Analyst: 360's Focus on Entertainment Means Fewer Exclusives

[josemlopes]

Well... yeah. It's been the case for a long time, innit? They don't really have many exclusives worth noting. The PS3 has always had more, and better, exclusives.

But I still sometimes regret getting the ps3 instead of the 360.
The 360 doesn't really need any exclusives as all the third party titles are built for it. So many of the PS3 ports I've played have just been complete travesties.
And at least MS is doing something interesting with the crappy hardware. Sony has some good hardware but it doesn't do shit with it's firmware. The last big update was just to hype up the Vita.

I dig, I dig. I mean, when the game is out on both systems, I would always say go for the 360 version. Especially if it is multiplayer. But I could also fill up a shelf with just PS3 exclusives alone.

Good ps3 exclusives?
There's 3 ps3 exclusives that I really like: LBP2, Valkyria Chronicles, and Warhawk. With the others, a rental satisfied me. Great games sure, but they don't quite make up for everything else. As good as some exclusives are, they don't usually have as much content or are as good as the multiplatform games. I'd give up all the ps3 exclusives to have decent ports of the multiplatform games.

I don't even buy ps3 games anymore, I just rent them now.

Honestly, I wish the 360 didn't have the rrod problem and the online fee; I would've bought one of those instead.

Any relation to Great Teacher Onizuka?

This might show up twice. The always reliable and well designed Escapist website ate my post.

Well, I like a lot of the PS3 exclusives. Most of them, actually. But you are right. A lot of them lack content, and a lot of them are single player games with low replay value. I hear you on the ports, though. Take Bayonetta, for example. What the hell happened there?

The rrod is a major, major problem. I'm on my 5th 360, but still on my first PS3. The fee doesn't bother me much since it is only 60 bucks a year, but it is still a crude fee since it doesn't really give you much for your buck. PSPlus, on the other hand, constantly gives you free crap for just being a member. I think that is awesome. And you're not practically forced to be a member, unlike Live. I mean, you need to pay to play online. That kind of sucks.

Indeed! That is where the Great Teacher part of my user name comes from. It's my favorite anime of all time.

EDIT: As for 360 exclusives... there really aren't any that stand out for me. I hate Halo, couldn't care less about Gears, Forza is awesome (but why bother when you have Gran Turismo), and... I'm having a hard time thinking of others.

Alan Wake... Just wanted to point that out.

But yeah, the thing is that these exclusives are (or should be) on their last games (yes, Halo will have a new trilogy but it will not be as big as the first trilogy, everyone is already a bit tired).

Alan Wake and Forza are the only ones that show future and I kind of dont care that much as long as good games keep coming, exclusives arent beneficial for the consumer in any way

I did forget about Alan Wake. I loved that game.

Exclusives may not be beneficial to the consumer, but they are definitely beneficial to the console developers. I mean, I bought a PS3 just so I could play MGS4 (at first. Now I love my PS3 for a variety of reasons). So exclusives do work at times. I mean, how many people bought a 360 just to continue playing Halo? A lot of them, probably.

Oh yes, exclusives only matter to the console manufacturers (and fanboys that cry when a game looses exclusivity lol, its just such a retarded situation that happens a lot on the internet)