Playing away from home.

Earlier this week Dash and I were chatting about the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, which is due out on Friday 3^rd February, when Dash brought up the point that certain series seem more at home on a certain console rather than another. This maybe because that was where the first game in a series had been an exclusive, before becoming multi-platform, or maybe we just feel the game better suited our preconceptions about each company when compared to each other.

I will admit that I am a huge Metal Gear Solid nerd, having played every sequel on Sony consoles since the first one way back on the original PlayStation back in 1998 and I never questioned which console I would be getting the HD collection on. Metal Gear Solid belongs on Playstation, and that’s where (for me at least) it shall stay. I cannot imagine trying to play Metal Gear Solid on the Xbox 360, but more to the point, neither can Dash.

Dash and I are in different camps when it comes to our video games, with Dash preferring PC gaming whilst I prefer consoles, but even to Dash the words “Metal Gear Solid” bring the words “PlayStation” to his mind, but this got us thinking: is this the only series that this works for?

We consulted with Dish and here are a few others that we feel are more “at home” on one console rather than any other:

Mass Effect.

Obviously this series (eventually) came to the PS3, but Mass Effect 1 is still missing in the PS3 library after Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3’s impending release, yet to us here at InfinityFeed this still feels like and Xbox 360 exclusive.

Banjo-Kazooie

Yes, I know that Microsoft bought Rare (and subsequently no decent games have come out from the studio since) but Banjo-Kazooie is a Nintendo franchise and belongs on a Nintendo console, not the Xbox 360.

Crash Bandicoot

Crash Bandicoot has become a bit of a whore since he left Naughty Dog, appearing on pretty much every console since the PS2, but for us at least his spiritual home will always be with Sony.




Perfect Dark

Following Joanna Dark this series began life on the Nintendo 64 and Gameboy Color respectively, that is until Rare (again!) moved to Microsoft and took the series with them. Perfect Dark has since been ported to the Xbox Live Arcade but Ms. Dark has not been seen in a new game since 2005 and Perfect Dark Zero. Again, Nintendo, not Xbox 360.