A pretty interesting perspective on exclusive games for Xbox 360 and PS3 (for a time period of 2010-2013). During this time period, Xbox 360 has received received just 12 exclusive (core games) whereas PS3 received massive 56 core exclusive games.
Lack of Core Exclusive Games is surely going to be one of the main reason why gamers will move on to PS4 over Xbox One (assuming that above trend continues, especially now bundled Kinect with Xbox One).
Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
"Hammerwatch II's journey to Xbox has been long and perilous. After first launching on Steam in the fall of 2023, the game finally turned up on PlayStation 5 last December. Since then, Xbox gamers who enjoyed the original Hammerwatch and the sublime Heroes of Hammerwatch have been anxiously awaiting their turn at the long-promised sequel. At last, the wait is nearly over because Hammerwatch II will hit Xbox and PlayStation 4 on April 23," says Co-Optimus.
Forget comparing the amount of exclusives between the PS3 and 360. What this picture shows is the amount of Kinect games over non kinect exclusives. Its over 3x as much
Exclusives are my main reason for going with Playstation again, but I didn't think that it was this clear. Sony's first party is just too dominant, not only do they release exclusives regularly, most of them also belong to the best games each year. LBP, Uncharted 2, God Of War 3 or Last of Us for example. Can't wait to see on what PS4 projects the big Sony developers are working on right now.
microsoft with xbox one is concentrating on getting an overall entertainment system in the market and they are paying the price for this mentality... whereas Sony with PS4 is all about games and gamers......
I think the reason for the exclusive is partially the kinect and also the lack of franchises. though from the new gen it seem's they are expanding in the franchise area for the games. they have added 8 new franchises to combat those of which are coming soon on the PS4.
The 360 ended up being left on life support attached to the COD community. The PS3 is like an 80 year old still running marathons pumping out games like TLOU.
I'm pretty sure the 360 will be left to linger in a semi dead state to suck as much money out of FPS players for a few more years yet though!