really have no idea, I guess it's also the view the internet has given us. Everytime there's a Xbox vs. Ps3 fight going on, xbox fans go on about all the FPS titles released on the console. (mostly Halo, can't remember the rest of them.)
When I was doing the choice between 360 and Ps3, I just almost immediately got a vision that Ps3 would be better for me, since I love adventure games.
Maybe it's also because ps1 and ps2 were, in fact, quite centered in those genres, if I'm not all mistaken. Ratchet & Clanks, Jak & Daxters and Final Fantasies (+ tons of other jrpgs) made ps2 quite popular. I got a ps2 around 4 years ago and I came to love it even more than my Wii and DS, so I kind of felt safer to go on with Ps3 next.
(Plus, with FFXIII and The Last Guardian on their ways, I knew I would long for a ps3 sooner or later.
But yeah, I don't know. Xbox has Fable, and I rememember seeing some other fantasy titles on the 360 self last time I went for game shopping, so it's quite possible that it's getting a little more popularity on the genre. (and heck, they already got Sam & Max too, one thing that Ps3 is still missing. )
However, I still think Ps3 as a main "adventure gaming console", with all these exclusive titles that are slowly following it from the ps2 era.
Lost Odyssey is definetly worth the money!
There's actually a really big Western RPG fanbase on the 360, which generally correlates more with the adventure fans than the JRPG fans. Mostly because Western RPGs and adventures kind of came out of the same place and time period, is all.
I have a 360, though I'm not really zealous about it or anything. Now that Blu-Ray is the big new theater standard, I am kind of miffed that I need a separate device in my theater set-up to play my disk-based movies than I use for all of my network media streaming, and there are definitely PS3 titles I'm interested in(Heavy Rain, 3D Dot Heroes, Demon's Souls, Little Big Planet). But I'm certainly not unhappy with my 360, or its set of exclusives that I own.
It also costs a lot of money to hire big-name actors and run a giant advertising campaign, but when you have EA fully backing your project you're more or less able to dip your balls in gold if you so choose.
I'm certainly not trying to make a pro-360 console argument, by the way. I honestly don't care what model of game machine you use any more than I care what kind of toaster you use. The PS3 definitely has some nice benefits, with some good exclusives, the more "open" nature of it(I really wish I could swap out my hard drive that easily on the 360), and I like the fact that it plays and is one of the best current options for playing what is now the standard for high def content. Just noticed some exaggerations, generalizations, and factual errors in the post.
In all seriousness, I own all 3 current gen consoles & rarely touch any of them other than the 360 *& no... I don't play FPSs. As a matter of fact, there are only 6 FPSs across ALL systems that I actually like*.
I could be wrong about this, but I vaguely remember hearing that MS was trying to woo over the Japanese market by paying for exclusivity, timed or otherwise, on JRPGs. That's why it's been getting so many.