DenogginizerOS said:
This is rediculous. This system has been out for 5 months and we have Oblivion, GRAW, Fight Night 3, Burnout Revenge, COD2, PGR3, Kameo, Tomb Raider, etc. and people are bitching about First Party support.
The role of the first party is kind of unique. In the absence of the third parties doing it, it falls to the first party to provide platform-defining games, stuff that really pushes things, or is simply justexclusive. As good and great as many of these games are, none of them are particularly "Xbox 360". I can, and have, played nearly all of these games elsewhere, even if not always as prettily as I could have on 360. As additions to the library, they're all very welcome obviously, but while third parties keep throwing ports at the system, some people are going to be trying to see where the uniquely-360 games are, and inevitably they're going to prod at MS about that if third parties won't step up to the plate. Xbox had Halo and a bunch of others by this point. You might argue that 360's lineup is better (in the sense of more diverse or wider) at the same point now, and I may not wholly disagree, but it is lacking the distinctive and unique flavour that Xbox's lineup enjoyed early on.
I also agree some people will care about this more than others - like you say, despite not being distinctively or exclusively 360, there are some very good games there - but
some people do, especially, I think, if they're a multiplatform gamer. And also perhaps if they were a Xbox fan - MS did serve them quite differently with Xbox than they have to date with 360, to be quite honest, so there may be a bit of disappointment there, and some expectations to be managed.
(And yeah, 360 probably is not unique in this regard, especially so early on, but as time wears on I guess people grow more impatient. And people coming exclusively from Xbox probably aren't used to it.)
