This matters why? The 360 had plenty of good games in the first year it came out, Sony should have easily been able to come out with some killer titles for the system by now. I mean that Warhawk game looked cool and I downloaded it but since I could never connect to a game I just said screw it.
The PS3 has been out long enough to the point where it should have some awesome games for it, and looking at the line up I don't see much in the future either.
The PS3 has just as many good games as the X360 had in its first year, in my opinion. If you think otherwise it's because X360 games suits your taste better.
Exactly... this is just like the sales comparisson from those ignoring the fact that the 360 has been out a full year ahead of the PS3.
Joey's complaint sounds oh so familer to me, oh yeah, because he just made the same complain in the
Yet *another* Model of 360 thread. Rather than say the same things over, here was my response:
There aren't a ton of exclusive PS3 games out either
Just as many if not more than were released on the 360 in it's first year. Besides all the exclusive games, the PS3 is hardly short on titles that have
already been released.
I personally feel that many of the ones that are out are rather meh. I was disappointed with the F1 game as well as Motorstorm.
Well one can't argue with how someone "feels". Some people don't like ice cream, doesn't make them wrong... although certainly in the minority... and based on sales and discussions, many feel quite differently then yourself, and like you they also aren't wrong.
Your "taste" in games seem to be more console related than actually game related. In fact, I think you were saying in another thread, and understandably so, you were preferring 360 games because your friends mostly play online using the 360. Nothing wrong with that, but that isn't a poor reflection on the quality of PS3 games, it's just indicative of your particular situation.
I still feel in the US the Xbox 360 has the best selection of games out currently,
Again, that's a subjective opinion, but even objectively, the 360 does have the largest game library
(if you ignore all PS2 games that play on the PS3 of course) although again, this is because it's been out a year longer, and to be quite frank, let us not forget that Microsoft killed the Xbox, and so many of the first year games on the 360 were nothing more than ported Xbox games that were still in development... So if you are going to count those, then you might as well count some of the 2006 PS2 titles. I'm just saying...
I think you'll find if you go back and look at threads and discussions in the 360 forum back in 2006 the constant complaint was how bad most of the games were, or how they showed little change from equivalent Xbox games... and how many were waiting for
Halo 3.
I foresee the PS3 making a run for it in the near future...at least I hope so.
No need to hope. Sony have a larger list of exclusive game releases among their
huge list of PS3 games scheduled for release this year and in 2008, including some very high profile games, like:
- Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
- Haze
- SingStar
- SOCOM: Confrontation
- Time Crisis 4
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
- Coded Arms: Assault
- DC Universe
- Final Fantasy XIII (followed by Final Fantasy Versus XIII)
- God of War III
- Gran Turismo 5
- Infamous
- Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
- Killzone 2
- LittleBigPlanet
- Metal Gear Online
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- MotorStorm 2
- Resistance 2
- Tekken 6
- Unreal Tournament 3 (timed exclusive)
- Valkyrie of the Battlefield: Gallian Chronicles
Among others, as well as several big projects planned for 2009, including Rockstar's mammoth
L.A. Noire, and the yet to be announced new exclusive franchise... which may still be the
rumored GTA style Batman game.
And of course the
current and future PSN games are not in short order either, some of which are arguably better received than some full 360 games, and a good deal less expensive.
What has a lot of people scratching their heads is where are all the 360 game announcements from Microsoft? As they have been canceling appearances at one game show after another:
When I saw this I had to do a double take...
Well, Tokyo Game Show 2007 is turning out to be completely pathetic. Can someone give me a hug? :/
Why the double take? Well besides all the interesting pre-show news, and keynote presentation... Duck posted this on 9/20 at 12:14pm +0900 (JST) - that's just two hours after the show opened. TGS runs through Sunday, so it seems rather premature to be making that kind of "assessment" after just two hours, and seems to be without clearly knowing what has already been discussed, which has been more than previous game conferences over the same period of time.
Perhaps Duck's disappointment is that once again Microsoft has little in the way of announcements at TGS this year:
Microsoft To Japan: 'We Got Nothing'
Posted on September 12, 2007 by Chris Kohler
At E3 2005, Microsoft filled the front rows of their press conference with shills, audience plants who hooted and hollered and applauded the arrival of the Xbox 360. I thought they'd learned their lesson, but they did it again at this year's Tokyo Game Show press conference.
This time, at least, they put them in the back. They were Xbox Live community members from Japan, ostensibly. And on cue, they hooted, hollered, and applauded in a very, very un-Japanese manner. Almost as if they were asked to. This is a country who goes to professional wrestling matches and sits there in stony-faced silence.
Anyway, Microsoft's latest plan to win Japan seems to be exactly the same strategy that has done wonders for them before: RPGs. With Final Fantasy XIII a very long way away for PlayStation 3, Microsoft is trying to build the ultimate platform for turn-based role-playing games. Last Remnant! Lost Odyssey! Infinite Undiscovery! The three of them start to all run together after a while, honestly.
And that's about it. Taking a cue from Microsoft's E3 conference, they didn't actually announce many new products. Certainly Ninja Gaiden II will do well worldwide. And Rez? Rez. That's never a bad thing. But other than that, Japanese developers -- besides the few that Microsoft has specifically spent the last year or so courting -- have run from the Xbox 360. And the ones who are there are just producing the same kinds of games that haven't worked in the past.
If Microsoft really wants to tap into Japan's desires, they need to create unique, original software that reaches a broader audience. I was hoping to see some spark of ingenuity at this briefing, and the closest they came to that was announcing new controllers that happen to be the same color as the Nintendo DS.
As long as Microsoft keeps sticking to the exact same strategy, Xbox 360 will continue to sell a statistically insignificant amount of consoles in Japan.
This seems to be a strange trend for Microsoft lately:
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That's because the last time MS unveiled an '08 title was at X06 nearly a year ago. Sony has unveiled many games this year for both '07 and '08 (Killzone 2, GT5, LBP, and Infamous to name a few), and there's still TGS, Leipzig, and another SGD event to go. And there's other games we know are in development they haven't officially unveiled yet (I'm talking about showing off what it all looks like now with videos and photos) MotorStorm 2, Socom 4, The Getaway, Eight Days, etc.
Likewise, MS has Leipzig, TGS, and their event in Europe to show off whatever Rare has been working on. If they pull an E3 and we don't see many new things for 360 this year, then yes, the PS3 has more games coming out in '08.
Just for clarification...
Microsoft Cancels X07 Event
Posted on 7/19/2007 9:11:00 AM by Staff of Tradeshow Week
Microsoft officials confirmed that X07, a European event usually held in late September, was canceled. The event was established in 2001 and often was used to make big announcements for the upcoming year on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, including new game titles. A company spokesman has said Microsoft will try to find another venue to talk about the 2008 lineup, possibly the Leipzig Games Convention or the Tokyo Games Show.
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Well... MS cancelled their Leipzig conference. No game announcements today, nothing. 👎
When the heck are they going to show off some of their '08 titles? TGS? Surprise buttsex announcement?
O Microsoft, Microsoft! Wherefore art thou Microsoft?
I wonder if this is all part of Microsoft's plans for trimming their Xbox divisional expenses to minimize their ever growing financial losses?
Oh well, at least they will be enjoying a massive amount of publicity leading up to the launch of Halo 3 next week! 👍
Still, it can't be a great sign for Microsoft to start the gaming conference season off with a less than stellar E3 presentation and then cancel one show after another.
