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Rob Kamphausen said:
ps3's titles, my dear... y'know... you, are filled with sequels, just as much as the next guy's. new worlds and genres and titles aren't as common place as they used to be, because development costs have grown exponentially.



Playstation has a much larger variety of genres with differing characters going for them and not every game that keeps its own individual series of games crosses over with another game. To put it more simply: There's never gonna be a "Solid Snake Party" let alone 10 of them. None of the Playstation characters have required crossover events to make things interesting--They never needed a Super Smash Brothers.

The Sony division has kept re-occurring franchises, but you can't possibly compare them to the Mario phenomenon--And before you bring up: Madden isn't representative as one of the best selling PS games out there; it's name is not automatically associated with Sony like Mario's name is associated with Nintendo.

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there are a large number of new worlds, new "art", you just don't notice those as much as the "mario" ones.



Which is exactly my point: The Nintendo market is saturated with Mario and Mario type characters with Mario crossovers where all of them get together play the same ol' shit over and over. Aside from Conker, which is from a decade ago, all those other games live under a shadow of Mario mediocrity.

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a sequel!



That's one sequel. And it's been about 3 and a half years since the first. This is opposed to one or two sequels every year with the same engine over and over.