Exclusives: A dying trend

Rick Astley - 460 days 17 hours ago

For Microsoft, at least. Sony has the most exclusives as always. How many 360 exclusives can YOU list? And yes I do mean exclusive as in Xbox 360 exclusive, not PC and 360 exclusive (that doesn't even make any sense, seeing how the PC IS a platform making those 360 games multi-platform). Well?

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reincarnated - 460 days 15 hours ago

i got a ps3 so this doesnt concern me one bit

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DeathroW22 - 460 days 15 hours ago

Sony are always looking into the future, hence the reason they have never really bought exclusives from third parties, they may fund some studios once these studios do say they will do it exclusive for their console but sony are really focusing on building thier first and second party studio's instead of gunning for 3rd party exclusives.

Microsoft need to start working on some first party CONSOLE development teams if they don't want to keep spending millions just to get an exclusive deal, as for nintendo - meh they've always had rubbish 3rd party support and always sold big on their first party games.

Anyway yeah, i'm glad 3rd party exclusives are dying - there are some amazing 3rd party exclusive games that people cannot afford to play simply because they cannot afford the other console, this way maybe people won't be missing out some amazing experiences like mgs4, etc.

Of course though, there may be 3rd party exclusives in the future due to the fact some may be only possible on a certain console, not pointing any fingers of course as i don't see 3rd party exclusives dying till at least midway through the next generation.

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reincarnated - 460 days 15 hours ago

go troll somewhere else breakfast

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plain rice - 460 days 15 hours ago

Say thanks to Microsoft.

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thor - 460 days 15 hours ago

I think it's bad for console gaming. I can see a future where all consoles are, are PCs with varying specifications and makes, just with copyright protection and proprietry formats, and lack of access to the internal settings of the machine.

We're starting to see this with diferent SKUs for consoles, and now with most games being multiplatform they are being developed with lots of different hardware in mind. Not much different from developing for PC. Games now have installs, patches and expansions on consoles. Games on consoles are starting to neglect one of the consoles' only advantages: offline multiplayer due to the nature of the control scheme and the fact your TV screen is usually larger than your monitor. Games are getting more bugs in and aren't being polished for the particular console they're on.

I can see in the future that more and more of the hassles of PC games will transfer across to the consoles; tedious installs and setup processes, reinstalls, freeing up space on your hard drive by deleting old games, wanting to play them again, driver updates, performance issues, incompatibility issues, tweaking settings to get a better framerate. All caused by a multitude of hardware setups for the same game, so the development and testing time is spread too thin across all the platforms and SKUs.

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DA_SHREDDER - 460 days 15 hours ago

Breakfast, your so lame.

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VF34EJ25 - 460 days 13 hours ago

They should really reconsider to name it "Third Party Exclusives, a dying trend" although it's already a dead horse that's still getting beat.

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Poirot9 - 460 days 13 hours ago

Exclusives, third party ones at least, ARE a dying trend. And I blame it ENTIRELY on the rapidly advancing technology in consoles. It costs SO much money and takes SO much more time to develop games this gen that it becomes much more difficult to actually MAKE money on a game.

Now, that being said, do I regret the way console gaming is headed? Hell no! I'm happy that we have such powerful machines and that the design companies take so bloody long and spend so much money designing awesome games. If that means that the game has to be released on a different console as well as my console of choice, then so be it.

As for exclusives COMPLETELY dying out, I don't think that's likely. I expect they may soon be relegated to first-party titles only status, but that could just further improve the quality of exclusives that we get! 1st party devs will know that it's up to them to differentiate the consoles and there products will get even better.

My 2 cents.

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Stickguy259 - 460 days 13 hours ago

All the Xbox fans are too busy playing their games to come N4G and set you guys straight. All there is is Breakfast.

Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (say what you want, it has a meta score of 83)

Fable 2

Left 4 Dead

Gears of War 2

Halo Wars

Banjo Kazooie: N&B

GTA DLC

Fallout 3 DLC

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

I guess now all I'm gonna do is wait for you PS3 fans to tell me how Viva Pinata doesn't count, Banjo Kazooie's gonna suck, that nobody plays GTA 4 anymore, that exclusive DLC doesn't matter, and to top it all off, and that hardly any of them are exclusives because they come out on PC as well.

Guess I'll go play Trouble in Paradise while I wait.

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Karum - 460 days 6 hours ago

DLC does just seem like you're padding the list out though but I kinda understand what you're getting at.

The article is kinda spot on though but he should have said 3rd party exclusives in the title even if it's obvious that is what he meant when talking about it. Looks to me like Sony saw it going this way years ago and have taken action where MS just threw money at people to make once exclusive games multi-plat and go ahead and get a couple exclusives of their own.

What I do hope is that MS pull their fingers out of their ass and come up with something better than a price cut to keep Sony and their 1st/2nd party devs creating innovating and intriguing IP's cuz all a price cut will force Sony into is doing the same (at some point) and that doesn't really benefit me at all :p

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idontcare - 460 days 5 hours ago

maybe for Microsoft.

it's good to know that i can play most of the 360 games on my pc.

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Zulwarn - 460 days 13 hours ago

for sony

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juuken - 460 days 13 hours ago

That's why Sony is working on 1st party.
That's what matters this time around.

And the disagree button is slammed.

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BURNDOWNTHEHOUSE - 460 days 11 hours ago

Lost Planet(PS3), Saints Row(2 on PS3), Dead Rising(Wii), Bioshock(PS3), Condemned(2 on PS3) and I think there are more.

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pulsating-bile - 460 days 8 hours ago

Okay first thing is first. I'm Playstation for life. yep ps3 fanboy (lots of reasons why too). Second about all this whats-the-better-system business.
my answer is stated already but not because i'm a fanboy but because i'm a logical person. Here are my points in a list format(easier for the box people to see the light). here it goes:
1.Sony is more reliable. MS spent a BIL on problems that came up. Sony spent 3 BIL so problems wouldn't come up. (3 billion dollar loss for selling the ps3 at its launch price) ps3 failure rate= 0.02% what was 360's again....
2.First party exclusives will remain for both parties. They wont be as big of a deciding factor these days but a factor none-the-less. FACT:sony does have a bigger first party organization than MS. nuff said ( 360 ppl that means less exclusives for you.)
3.in a couple of months HOME will be here. Still free and at the same time eliminating anything LIVE had over HOME and its still free. mii rip-offs or entire 3D digital world hmmmm.
4.PS3 is largley untapped in power yet. (first party DEVS recently said at a DEV kit conference with other devs that any given title out right now uses at most 45%-55% of the ps3' ability. (xbox already lags and chokes on games.
5. 360 will be done within 3-4 years. ps3 will be a decade long system before its potential is realized. That means staying power so for you MS junkies thats 2 strikes your machine breaks and you have to buy more systems more often OUCH!
6. More functionality of course. less pheripherals (cheaper for us) Firmware updates. no AA battery budget. Motion control. Wi-Fi. a more silent machine compared to the xbox's noise level.
PS3: ghostly whisper
360: start your engines
7. bigger games. yes 360 games can have multiple discs meaning MS pays the publisher for the extras guess who they pass those savings on to.....
8. PSN-free DLC-a little money LIVE-NOT FREE DLC-a little more money okay some #'s 360 online service costs on top of ISP which costs coupled with DLC which costs who getting the better deal especially after Home is out
(a lil prediction here. Live will suffer like ahhhhhh think old yeller after rabies.)
9. Yeah big installs coming up but yep thats right new HDD for ps3 coming too. 160G, 240G, and even a 500G in the 2.5 inch sata fashion.
10. what are the ps3 complaints. slow start, yea ok but really long run. ppl committing violent crimes to obtain one. yea its bad might be kinda sick of me to look at it this way but if sum1 wants something bad enough because its soooo grand how far will they go, every 1 is different. and uhhhhhh oh.... that's it then.
In closing, there's 10 #'s up there but in all actuality its more like a hundred. The war isn't over yet but it is starting to look like the ps3 is the allies of WW2 and the 360 are the well you know,... the other guys.

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