we will see less and less Xbox 360 exclusives in 2009.

[Onyxmeth]

CGI-Quality said:

I think Sony has proven now that they are more focused on their 1st party - and good for them, Sony has HUGE 1st party exclusives coming and honestly I hope the 3rd Parties that have exclusives still lined up for PS3 i.e. FF Versus XIII & Tekken 6 , (Kingdom Hearts 3 has not been confirmed PS3 exclusive as of yet), keep those games only on PS3 . As far as sharing the wealth in terms of 3rd party exclusives - I totally disagree. I bought the 360 to play Halo (2nd Party), Gears (3rd Party), Dead or Alive (3rd Party), Mass Effect (3rd Party), not to play FFXIII (3rd Party), MGS4 (3rd Party), DMC 4 (3rd Party), or Kingdom Hearts 3 (3rd Party). I bought the PS3 to play Killzone 2 (1st Party), FFXIII & Versus XIII (3rd Party), Heavy Rain (1st/2nd Party), and Tekken 6 (3rd Party), not to play Dead Rising (3rd Party), Infinite Undiscovery (3rd Party), Mass Effect, or Alan Wake (2nd Party) - see where I'm going here? Each system should keep it's originally planned exclusives exclusive - be it 3rd party or 1st/2nd. What is the point of multiple systems if each system gets the same games? And I do understand the developers needing the money sometimes but I personally think it's not fair to the consumer who buys a certain system for a certain library of games to find out those games will not actually be only on that system, and thus won't really take advantage of their system's power, and this goes whether it's PS3 or Xbox 360 so no bias here.

So essentially the reasoning for keeping third party exclusives is because multiplats don't take advantage of each console's hardware? Fair enough. So then can all the third party exclusives that don't take advantage of hardware in the first place be ported over? You didn't give a second argument, so I assume it would be ok. Let's face it, Disgaea 3 wouldn't max out the PS2 hardware, let alone the PS3, so I guess that can come over. Ninja Gaiden II isn't any more hardware taxing than Ninja Gaiden Sigma was, so PS3 can grab that one. In fact, very few third party exclusives take advantage of much of anything. Virtua Fighter 5 ported perfectly from being a PS3 exclusive over to being a 360 game, and it looks to be vice versa for Eternal Sonata. Your argument, in at least 80% of cases, doesn't really hold much weight.