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It was the best of years, it was the worst of years..
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Let's look back at PS3 and Xbox 360 exclusives!
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It was the best of years, it was the worst of years..
But they can help attract gamers to your platform. Kinda like what Sony did with the PS3.
xDUMPWEEDx
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The PS3 really took off in 2009. Wow!
Voost Kain
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No exclusives still had a thing when the PS3 was out, that's why the 360 did so well, and why that even when it went off the few exclusives they did release were top of the line.
The PS3 needed those exclusives to make up for Third-party issues, and to make it hard not to buy one. Which it worked in most areas. But by the time the new consoles launched exclusives mean nothing.
I mean otu the gate for the first around 2 years the XO exclusive dwarfed what the PS4's did but that didn't do crap. I mean it seems they are still going in that direction but not sure how far it'll take them.
Yeah, multiplats are king now.
Gears launched in 2006 on the 360, it launched in 2007 on PC. It was exclusive.
Voost Kain
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Thats not how this works. Gears wasn't exclusive on the 360 we arent doing nitpicks.
Actually, that's exactly what you are doing. Nitpicking.
lyrick
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Fuck College aged me and my desire to waste $599 on absolutely fucking nothing.
NormalFish
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this whole thread is nitpicks what are you on about
But the games were exclusive for a period of time, making them valuable to consoles and helping sell the system to people. You are correct, with Gears getting a PC release later on, but still, it WAS a Xbox 360 Exclusive and many consider it such.
It is similar to Rise of the Tomb Raider if you want a good example; a game that is exclusive for a long period of time (one full year on consoles, a few months for PC owners) but later ported to other systems/PC to gather more sales.
This is your thread though, so go about things how you see fit.
Voost Kain
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which wouldn't be exclusive.
I think MS played a big hand in almost killing the console JRPG genre last gen, paying for all those JRPG exclusives and driving the sales down because of the exclusivity in Japan and Europe where the PS3 could have easily doubled those sales numbers damaged the industry beyond repair. I just hope P5, FFXV and KH3 revive the genre.
PaulBizkit
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hey, what about Tales Of Vesperia for the 360? Has it been released somewhere else?
Voost Kain
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No one makes exclusive lists like that. There ar eno nit[picks in this thread, this thread is about exclusives, not console exclusives. Period. Can't be any simpler.
Voost Kain
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The Jrpgs on the PS3 also did bad and were basically PS2 games for the first few years with small exceptions so I have no idea what this is.
Voost Kain
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NO I'm not, the thread syas exlusives among these two consoles, no exclusive lsit I find in any similar thread across the net includes gears 1 for the same reason I'm not, because it's was not exclusive during the time frame of these two consoles.
The only exceptions are enhanced editions fur current gen consoles that were exclusive before than.
thelastword
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Yeah, own it on PS3, but yes, Wet was a pretty decent tps in the vein of John Woo. Always thought that Wet, Blood on the Sand and Lollipop Chainsaw should have made the conversion to Steam.
I've worried that how Microsoft handled shoving themselves into the market caused a lot of damage all over the place in general. The razor model was typical for consoles, but this extreme forced drastically higher development costs seemingly quicker than they could have handled and just threw a lot of developers and publishers into disarray when trying to stay competitive. But I'm not sure if that was inevitable (learning to handle multiple cores for instance) or not.
Probably just as much on Crazy Ken though. He wanted to pull a Yamauchi combined with his own engineer wet dreams in making something that was a pain to develop for that'd also likely have been ostracizing to those who couldn't keep up, and in the end it was just a pain for everyone without a convenient, reasonably high end alternative that was actually popular in Japan like the PS1 itself was relative to the N64.
What? Don't act as if PS3 didn't have plenty of JRPG exclusives. I'm pretty sure it was more than 360 over their lifetimes. Many are not on the list because they were released digitally.
But the real killer of the console JRPG genre was the shift to portable. Gamers--especially Japanese gamers--played a lot more JRPGs on DS, 3DS, PSP and Vita than they did on 360/PS3. Now many of them are on phones and tablets. Why do you think the new Dragon Quest games are made exclusively on mobile/portables now? 360 had nothing to do with this.
GhostTrick
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It's crazy how both PS3 and Xbox 360 had a better catalog of exclusives in their first years than PS4 and One.
Goodacre0081
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Lord of Ostia
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It was probably a perfect storm more than any one cause. Consoles were prohibitively expensive to develop for, handhelds were an easy out popular in Japan and reasonably successfully internationally but then mobile took off and likely took the wind out of the sails for handhelds everywhere throwing things into disarray again, especially as a seemingly significant group of JRPG fans refused to give handhelds the time of day. It seems to be resulting in many of them migrating back to consoles but the damage has definitely been done. Hell, I wonder if we'll even see DQXI on 3DS here.
Exactly, the decent ones were courted by MS, and Square Enix just set itself on fire and laid in it throughout the gen.
Japanese developers definitely struggled with the PS3, Sony's inaction and arrogance coupled with Microsoft's courting of JRPG's early gen collectively did a lot of damage.
You said it, "over their lifetimes" but I'm specifically talking about MS's early gen tactics and the damage it caused to AAA JRPGs to be specific.
this sums it up pretty well
Games were ushered out.
Mass Effect
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Wow, you can really see that steady decline in 360 exclusives. By 2011, I have to admit I was really wishing I had a PS3 instead. Don't get me wrong, Gears 3 and Forza 4 were great, but it wasn't enough. And I had no interest in Kinect. I also got my gaming PC in 2011, so I stopped playing my 360 quite a bit after that.
Well, at least we got Forza Horizon in 2012. One of my favorite racers.
Well, at least we got Forza Horizon in 2012. One of my favorite racers.
Papacheeks
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Yes it was. Jesus do you not know video games? DO you not know the partnership that Epic had with Microsoft in the OG xbox days?
I mean Jesus it's like you fucking know nothing about the games your listing. Microsoft studios logo shows up when the fucking game boots because they published it.
Drilbit777
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Damn those MS exclusives kept depleting over time, sucks that alot of the unique titles that were on xbox just ended up dying off or just moved to playstation.
Would Valkyria Chronicles count then?
Mass Effect
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Neither of these points inherently have to do with exclusivity. But yes, the game was exclusive to the 360 for a year, then came to PC.
Tales of Vesperia was also exclusive to 360 for a year, then came to PS3. It's also not on the list and really shouldn't be.
Mass Effect was exclusive to 360 for a few months, then came to PC. Also not on the list and shouldn't be.
Even if you don't agree with it, at least the OP is being consistent. Otherwise, you'd have to also count games like Shadowrun, Sly 4, and the Puppeteer.
Papacheeks
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So if a game comes out using Microsot's own service for PC and isn't on PS3 it's not an exclusive to 360 still?
Or the exclusive unreal game they made for OG xbox?
He is either naive or has no fucking clue what he's talking about. Microsoft fucking published the Gears games before they bought them hence why exclusive. They also built the shitty games for windows live platform for the PC version. Which also has to do with exclusivity since you could only play it on pc using that service.
Gears is an exclusive, just because it caem out on pc doesn't not make it exclusive still to consoles. PC is not a console. ANd the platform that as used was Microsoft's for PC so there for still exclusive.
blame space
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did everybody throw away their copies of Afrika or what
If the list wasn't by year, there wouldn't be a problem leaving off games like Gears of War. But since you wanted to compare yearly exclusives, in 2006, Gears of War released EXCLUSIVELY on the Xbox 360. You can take it off the list in November 2007, but for that full year, it was exclusive.
Jonneh3003
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360 had a ton of exclusives post 2010, just not ones we'd list on NeoGAF. Most of us wern't Microsoft's audience from that point on.
2013 was ridiculous for Sony. The same year they launch the PS4??
The contrast between MS and Sony from 2011 is kinda telling with the way this gen is going.
That pic of the exclusives with core console vs Kinect and Move says it all, especially with this OP.
MS had more games out for Kinect than Sony had out for Move. Case in point:
When those core console 360 games starting getting smaller, Kinect games grew.
Exactly.
The contrast between MS and Sony from 2011 is kinda telling with the way this gen is going.
That pic of the exclusives with core console vs Kinect and Move says it all, especially with this OP.
MS had more games out for Kinect than Sony had out for Move. Case in point:
When those core console 360 games starting getting smaller, Kinect games grew.
this sums it up pretty well
Exactly.
The Baron Count
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It's really interesting to look at this and see how MS stopped giving as much of a shit once they were secure in the 360's success, while Sony kept pushing with the PS3 to make up the lost market share.
I kept my JP copy
Nerdkiller
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It was put out physically as part of a collection, I believe.
SpiritSlayer
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MGS 4 was the only reason I wanted a PS3. Great game.