Poll: Console Selling Game. Will one exist?

[Sixties Spidey]

Yes. There always was a console selling game, and there always will be. More so in this generation than in the previous ones.

Look at the PS3 right now. What games practically sold the console? Tekken 6, FFXIII (In spite of both of them being multiplatform, they still count.), MGS4, Resistance 1 and 2, God of War III, Uncharted, inFamous, Heavy Rain, and Motorstorm.

Keep in mind that these are just examples. But the point I'm trying to demonstrate is that YES, there is such a thing called a console selling game, but they vary differently from person to person and according to tastes. One person will buy a 360 to play saaay... Halo, whereas another person will buy it to play RPG's like Fallout 3 or Oblivion.

So yes. There is a console selling game. It just depends on what you as a person demand and ask for in a game.

 

[AngelSword]

There's never been a game that has solely driven me to a console, but it has been a collection of games that, in total, made the console purchase worth my while. The PSP took Maverick Hunter X, Silent Hill Origins, and the Final Fantasy Tactics remake for me to say, "Yeah, I'll pick it up."

Although I inadvertently picked up the Gamecube for Super Smash Bros Melee. I bought it and the game on Black Friday for my brothers when it was knocked out of my hands and landed hard on the ground. I rushed back to my dorm to make sure it still worked, and as I was setting it up to test it, my dad calls me to talk about gifts (so there would be no overlap), and tells me that he'd be getting my two brothers a Gamecube. >_>

 

[Gigano]

I got my PS3 for the promise of God of War III. And that was 2 years before the game was even released! I don't care for MGS4, LBP and Killzone 2, and only discovered the Uncharted and R&C series after purchasing the console, so GoW3 was the sole exclusive titles I cared about at the time.

I've had some sweet times with many other games, but the promise of God of War III is what lured me to the PS3 in the first place. I probably wouldn't have bought a console (at least not at that time) if I'd only cared to ever play one game 2 years away on it, but this single game firmly decided what console I got.

 

[Randvek]

I bought a Gamecube solely because of Metroid Prime.

It was worth it.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

MAG makes me want a PS3 but I don't have the money to go out and do that.

 

[asam92]

Halo and cod keep me on the xbox, though uncharted two looks pretty good.

Pretty good, thats an understatement my friend. Freaking EPIC more like it!

OT: I bought the Xbox 360 for Gears of War and Dead Rising, even though Dead Rising dissapointed me, however Gears is still in my top 5 shooters along with Borderlands, CoD 4, CS and TimeSplitters FP (which I think was totally underated in my opinion.)
I sold the 360 when it RROD on me. I ended getting the PS3 not cuz I wanted any paticular game at the time but just didnt want the Xbox cuz I knew it would RROD me again which is exaclty what it did when I sold it to a friend 3 MORE TIMES!

 

[LazyAza]

I've only ever bought a console when I knew their were at least a few games available I'd play on it buts theirs always a single title that motivates me more than others. With 360 it was Gears of War, with ps3 it was Ratchet and Clank ToD.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Heavy Rain alone sold me on a PS3...When I get myself a job to make me some money.

GoW3 is the same great stuff as GoW2, but its the same stuff.

MGS...AHAHAHAHAHAHA! I could care less about Snake and them.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I bought my XBox solely on the basis of having played ten minutes of Halo (I was young, I didn't know...)

Then I bought my 360 pretty much solely for Halo 3 (I'm coming to the disturbing realisation that I might technically be a fanboy.)

So yeah, although I since bought other games for both consoles, it was only one which made me buy the console first.

So far, nothing has come out which would convince me to buy a PS3 though. And I haven't seen anything which would motivate me enough to get me back into PC gaming (which would require the buying of new equipment etc.)

And any Wii games I play at parties actually motivate me to not buy the console more and more.

 

[USSR]

I don't know..

Kingdom Heart 3 may force my hand on buying a PS3.

 

[Vuljatar]

Metal Gear Solid 4.

Also to a lesser extent, Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2.

 

[richasr]

I got a PS3 for MGS4 and was not disappointed, also the fact that I didn't pay for most of it makes it that much easier.

Since I got it though my game collection has expanded only slightly, I have around 10 games now for it.

 

[bladax]

Metal... Gear.... Solid

 

[UPRC]

Gran Turismo 5 and Tekken 6 (when it was originally planned to be an exclusive) are what drove me to buy a PS3.

 

[DoW Lowen]

Yes. I know at least 4 guys including myself that bought the xbox just for Halo 3 when it came out.

Whether it's good or not is irrelevant to hype and popularity of the game.

 

[darth jacen]

I have and have had all the consoles for this Gen and last Gen so I can safely say there were and are some games that if I didn't have the console and it was an exclusive I'd have run and got the console.

SEE:
Halo
KOTOR
Heavy Rain
Fable
Uncharted 2
etc...

 

[HandfulofWolf]

actually I got a PS3 for Uncharted 2. So I'll have to say yes.

 

[Kyber]

just release new call of duty only to xbox and BOOM! xboxes will be bought

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Final Fantasy 13 would probably be a PS3 seller, but they put it on the 360 aswell.
Also, the metroid prime trilogy for the wii.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

Someone I know recently bought a PS3 for Heavy Rain as well as Final fantasy. Then I told her ff wasn't an exclusive. It didn't bother her.

Opinion states that it's better on the PS3 tho, so i suppose if you have the option a ps3 would be the way you wanted to play it.