[quote name='Pojo']The funny thing is, Mario, Mario Kart, Metroid, and Zelda, etc. evolve more over every iteration than Sony's stable of games. God of War, Ratchet, Uncharted, etc, although great, are just bigger and better with every new installment. Even the portable games follow the same formula.
Granted, Zelda stays pretty similar, but when you take into account how different the console games are from the portable games, you get pretty unique experiences.
And really, the only reason I'm getting a 3DS is Nintendo. Otherwise I'd have a Vita preordered, but if it's like the PSP, it'll get stale really quickly. Maybe the touch screen will bring about some fresh ideas, who knows. The tech is there, but they're still pimping the same old stuff. I just beat two Killzone and two Resistance and two Uncharted games, do I really want uglier little versions?
Also, I take personal offense to you saying that Metroid has not been AAA since Super Metroid (my favorite game ever). Retro studios is amazing and you should be ashamed.
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Meh well first off as far as Metroid I have always thought it and Zelda are horribly overrated outside the old 2D ones. Super Metroid, the GBA metroids and the 2D Zeldas till the DS were all gold, but every other entry in to either series is a low to mid 8 at best. I am sorry but take the Metroid/Zelda names off these games and they are rather weak compared to other games in their genres. Zelda is particularly guilty, I mean when you hold up the swordplay in Zelda to something like Devil May Cry or Ninja Gaiden and it becomes dead obvious that Zelda is just horribly outdated.
As for Sony I have never claimed that they have updated nor innovated with their franchises. Though to be fair they have not needed to. Where as Nintendo has been pumping out the same Zelda game since OoT Sony has let franchises come and go vs pumping one out every 2 or 3 years. As something gets stale they have innovated or let it die off. Ratchet and Clank and GoW are really the only two Sony series I can think of that have lasted such a long period of time and had a new game every year or two. Those two series though I would argue have deserved to last this long and they do not really need innovation or retooling. Both of those series much like Mario managed to very early on hit a damn near perfect formula for their genre which has meant they only needed minor tweaking here or there to keep the games amazing.
Anyways as I said I love both companies. Nintendo and Sony are amazing and me saying Sony was underrated and Nintendo over was never meant to be Sony rules Nintendo drools. It was just pointing out that many people worship at the altar of Nintendo and think they can do no wrong while criticizing everything Sony does and often being woefully ignorant of just how many big series Sony has under their belt.
Also real fast, just as important are all those secondary series. When we talk about this stuff we talk about Mario, Zelda, God of War and Jake and Daxter. No one ever stops and thinks about games like Mario and Luigior Sly Cooper. Which is frankly really sad because these are some of their best and most underrated games(I love the shit out of both M&L and Sly Cooper). Part of the reason I say that Sony is underated is because people only think about God of War and Uncharted and never think of stuff like Sly or one offs like Legend of Dragoon.
