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Originally posted by Clodfobble
Don't get me wrong, they make great games... playing-loyalties and working-loyalties are different. But Microsoft is at least willing to play ball with American game makers. Sony automatically has disdain for an American game, even their American offices.
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Whoa there. Sony's American HQ has ABSOLUTE CONTEMPT for the vast majority of Japanese games, leading to hordes of interesting titles getting the corporate overload thumbs-down when someone wants to release them stateside for their system.
The PSX's success is at least in part due to the variety of niche games and oddballs released for it, but it's the tip of the iceberg compared to what's available for it in Japan.
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Plus, I've got another reason to hate Sony--Microsoft put almost state-of-the-art audio functionality in their state-of-the-art graphics machine. Sony royally fucked over sound designers everywhere with the PS2. A PS2 is literally nothing but two Playstations inside a single case, from an audio standpoint. More overall space for sounds, but a PS2 can basically only process the same number/quality of sounds as an original Playstation can. 8 fucking megs of audio RAM, and not even the ability to steal RAM from other areas of the game.
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This may bother audiophiles, but since I'm definitely not one (I generally can't tell much difference between the same song on cassette and CD), it's not a problem for me.