Eric Frederiksen:
On a fanciful whim, TechnoBuffalo’s Senior Gaming Editor Joey Davidson asked me, “Would you like to stare at a spreadsheet for 8 hours?”
Well of course I said yes. But no, I wasn’t playing Disgaea. Instead, I was data-mining Wikipedia’s various lists of games by platform to see which platforms had the most exclusive games.
As a caveat, I’ll note that these lists were compiled by humans, and then read by me, also a human, so there may be minor numerical errors, but the overall picture is accurate. There’s also probably more information a better miner of data could’ve pulled out of these spreadsheets, but here are our graphs and the conclusions we’ve reached. Also, due to the nature of PC gaming, there wasn’t one single place to get a complete list of games, so the closest we could find was the list of games released to Steam in 2012. This doesn’t account for a few EA games (none of which were PC-exclusive) or Blizzard’s games, Diablo III and Mists of Pandaria (along with, very likely, a few other big ones I’ve forgotten).
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The PC is clearly the winner in this and the Vita (The one that has no games) came in second with almost 40 exclusive titles for the year.
Not bad at all.
(with the exception of Cross-play games, which are atm very few)
Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward is on Vita and 3DS. You are right about the rest of the games though, at least to my knowledge.
No, there are quite a few that are on other platforms. Need for speed, Sonic & Sega All-Stars and I don't know if cross platform games count.
Ben 10 Galactic Racing
Blazblue continuum shift
F1 2011
WRC3
All the Lego games
Madden & Fifa
Metal Gear Solid HD
Mortal Kombat
Plants VS Zombies
Rayman
Retro City Rampage
Sine Mora
Spy hunter
Street Fighter X Tekken
UMVC3
All of those, plus more are on other platforms.
PC got more exclusives than ps3 a whole lot more, but ps3 does have a nice and varied collection of exclusives.
"I was data-mining Wikipedia’s various lists of games by platform"
Wikipedia's games listings are incomplete. For example, the PlayStation 3 Wikipedia games list shows only 7 total games released in July, August, September, October, November, and now December.
April, May, and June combined shows another 7 total games released.
There are weeks have ~7 new releases, let alone 6 or 9 months.
Its pretty much a cert PS3 and 360 will be replaced by new consoles next year. Neither have had as many retail exclusives or first party published games this year as any of the peak years prior to this.
This happens the year before every new console generation, it becomes apparent that the manufacturers are preparing new games for their new consoles.
The lack of 360 titles makes it the most obvious, Microsoft are almost certainly concentrating on their next machine now....
- Halo 4
- Forza Horizon
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare
- Fable The Journey
- Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Deadlight
but there's some games that aren't really an exclusive such as:
- The Witcher 2
- Minecraft 360 Edition
- Spelunky
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So my question still stands, how exactly did PS3 do better than Xbox this time I'm dying to know please someone tell me.
And if nobody response then this site is further labeled and proving this is a Super Sony site.
@Above your right Deadlight and AWAN isn't an exclusive. Its a CONSOLE exclusive the only type of exclusive that really matters.
Zuperman
On all gens.
xbox360 had a good year with release of halo 4 too along with great titles on xblive
i think this year PC won when it came to exclusives.
If so, I'd say xbox.
Artical for the fanboys to squabble over..................pathetic , you no who had the most exclusives to play.? Gamers who have both a ps3 and a 360.
3rd party games today are almost all multiplatform. But in the PS1/2 days a lot of games by 3rd party devs were exclusive.
they have their metascores, though obviously metacritic isnt always great to go by. some scores might be off, because alot of times late reviews come in and change the average, but its pretty updated
https://docs.google.com/spr...
and why is Sine Mora not there?.
Your list is full of faults, this is what is spotted at a glance.
@InTheLab, hmm so i guess Zen Pinball, which was also released for IOS should be removed.
Nice.
The games you listed for Xbox are true multiplatform titles that can be played on many platforms, whereas the Sony titles you listed are of the Playstation brand and can be played nowhere else. You don't need a 360 or Windows to play the Witcher 2 because it's also on Mac...same as Mincraft, except it's also on IOS/Android.
So while they're not Playstation 3 exclusives, they are in fact, Playstation exclusives. So just like DCU online, you can't really list the Witcher 2 as Xbox exclusive or exclusive to any brand.
Using the term "Playstation exclusive" is such a cop out. Playstation Allstars is playable on more than one platform. It's multiplatform.
Besides, he is clearly comparing the 360 to the PS3. He's not comparing the "Xbox/Windows exclusives" to the "Playstation exclusives."
Okami HD is only available on PS3 btw. The 2012 HD release isn't available for 360, PC or any handhelds. Why shouldn't it count?
Okami is available on both the PS2 and the Wii. A higher resolution doesn't make it a different game.
This isn't about "punishing" anyone. It just seems unfair to count some "console exclusives" and discount others. Either you count them all, or you don't count them at all.
Those games(except Okami and Closure) might be exclusive to the playstation brand, but they're sure as hell not exclusive to the PS3.
I see it as...
You need a Playstation to play these games. What difference does it make which Playstation Platform you choose when it still MUST be a Playstation device running a game from a Sony owned developer.
You see it as..
It's on multiple platforms so they're the same..when that's clearly not the case.
You don't need a PS3 to be able to play those games.You don't even need a playstation to play Okami(also on the Wii) or Closure(also on the PC).
They're not PS3 exclusives. It's that simple.
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The games I played on my 360 and are available only on 360 are not exclusives?! That makes zero sense.
The author sperated Xbox 360, XBLA and Kinect as individual platforms. I played all of those on my console.
Why not compare PS3 (including PSN and PS Move) and Xbox 360 (including XBLA and Kinect) etc etc?
Of course the Xbox 360 won this year. This isn't up for debate. Of course N4G will spin this in a certain way, but reality is a different thing.
Of course 360 has more games when more developers are making games for it. Not in-house Microsoft developers though.
Even the Atari's ET had fans...........few.......but they live.
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High five, bro!
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I'd say Xbox had the most this year.
Look it up guys, overall the Xbox 360 had the most games this year. That is a fact.
What made me smile is the FACT that you didn't even read the article. Also most of the Xbox360 exclusives this year were kinect shovelware.
On the other hand, the ps3, all of it's Indy games were great.
Did look it up and I have to say, it looks pretty awesome. Will definitely put this game on my list.
That said, it seems like they're bouncing back big-time come next year(assuming we're not all dead).
Now next year is a different story. 2 new big budget IPs in a single, as well as the staples like GoW and Sly??? Wow. They've already won next year, but this year was abysmal.
I didn't hit disagree, btw.
Anyways both consoles had some pretty great exclusives this year and i cant wait for more.
Please go an explore the world outside of your mother's basement.
PC FTW
Of course, I always have a hard time remember when which games came out, so who knows. I have been very pleased with my PS3 of late. And my PC, of course.
Since these games appear on both PS3 and PSVita, they're technically not exclusive to one system, yet it wouldn't feel fair to not count them, since Sony make both systems, whilst Microsoft only have one system.
I like this article cause it brings light to those left in the darkness by having no clue about the Glory that is PC Gaming!
I ONLY play PC Exclusives!
so the next time someone says the PC blah blah blah this or that just pull up this Story cause the PC has GREAT games of ALL genres!
Nintendo made the most money on software and hardware.
I would have to say that Microsoft won the day though, at least everywhere other than Japan. Sony is making great strides in acquiring more developers, so they may win next gen.
Anyways what i like to see is whos had the monst exclusives since the launch of xbox 360 and PS3 Combined.