From the PlanetXbox360.com feature top 10 list:
"The list of Xbox 360 exclusives for 2012 isn't nearly as impressive as past years, but there are still a few worthwhile reasons to check them out. Anyways, the Xbox 360 isn't getting as many AAA exclusive titles as in previous years, but what they've lost in AAA games, they're making up for in XBLA games. Six of the exclusives on this list are just for the Xbox Live Arcade, which means it's going to be a great year for the digital distribution service. There is also a lot coming for the Xbox 360 that we just don’t know about yet, so remember that and we may make a new list later this year; for now here our is our list of the top 10 Xbox 360 exclusives of 2012."
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Really solid list.
This deserves to be neither a bragging list of exclusives or a top ten list.
You 360 owners would be so screwed without 3rd parties.
I bubbled you up cause that was soo funny!
But yeah the hardcore is dying on the 360. Atleast I'll be getting Halo 4!
witcher 2
trails evolution
minecraft
All within a month. Yeah the hardcore is really dying.
i have played minecraft and the witcher 2... and thats not on my xbox 360..
Fail list. Credibility lost forever.
You can play pretty much any Microsoft Windows supported game on Linux or even Apple Mac machines with the right software/process. What is YOUR point again? I think it vanished.
The lineup has been crazy so far this year. Right now I'm addicted to Minecraft, but once I finally tire of it, I still have to go back to finish Trials Evolution (*shudder*) and The Witcher II. I enjoyed the hell out of Fez - it was a nice, original experience. Alan Wake's American Nightmare was a lot of fun as well. Then we have Dust: An Elysian Tale, Forza Horizon, Steel Battalion, Fable: The Journey, Halo 4, and many more to look forward to later in the year. It's an exciting year to be an Xbox 360 owner!
Journey, Starhawk and Twisted Metal are nice, and there's also the Tales of Graces port from the Wii and the artsy Closure game - but that's mostly it so far. Or did I miss anything?
There are many announced titles, but almost none of them have a firm release date and we don't even know if they'll make it in 2012. So it's a big question mark...
The X360 on the other hand (and excluding Kinect stuff) saw at the same time period games like American Nightmare, Fez, Trials Revolution, Anomaly Warzone Earth, Sine Mora, Minecraft, The Splatters and The Witcher 2. It's a pretty solid release line so far and a win in both quality and diversity.
There's also an interesting trend here: while Sony takes discounted releases and pushes them into retail games with a 60$ price tag (like Starhawk: Warhawk was a 40$ title with digital release if I recall correctly), Microsoft is going the opposite direction - taking 60$ retail games and cramming them into 15$ digital distribution titles (like American Nightmare - which actually runs on an improved engine over the original Alan Wake).
Some people might rule off digital games (especially when it's not convenient for them while picking sides), but that would be quite stupid considering how both consoles had their top exclusive in 2012 actually released on PSN/XBLA (The Journey and Trials respectively).
Infact, even when talking content wise digital competes with retail nowadays. Trials for example: Here's a 2D side scroller running on a top looking 3D engine with some very impressive lighting and physics, supporting up to 4 players online and offline with extensive community features and equipped with an amazingly complex level editor that lets people create completely new games from FPS games to puzzle games.
Sounds familiar? Perhaps because it's the exact same features you'll find in another top game: LittleBigPlanet - Only the core gameplay is a bit different (and perhaps Trials caters more to the hardcore players in the campaign mode) but the extensive features are pretty similar.
But LittleBigPlanet was a 60$ offering more content than almost any 60$ game, and now Trials Revolution is a 15$ game offering more content than almost any 60$ game. Pricing and distribution model are now pretty much irrelevant.
Shhhhh. Don't mention all of those 360 games that supposedly don't exist. There's an "ignorance is bliss" factor on N4G, and fans of other consoles would like to keep pretending that there are no 360 exclusives.
got to ANY reputable gaming community and the responses will be the same..
-starhawk
-twisted metal
-journey
so far this year exclusives on 360:
-fable heroes
-your shape: fitness evolved
(please remember that the definition of exclusives is that you can't play it anywhere else)
Twisted metal- already sold like shit
Journey- Psn which means it goes beyond selling like shit
Maybe if Sony was making profit from all these games then you could say how awesome they are but they went from being worth 100billion to being worth less than 17 billion all thanks to the PS3 and there exclusives
Heavy Rain. God of War III. MAG (an original spin on a stale genre that was largely ignored), GT5 (regardless of what popular opinion was at launch) was a juggernaut. 3D Dot Games Heroes. White Knight Chronicles. Yakuza 3. ModNation Racers. Many other pretty great JPGs. Dead Nation (PSN). I think PS3 had the better variety of quality games that year, and overall more original too, which to me equals a better lineup... unless there are more 360 games that I'm missing.
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@ Arnon
10% - wow, it's a shame you don't enjoy more than 10% of a quality output. I'll just add that up for you... So there's often 8-10 PS3 exclusives a year (many great and some not). Sometimes we're lucky enough to expect more. 10% of 10 games is 1 exclusive title a year that's worth owning? Seriously, just one?
When in 2009: Demon's Souls, Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time, inFamous, Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 were worth owning. In 2010: GT5, Heavy Rain, God of War 3 and 3D Dot Game Heroes were worth owning. In 2011: LittleBigPlanet 2, Uncharted 3, inFamous 2 and Resistance 3 (great, despite popular opinion) were worth owning.
The trend continues in 2012, only 5 months in: Journey, Twisted Metal and Starhawk - all worth owning and the latter two mentioned are the quintessential PS3 (or any platform for that matter) multiplayer experiences.
And each year, there have definitely been more great niche titles that were worth a gamer's time if perhaps not owning, but never truly acknowledged in the mainstream.
10%.... yeah.... see why people find it hard to take what you say seriously?
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@ DK286K
Not many people have faith in Kinect games especially when people that have made them include Peter Molyneux. XBLA games, whilst great and I really want a 360 to play them, are not the meaty experiences that come from something like Halo 4. It's not even about ignoring them anyway. Some of them look good. It's just when you compare them to that other console's exclusive output it just looks weak from Microsoft, who are able to do so much more.
And just to add, The Witcher 2 and Minecraft aren't exclusives. Great games, but not something that makes the 360 unique, especially when they are inferior versions of PC games.
I beat the shit out of God of War 3, 3 times in a week. And the only reason I did that was because I tried to justify the purchase. That's not worth owning. I could have rented that and saved myself over half a bill. Sure the games can be good, but I need more gameplay time to justify spending $65 per game. I've owned and beat all the Uncharteds, which again, I did within the span of a few days and could have saved myself a LOT of money (almost $200). Same with Killzone 2, inFAMOUS, inFAMOUS 2, and Heavy Rain. The only games in that entire backlog that I would hold onto would be Demon's Souls, 3D Dot Game Heroes, and Little Big Planet 2, and I still have 2/3 of those.
White Knight Chronicles was factually shitty. Yakuza and ModNation Racers were average. I played Twisted Metal and to be brutally honest, that game was pretty shitty compared to it's previous iterations. I haven't had the chance to play StarHawk (looks good), and I played through Journey in one sitting (2 hours(?)). That might be worth owning only because it's $15.
Get your head out of your ass, and actually look at the value of what you're buying. It's incredibly sheepish to purchase a game all for the simple fact that it's exclusive. That applies to all consoles.
(This is coming from someone who works in the game industry, owns all platforms, and actually likes to collect games as well as play them)
Just kidding.
Halo 4 is an obvious one. Alan wake looks good. Fez is finally coming out. Looking ok, but nowhere near as good as previous years.
They’re looking good, but I need some more meaty titles on that list.
Halo 4 isn’t enough for me.
It’s not like I’m hurt by MS not making more core games, I’m just saying they’re losing sales from the hardcore demographic by ignoring us almost entirely.
The truth is extremely inconvenient to them, so they have to resort to trolling.
Take alan wake for example, isnt it a chapter sold on xbla instead of a whole game sold in retail?
Most likely nobody wanted to fund a full retail game. Not even microsoft when they have all that cash in their pocket.
If ppl want high budget retail games and microsoft isnt giving them, than they can complain all they want.
Many ppl have a 512mb or a 4 gb xbox. What u want them to play if there is no retail games to buy?
Ps3 is somewhat immune to this becuz most ps3 have a big hdd and u can stick almost any hdd in it.
The reason ps3 has lots of games now is becuz ppl complained. If xbox only gamers complained too, im pretty sure microsoft would spend some money on making some mid/high budget retail games.
sure there are some games on xbox but definately there isnt much, nothing announced beyond halo4. there's a few console-exclusive games releasing on xbla which there's no exclusive contracts signed by microsoft.
most of my friends that are xbox fanboys are just playing third-party games on their console.
im just re-playing some games on xbox that i previously played on the ps3 just to collect some achievements.
but dont worry, im sure halo4 alone will be a huge launch and put xbox way on the top putting the ps3 and wii-u to shame.
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Someone needs to look up exclusive in the dictionary.
*reads article* oh god, it is
it is funny how they are up front about padding the list out with arcade titles. weeeaaak
10) crimson dragon (an on rails kinect game? yeah, sounds great)
9) mark of ninja (arcade. whatever. i can play games like this on newgrounds.com)
8) steel battalion (another on rails kinect game. I have heard nothing but bad things about the controls)
7) minecraft (not an exclusive. in fact, it is a terrible port, lacking everything that gives the game its longevity. mods, server features, user content, the true community, the skins, and so on. the 360 version is not even the latest standard version of the game. its garbage)
6) trails evolution (arcade. a pretty good game, from what I hear. but it is still just arcade)
5) alan wake's american nightmare (coming to PC. once again, arcade)
4) Fez (likely to come to other platforms. also, arcade, once again)
3) Forza Horizon (finally a legit, non kinect, retail exclusive. of course, it isnt made by turn 10, and it will be more arcadey. so who knows if it will be any good)
2) fable the journey (........ you serious?)
1) halo 4 (wow, that was hard to predict. the entire list was BS padding, just so this game could be on a top ten list)
really, if this list were honest, it would be this
10) kinect crap
9) kinect crap
8) kinect crap
7) kinect crap
6) kinect crap
5) Onechanbara Z: Kagura ( guaranteed crap)
4) Phantom breaker (already released. crap)
3) Forza Horizon
2) Akai katana shin (actually a cool bullet hell game)
1) halo 4
it is not a good year for the 360. but the standard is set pretty low
Here's the funniest part of your "analysis":
4) Fez (likely to come to other platforms. also, arcade, once again)
So, with your crystal ball, you have predicted that Fez will eventually come to other platforms, and therefore is worthy of your scorn. Plus, it's an XBLA game - wow, you had a field day with that one.
9) mark of ninja (arcade. whatever. i can play games like this on newgrounds.com)
This one is almost as funny. Because you can play a similar game at some website, the actual Xbox 360 exclusive shouldn't count, and you just shrug it off as "whatever".
I find your list pretty funny too. Of course, it reeks of desperation as you search (in vain) for the most ridiculous reasons to try to discredit legitimate games.
If a ps3 fanboy list psn exclusive 360 fanboys will mark it down and if 360 fanboys list live exclusive ps3 fanboy will mark it down.
recycle, repeat.
as fun as some of them may be (I love the hell out of journey), they are not a replacement for retail games. they are good on the side, but they cant carry a console. I thought this was evident from the day 1.
But why don't you put up a PS3 list? And I can guarantee one thing about it.... Halo 4 will sell more then all combined.
Kind of funny that EVERY year the 360 has the best selling exclusive.
Most exclusives dont interest me. I love gears, halo, uncharted, resistance, alan wake and a few others that were one offs like heavy rain and lost odyssey but for all the massive lists, most i would never buy.
Shit just rename it the multiplatform console, it isn't even a contest anymore. Ms threw in the towel and is more interested in the money kinect makes them. Than what the games for the non casuals earn them, except for halo.
If a vast majority of a consoles appealing exclusive games are from 2+ yrs ago, that isn't saying much about it's future lineup.
If this is the current focus of microsoft's xbox division, why for the next gen would it magically revert back to the exclusive lineup support. The 360 had in it's first 2-3 yrs before microsoft closed nearly all it's first party studios, and payed for 3rd party timed exclusives or temporary exclusive dlc ect.
If this same trend(ms focusing much less on gaming and primarily on features), continues for the next xbox, how many of you 360 owners are willing to put down $350-450, for the next box?(If you can't respond to this question as a honest gamer don't bother replying.)
Since when are the only real games retail games. Minecraft sold over a million copies in a week so there is a strong enough market there. And whether a game is on PC doesnt matter to console gamers is a moot point. It has a very small affect on the game.
I know its a lost cause because when you talk about kinect the so called gamers seem to go retard mode but any ways. The Kinect games on the list are clearly aimed at the core. Crimson Dragon is a motion controlled Panzer Dragoon which has never been called a casual game in fact Panzer Dragoon Orta was regarded as one of the hardest games of last gen. Steel Battalion is a controller based game with augmented interaction, its like playing any other FPS just with more ways to interact. Fable the Journey is one of the most ambitious titles being made, all I have to say is free form spell cast, nothing like that exists (not even Sorcety). But sad thing is you still got people that think Kinect doesnt work not knowing that it is extremely fast and accurate these days.
Then dont forget if all else fails the 360 still has the premiere FPS of the last 2 generations. Thats ten games mentioned, not even talikng about the games that came out already and then add in the multiplats even the amount they have is damn near to many.
I love how they are supporting kinect. I already have some of the games that came out already, and am getting Crimson Dragon Steel Battalion, Fable journey, and Halo day one Alan wake was great. Minecraft broke records.
The 360 be kickin a$$ on the low.
The only reason push for kinect so hard on this site is because there arent enough reasonable voices to have a clear conversation. For instance Steel Battalion should be on every so called core gamers check list, but they have been pumped so full of negative bile they can even see a chance to touch the future.
Besides this generation is solidified. The games that have been dominating are going to dominate. Any efforts for new core games that are standard should be being developed for the next gen, so they can launch with some quality software. Thats just good business. Right now MS should be focusing on Kinect especially since it is going to be such a big part of their future. Anything else would be..... stupid.
Non Kinect games this year include Forza, Alan Wake, The Witcher, Deadlight, Sine Mora, Fable Heroes, Fez and Akai Katana.
LOL AND HALO 4.
Everyone's happy!
you are paying $60 a year to play non-exclusives and arcade games. If you are happy with that, it is because you have allowed microsoft to condition you to be content with a sub-standard library. not just by this gen's standards, but previous gen standards.
Kinect is a device SPECIFICALLY for hardcore gamers - the possibilities that open up when you can use your whole body instead of just a few fingers are mind-boggling, and it's so sad that you thumbstick-fetishists can't see it.
- Kinect owner
I noticed people keep saying "Its not exclusive if its seen on PC" Well, believe it or not, it is exclusive because its not see on the Competing console whether its PS3 or Wii. MS isn't competing with PC. Just like PS3's Dust 514 isn't competing with PC its working along side it. Mine craft in the future could see Cross play with PC who knows, So yes if its only on PC and 360 its still considered an exclusive.
People keep saying it's not exclusive if it's on PC because IT'S NOT EXCLUSIVE IF IT'S ON PC. I don't know what planet you're on, but here on Earth, if a game is available on a console AND on PC, they will debate which one will be better for them and then purchase that version. Many Xbox owners have eschewed getting the 360 version of The Witcher 2 because the extra content there will be given to them for free on PC. Dust514 is a piss poor example because there is no PC version; it's working WITH a PC game, not a version of itself on that platform.
And, just for the record, while Minecraft will probably sell more than Journey(which, itself, is the fastest-selling PSN game of all time), I doubt there are many who would play both and say the former is better.
BTW not very many people look at both the PC and Xbox and buy according to how it looks. They'll buy it for the there favorite platform, as I said not very "many" people do it. That's just what ppl on N4G and other sites say. But in mainstream they buy it for whatever platform they like best/ play more.
50 bucks a year gets you free games every month and great deals!
60 bucks a year for XBL gets you the basic PSN package.