Exclusives: A dying trend

GameXtract writes "Well what a surprise. Capcom has declared that all major titles that they're making are to be multiplatform games for the next fiscal year. Is that really that big a surprise? I mean, really. With titles like Devil May Cry 4, Resident Evil 5, and Street Fighter IV going multi, one could only ponder if console exclusivity was going to be in the developer's future…"

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[Rick Astley]

For Microsoft, at least. Sony has the most exclusives as always. How many 360 exclusives can YOU list? And yes I do mean exclusive as in Xbox 360 exclusive, not PC and 360 exclusive (that doesn't even make any sense, seeing how the PC IS a platform making those 360 games multi-platform). Well?

[cemelc]

Exclusives for the 360 are a dying breed this days

[Breakfast]

How many AAA exclusives does Sony have right now?

One.

Keep your plethora of AA exclusives.

:)

[Aclay]

@ Breakfast

How many AAA exclusive games have the 360 gotten this year? NONE.

None of the PS3's good exclusives are garbage, MGS4 is one of the highest rated exclusive games. I consider Uncharted Drakes Fortune a AAA PS3 exclusive as well, and the PS3 has more than just one AAA exclusive.

[mikeslemonade]

And the quality games that do ground breaking gameplay elements are also a dying trend. Keep up with the money gouging tactics Square Enix and Capcom.

[Bubble Buddy]

Well to be fair, some PS3 titles are 1-3 points from averaging 90+ (Hmm I wonder why?)

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots: 93
Ratchet And Clank Future: Tools Of Destruction: 89
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune: 88
Ninja Gaiden Sigma: 88
Resistance: Fall Of Man: 87

Warhawk is definitely a AAA game with all the map packs and extra content and you will agree if you've played the game with all the updates. And coming up shortly:

Resistance 2
InFamous
Little Big Planet
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
Killzone 2
etc etc.

360 didn't have one AAA game so far and only has 5 exclusive titles rated 90+ not counting XBL games and will lose Bioshock making it 4.
Honestly, only games I'm looking forward to is Gears and Fable 2. Banjo is most likely a rental or borrowing from a friend and where's Alan Wake and Splinter Cell? And Rick is right about the exclusive to consoles and PC's...

[reincarnated]

i got a ps3 so this doesnt concern me one bit

[Jamie Foxx]

...greatest rapper ever in my opinion i know the biggie fans will disagree

@breakfast uncharted is as AAA as they come

[Breakfast]

FF13
DMC4
GTA4
Assassin Creed
The list goes on and on. Pretty big names there.

lol

:)

[mfwahwah]

Breakfast: Weren't we talking about exclusives? wth are you trying to get at? I'm legitimately confused.

[PotNoodle]

Sony are always looking into the future, hence the reason they have never really bought exclusives from third parties, they may fund some studios once these studios do say they will do it exclusive for their console but sony are really focusing on building thier first and second party studio's instead of gunning for 3rd party exclusives.

Microsoft need to start working on some first party CONSOLE development teams if they don't want to keep spending millions just to get an exclusive deal, as for nintendo - meh they've always had rubbish 3rd party support and always sold big on their first party games.

Anyway yeah, i'm glad 3rd party exclusives are dying - there are some amazing 3rd party exclusive games that people cannot afford to play simply because they cannot afford the other console, this way maybe people won't be missing out some amazing experiences like mgs4, etc.

Of course though, there may be 3rd party exclusives in the future due to the fact some may be only possible on a certain console, not pointing any fingers of course as i don't see 3rd party exclusives dying till at least midway through the next generation.

[reincarnated]

go troll somewhere else breakfast

[Breakfast]

I think not. :)

lol...what i said was true, too.

:D

[Skip_Bayless]

Breakfast, stop being a stubborn child. Just know the fact the 360 has the weakest 1st party therefore they only have a handful of real exclusives. You got nothing outside of Halo, Gears, Rare developer, Peter Moleneux and that's about it. Everything else is fair game to be multiplatform. It looks like you made the mistake of buying the wrong system.

[cemelc]

What you just named like 6 multiplat games

And if we go that way then lets start:

Uncharted.
R&C.
MGS4.
Resistance 1.
Folklore(before you said this game is crap or something IGN gave it 9 so in my book AAA).
Heavenly Sword.

An in December the numbers grow a lot compared to the Xbox 360.

[Kyur4ThePain]

Jesus, break-fast (apt name, BTW), you seem really butt hurt by this.

Now post twice more so we can have a decent convo.

Go on...just one more.

[Breakfast]

Im only giving you, want you want.

:)

[plain rice]

Say thanks to Microsoft.

[thor]

I think it's bad for console gaming. I can see a future where all consoles are, are PCs with varying specifications and makes, just with copyright protection and proprietry formats, and lack of access to the internal settings of the machine.

We're starting to see this with diferent SKUs for consoles, and now with most games being multiplatform they are being developed with lots of different hardware in mind. Not much different from developing for PC. Games now have installs, patches and expansions on consoles. Games on consoles are starting to neglect one of the consoles' only advantages: offline multiplayer due to the nature of the control scheme and the fact your TV screen is usually larger than your monitor. Games are getting more bugs in and aren't being polished for the particular console they're on.

I can see in the future that more and more of the hassles of PC games will transfer across to the consoles; tedious installs and setup processes, reinstalls, freeing up space on your hard drive by deleting old games, wanting to play them again, driver updates, performance issues, incompatibility issues, tweaking settings to get a better framerate. All caused by a multitude of hardware setups for the same game, so the development and testing time is spread too thin across all the platforms and SKUs.

[BSigel81]

I agree but, I also see consoles turning into a pc genre as a good thing. I mean really, didn't we all want to have a real good pc to play Crysis(ok game,great graphics) when it released? I know I did; I had my ps3 since jan 07. But, I am glad it's more pc oriented(kb & mouse, internet browser, etc..) that means I can do more with it than just game when I don't have enough cash to get a pc. I have a labtop, but I know I can't play some of the games released for pc. So, I can sympathize with companies, when they make their console similar to stay competitive. But, also I see your point with quality lacking in games. Then again this wouldn't be a WoW deal where we can just upgrade our pc and play. Companies will want to create new consoles to bring interest back in their favor to make more money(ala EA's routine ***cough***madden***cough***)

[DA_SHREDDER]

Breakfast, your so lame.

[THE TERMINATOR]

What exclusive games has the 360 got for 2009?
For Sony its;

Uncharted 2
Killzone 2
Heavy rain
FFv13
White knight Chronicles
Team Ico game
M.A.G
God of war 3
Ratchet and Clank 2

Just to name but a few. Microsoft are already thinking about there next console. I dont see anything appealing on the 360 for 2009 & beyond. No wonder they were so desperate for FF13.

[VF34EJ25]

Alan Wake, Halo Wars, and some other unannounced titles.

Not nearly as much as Sony though. For now at least.

[RememberThe357]

They'll buy some more, don't you worry.

[mfwahwah]

I don't think you should use unconfirmed-for-09 games on that list. Some of those could be '10 releases

GoW3, Versus 13, Team ICO game. We also have no info on Uncharted 2, so there's no telling when that will be released.

I agree with your general point, just not how you're backing it up.

[VF34EJ25]

They should really reconsider to name it "Third Party Exclusives, a dying trend" although it's already a dead horse that's still getting beat.

[Poirot9]

Exclusives, third party ones at least, ARE a dying trend. And I blame it ENTIRELY on the rapidly advancing technology in consoles. It costs SO much money and takes SO much more time to develop games this gen that it becomes much more difficult to actually MAKE money on a game.

Now, that being said, do I regret the way console gaming is headed? Hell no! I'm happy that we have such powerful machines and that the design companies take so bloody long and spend so much money designing awesome games. If that means that the game has to be released on a different console as well as my console of choice, then so be it.

As for exclusives COMPLETELY dying out, I don't think that's likely. I expect they may soon be relegated to first-party titles only status, but that could just further improve the quality of exclusives that we get! 1st party devs will know that it's up to them to differentiate the consoles and there products will get even better.

My 2 cents.

[Poirot9]

I misspelled "their" in the last paragraph... I'm gonna get ripped apart by the grammar freaks on this site.

[Zulwarn]

for sony

[juuken]

Fact: Sony has more 1st party studios than Microsoft and Nintendo combined.

You fail, try again.

Disagreeing with facts?

I love how bots disagree with facts.

[power of Black]

Because Microsoft doesn't have games of their own so they...

Buy, buy, buy, BUY!!!

Wait, did I mention buy? xD xD

[Stickguy259]

All the Xbox fans are too busy playing their games to come N4G and set you guys straight. All there is is Breakfast.

Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (say what you want, it has a meta score of 83)

Fable 2

Left 4 Dead

Gears of War 2

Halo Wars

Banjo Kazooie: N&B

GTA DLC

Fallout 3 DLC

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

I guess now all I'm gonna do is wait for you PS3 fans to tell me how Viva Pinata doesn't count, Banjo Kazooie's gonna suck, that nobody plays GTA 4 anymore, that exclusive DLC doesn't matter, and to top it all off, and that hardly any of them are exclusives because they come out on PC as well.

Guess I'll go play Trouble in Paradise while I wait.

[RememberThe357]

They're on all the other sites. And you did not just list Viva Pinata and Banjo & Kazooie. Please tell me your not that desperate to list exclusives. Gears and Fable are enough for me.

[Stickguy259]

Yes I did. I don't care what you say, I'm at least positive that Viva Pinata is a AAA game, seeing as I own it. And I don't have any reason to believe that Banjo Kazooie won't be fun. I don't care, maybe your taste in games is different from mine. But if someone can list Ratchet and Clank for PS3, then I can list Banjo Kazooie for the 360.

Anybody with a brain can tell you that just because a game has "cute" characters, that doesn't mean it's not a worthwhile game.

I would also like to be directed to where all of the 360 fans are, so that I can speak with them.

[strotee]

Scratch Left 4 Dead off your exclusivity list. (coming to PC)

[Stickguy259]

You didn't read my entire first post, and if you did, then you already know that I was expecting someone like you to show up.

This about console exclusives, and that doesn't include computers.

[thor]

Look, I'm probably not going to buy left 4 dead, doesn't look that great to me, but if I did, I'd buy it for my laptop. I don't own a 360. That basically means it's not exclusive. And I'm sure red alert 3 is coming to PC, and will be better on PC I mean it's an RTS you've got to have keyboard and mouse. Not to mention PC's superior graphics.

DLC does matter, but it depends on what it is. GTA4 DLC looks like it could be something quite special, but we really don't know at this stage. But the very fact you are mentioning it looks like you want to pad out your list. I won't list all the 1st and 2nd party PS3 exclusives coming out in the next year (and beyond) but it's a load more than even your padded list.

If we count 83 as a great metacritic score (I actually agree here, it is), then there are many great PS3 games that xbox fanboys ignore and still carry on that PS3 only has 1 good game (even the most diehard of fanboys has to admit there's at least 1 AAA title exclusive to PS3).

[Stickguy259]

Like I'm a fanboy for the Xbox 360, but I'm truly not. It's true that I only own an Xbox and Wii, but my brother owns a PS3, and I play it a lot.

And as I said, this article doesn't mention anything about PC exclusives, so I wasn't counting the PC. If you don't own an Xbox, it seems like you would of course buy it for the PC, that's just common sense.

Everything I listed were things for the Xbox 360 that I was looking forward to. I added the DLC almost as a second thought because I'm gonna be getting them. I look forward at the PS3's lineup, and the only game I see that would be worth buying a PS3 for may be LBP. But other than that, I don't see a reason to shell out the money for one yet. Blu-Ray's cool, but I don't have an HDTV in my bed room, and don't plan on getting one anytime soon.

Ask around, and you'll find people making lists for the sake of lists. They aren't games that they're gonna get, they're games that they can add to their list to extend it. Someone posted a list of around 20 exclusive titles for the PS3, and I had only heard of around 6 or 7 of them. I could have probably added a couple of games to my list, but then it would be full of complete fluff of games that I wasn't looking forward to. Everything I listed, I can't wait to get my hands on.

[Bubble Buddy]

What was the point of your post? That you have exclusive DLC for some games, games that didn't come out, and Viva Pinata? Nice. Why not list games that are already out? The problem is so far not one game from 360 is amazing this year. Gears 2 and Fable 2 are coming out, but as I said before where is my Splinter Cell and maybe Alan Wake? To be honest I only care about Fable 2, Gears 2, Fallout 3 for 360 this year. Viv Pinata has never appealed to me so w/e, that's your opinion.

[Stickguy259]

The point of my post was that Sony isn't "the" only console out there with exclusives, as much as the Sony Defense Force that roams these comment sections would like everyone to believe. It's slightly annoying that these comment sections are so one sided against the Xbox.

And I'm not gonna disagree with you, the Xbox hasn't had a AAA hit, but the fact that the PS3 has had one isn't all that amazing. As I said in my post above yours, those were all things that I'm looking forward to. So you're right, it is my opinion.

In all honesty, as I've said, I only want to get my hands on Little Big Planet for the PS3. It's the only game that looks like something I haven't played before, and will fill a niche that the Xbox doesn't have. Other than that, I can get FPS's on my 360.

[juuken]

That's why Sony is working on 1st party.
That's what matters this time around.

And the disagree button is slammed.

[Stryfeno2]

A belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Hope implies a certain amount of despair, wanting, wishing, suffering or perseverance — i.e., believing that a better or positive outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary

[juuken]

...Fail.

Instead of proving me wrong, you come up with definitions?

Instead of buying timed exclusives and praying for 3rd party exclusives to fall out of the sky, Microsoft should be focusing on first party exclusives as well.

Denial: Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. [1] The subject may deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether (simple denial), admit the fact but deny its seriousness (minimisation) or admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility (transference).

Insecurity: Lack of security in an objective sense.

[Stryfeno2]

The behaviour is believed to vary in intensity. On one end of the scale are those that, while harbouring a obsession on a particular object or thing, are perfectly capable of understanding that the fulfilment of the obsession could lead to false hope. On the other end are the girls who are said to be obsessive in their claims on a fictional dream. Juuken behaviour can fall anywhere between these criteria, but the closer she is believed to be towards the obsessive end, the more derogative the use of the term 'fangirl' to describe her is perceived to be.

[juuken]

He is quite an interesting creature. No one knows which rathole he came from, but he is quite sneaky. He slams disagree buttons when faced with facts and cannot seem to make a good point. He has six bubbles and one has to wonder why he has six bubbles to begin with. Perhaps the bots have been feeding him these bubbles? One would think so, considering that the bots slam disagree buttons whenever they are faced with facts and they take away bubbles from the sensible people.

He likes using the term fanboy and fangirl when he is a fanboy himself. One has to wonder why he talks about the speck in his neighbor's eye when he has a speck in his own eye. He makes fun of a female gamer and calls her a fangirl, and yet he cannot acknowledge the fact that she prefers the Playstation brand because she grew up with both systems. She is also a Nintendo fan and yet he neglects that.

Such a sad individual this Patchstation is indeed. =)

[Stryfeno2]

At though at time this female can be stuborn and reply with an idiotic statement. One have to ignore and forgive her thoughts because of her IQ of 51-70, being superior in one degree to "imbecile" but not to a "monkey".

She can diffrentiate the color of consoles from Black to White to a certain degree: however; when introduce with facts her mind seems to overwork and immediately shuts down. Juuken and others like her rebels and in rage she accuses the indervidual to be a XBOT and followed by yelling how the PS3 is superior.

Juuken was diagnose of having or being indicative of low intelligence or poor learning abilities. Sorry, but that is the truth ;)

[juuken]

Patchstation is wrong yet again. The girl only speaks the truth about the Playstation 3. She knows that the Playstation 3 has it's faults, especially in 2007 when 360 fanboys roamed the forums and attacked others for owning a Playstation 3 because they believed it was just a bluray player. She was about to sell her Playstation 3 and get an XBox 360 but she saw the light instead and stuck with the system.

She is eternally grateful that she stuck with the Playstation 3 because things are turning around for the system. The library of games are growing, a lot of games she's interested in are coming soon, and online services are improving.

Patchstation tries to prove PS3 fans wrong when they defend their console of choice. He thinks that everyone should hate the PS3 because it's a terrible system and the 360 is the best. He likes to talk about one's intelligence and yet he's the dumbest bot around here. He makes up an account to bash the PS3 and thinks he's absolutely badass when he's a freaking nerd living in his parent's basement.

He judges the young woman and yet he does not know her in real life. He thinks that his petty insults are supposed to intimidate her but in reality he is wrong.

It's a pity he slammed the disagree button, when the young woman didn't slam the disagree button on his comment.

What a strange creature indeed.

Give it up Patchstation.

[BURNDOWNTHEHOUSE]

Lost Planet(PS3), Saints Row(2 on PS3), Dead Rising(Wii), Bioshock(PS3), Condemned(2 on PS3) and I think there are more.

[pulsating-bile]

Okay first thing is first. I'm Playstation for life. yep ps3 fanboy (lots of reasons why too). Second about all this whats-the-better-system business.
my answer is stated already but not because i'm a fanboy but because i'm a logical person. Here are my points in a list format(easier for the box people to see the light). here it goes:
1.Sony is more reliable. MS spent a BIL on problems that came up. Sony spent 3 BIL so problems wouldn't come up. (3 billion dollar loss for selling the ps3 at its launch price) ps3 failure rate= 0.02% what was 360's again....
2.First party exclusives will remain for both parties. They wont be as big of a deciding factor these days but a factor none-the-less. FACT:sony does have a bigger first party organization than MS. nuff said ( 360 ppl that means less exclusives for you.)
3.in a couple of months HOME will be here. Still free and at the same time eliminating anything LIVE had over HOME and its still free. mii rip-offs or entire 3D digital world hmmmm.
4.PS3 is largley untapped in power yet. (first party DEVS recently said at a DEV kit conference with other devs that any given title out right now uses at most 45%-55% of the ps3' ability. (xbox already lags and chokes on games.
5. 360 will be done within 3-4 years. ps3 will be a decade long system before its potential is realized. That means staying power so for you MS junkies thats 2 strikes your machine breaks and you have to buy more systems more often OUCH!
6. More functionality of course. less pheripherals (cheaper for us) Firmware updates. no AA battery budget. Motion control. Wi-Fi. a more silent machine compared to the xbox's noise level.
PS3: ghostly whisper
360: start your engines
7. bigger games. yes 360 games can have multiple discs meaning MS pays the publisher for the extras guess who they pass those savings on to.....
8. PSN-free DLC-a little money LIVE-NOT FREE DLC-a little more money okay some #'s 360 online service costs on top of ISP which costs coupled with DLC which costs who getting the better deal especially after Home is out
(a lil prediction here. Live will suffer like ahhhhhh think old yeller after rabies.)
9. Yeah big installs coming up but yep thats right new HDD for ps3 coming too. 160G, 240G, and even a 500G in the 2.5 inch sata fashion.
10. what are the ps3 complaints. slow start, yea ok but really long run. ppl committing violent crimes to obtain one. yea its bad might be kinda sick of me to look at it this way but if sum1 wants something bad enough because its soooo grand how far will they go, every 1 is different. and uhhhhhh oh.... that's it then.
In closing, there's 10 #'s up there but in all actuality its more like a hundred. The war isn't over yet but it is starting to look like the ps3 is the allies of WW2 and the 360 are the well you know,... the other guys.

[Karum]

DLC does just seem like you're padding the list out though but I kinda understand what you're getting at.

The article is kinda spot on though but he should have said 3rd party exclusives in the title even if it's obvious that is what he meant when talking about it. Looks to me like Sony saw it going this way years ago and have taken action where MS just threw money at people to make once exclusive games multi-plat and go ahead and get a couple exclusives of their own.

What I do hope is that MS pull their fingers out of their ass and come up with something better than a price cut to keep Sony and their 1st/2nd party devs creating innovating and intriguing IP's cuz all a price cut will force Sony into is doing the same (at some point) and that doesn't really benefit me at all :p

[felidae]

maybe for Microsoft.

it's good to know that i can play most of the 360 games on my pc.