The only down side to being a fan of Playstation

[GothicSlenderman]

(BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING I AM A FAN OF BOTH PLAYSTATION AND NINTENDO SO I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO THINK THAT I'M MAKING THIS FOR A FLAME WAR OR AN EXCUSE TO BE A FANBOY)

I have a belief that one of the best things that sell a console is it's games and/or exclusives. Now matter the power of the system or history. Nearly every company has that one character...

Nintendo - Mario, Link, Pikachu, ect
Sony - Kratos, Ratchet, Parappa
Microsoft - Master Chief & Banjo-Kazooie
PC Gaming - Anything Valve related or Indie
Capcom - Megaman, Ryu, Dante, ect
Namco - Pacman, Lloyd Irving, Heihachi
SEGA- Sonic, Bayonetta, ect.

But there's one probably with Playstation and most of it isn't their fault. Characters come and go. Some Nintendo fans may go on how the Wii U hasn't been selling that well but hey at least fans of Nintendo get to keep their characters and see them a lot. With the only loss being Rare.

But as a Playstation fan it's always more of a "I wonder how long it will be before we have to say goodbye this guy"

Crash Bandicoot - Owned by Activision
Spyro the Dragon - Owned by Activision
Cloud - is coming back to Playstation...first and will be multiplatform later and is in Smash (not to say that is a bad thing sense he is my best character in that game)
Croc - Who knows?
Abe- Came back once on PS4 but doesn't show his face a lot
Dante - Only comes back for crossovers and special ocations and it seems that Capcom doesn't care about him
Gex - Who knows?
Parrapa, Spike, Sir Danielle - Fell of the face of the earth and only came back for re-releases and Playstation Allstars
Tomba, Cpt. Blasto - Who knows?
Kingdom Hearts, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy - Multiplatform

The only ones we've still got (That are still going sense the past 5 years or so) are Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Uncharted, InFamous, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet & The Last of Us. But how long will it be till they're gone?

Nintendo to this day still has Mario, Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, Metroid, Starfox, Yoshi, Fire Emblem, Earthbound, F-Zero, Xenoblade, Smash, Punch-Out, ect. Some are seen more than others but we at least can still know that they're still with Nintendo.

Plus, Smash Bros Wii U/3DS has Sonic, Megaman, Pacman, Ryu, Cloud & Bayonetta, Project X Zone 1 & 2 use many famous characters from SEGA, Capcom, Namco & some Nintendo.

The closest thing we got was Heihachi, DMC Dante, Raiden, Big Daddy & Isaac Clarke in Playstation Allstars, Cole McGrath, Toro & Kuro in Street Fighter X Tekken & Kratos in both Mortal Kombat and Shovel Knight.

And the most recent games with Cloud & Dante are on Nintendo systems even though they started on Playstation.

It's hard to be a Playstation fan in the sense, for there are some many faces I miss and might not ever see again. And the only ones I still can see are on every other system imaginable. I'm not claiming Nintendo or Microsoft "Stole" our characters. In fact, I'm glad those characters are at least still alive unlike Croc, Gex, Crash & Spyro.

 

[TryrushDeppy]

Sony has continually had weaksauce first-party exclusives since the PS3 gen. But they have the benefit of not having to always pay moneyhats to get third-party exclusives from Japanese devs, like Nintendo and MS usually do nowadays. Though Microsoft is now claiming that Rise of the Tomb Raider was the last time you'll see them cut such a deal with a third-party publisher, and it was only a timed exclusive.

Still, I think Sony's been having a harder time of that lately with the steep industry-wide decline the Japanese console market is facing, as many more projects forgo consoles entirely in favor of mobile. Hence Street Fighter V being bought out and funded as an exclusive.

 

[Ocarina Stealer]

Dammit you reminded me about Crash, Spyro and PaRappa.

 

[finalark]

Croc - Who knows?
Gex - Who knows?

But Croc and Gex were never PS exclusive.

That being said, we're living in an age where characters don't really matter. In the old days, when video games were targeted at kids, companies used characters because they new that kids would remember a mascot, not a company name.

But now video games are primarily targeted at adults, to whom characters don't really matters. Most adults will go for brand recognition rather than a mascot.

Although I'd kill for a new Insomniac developed Spyro game.

 

[Ocarina Stealer]

Although I'd kill for a new Insomniac developed Spyro game.

Spyro has been absolutely ruined recently. It's painful.

 

[finalark]

Spyro has been absolutely ruined recently. It's painful.

Spyro's been trash for over a decade now.

The original three were great, the Enter the Dragonfly could have been good but was driven into the ground by deadlines and Christmas, I actually thought that Hero's Tail was pretty good /unpopularopinion and word of mouth tells me that everything after that was trash.

I really wish Insomniac had kept the rights and just stopped at Year of the Dragon.

 

[Ocarina Stealer]

Spyro's been trash for over a decade now.

The original three were great, the Enter the Dragonfly could have been good but was driven into the ground by deadlines and Christmas, I actually thought that Hero's Tail was pretty good /unpopularopinion and word of mouth tells me that everything after that was trash.

I really wish Insomniac had kept the rights and just stopped at Year of the Dragon.

Yeah I kinda gave up after Enter the Dragonfly. I will forever hang on to the GBA Spyro.

 

[TryrushDeppy]

The last good Spyro was the GBA version of Eternal Night. It was made by some fighting game nerds and has a pretty good approximation of a Devil May Cry-style combat system in 2D. Great graphics for the platform, too.

 

[asia_catdog_blue]

Spyro's been trash for over a decade now.

The original three were great, the Enter the Dragonfly could have been good but was driven into the ground by deadlines and Christmas, I actually thought that Hero's Tail was pretty good /unpopularopinion and word of mouth tells me that everything after that was trash.

I really wish Insomniac had kept the rights and just stopped at Year of the Dragon.

Don't push your luck. Insomniac stop giving a crap about Spyro after realizing they can't do more with him(they said it. Hell, they didn't like that Spyro can't even hold a gun). They were glad to give him back to Vivendi(who owned Spyro to begin with).

That said, SONY doesn't really care that much for their IP's(Well, not to the extent of Nintendo and SEGA... or, at least, back then). A majority of their IP's were meant for one generation only. To many, the highlight of the Playstation Systems were the massive list of third party titles. If anything, Third Party Groups define the Playstatons(Which is opposite of Nintendo).