" the marketing surrounding the playstation 2 and its "emotion engine" (which in retrospect was full of bullshit and edited CGI) was so insane that it convinced people to wait for the PS2 and made them disinterested in anything that would've been released before it."
That's what happened in my area. I fell for it, too, esp as MGS2 was the game I was following and their people could actually deliver on that marketing a bit in gameplay demos. Little did I know that it was going to be quite the exception. :)
"It's only through the sheer strength of their first party titles"
What I just said to ZenoArrow. They didn't have strong, original, genre-defining content like Sony and Nintendo did. Microsoft was careful to avoid that mistake.
That's what happened in my area. I fell for it, too, esp as MGS2 was the game I was following and their people could actually deliver on that marketing a bit in gameplay demos. Little did I know that it was going to be quite the exception. :)
"It's only through the sheer strength of their first party titles"
What I just said to ZenoArrow. They didn't have strong, original, genre-defining content like Sony and Nintendo did. Microsoft was careful to avoid that mistake.