Why Now Is The Time To Buy a 360

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mrstickball said:
Yes, it's not a system to buy if you don't like video games.

Expecially good ones - the X360 has more highly-ranked games (80%+) than both the Wii and PS3 combined, and doubled.

There are tons of great console exclusives for most every genre coming our out this year:

JRPGs (Eternal Sonata, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Kingdom Under Fire)
Western RPGs (Mass Effect, Two Worlds)
Shooters (Halo 3, Bioshock, Left 4 Dead)
Fighters (DOA4, various XBLA games)
Racing Games (Forza Motorsports 2, PGR 4, Dirt)
Family Games (Viva Pinata)
Action/Adventure (Dead Rising, Kameo)
Real-Time Strategy (LOTR: BFME 2, C&C 3, Halo Wars, Universe @ War, Tom Clancy's Endwar)

And outside of L4D, everything is out by the end of the year. Most people want to pidgeonhole the X360 as a shooter box - it's more of a "everything that's good" box. No system really has the great lineup of any of those genres. The only weakness is platformers, but Rare is in the process of fixing that.

The 360 does have a number of great games. The problem mostly lies with the audience that owns the system. Shooters & sports games sell fantasticly while many other really don't move many sales. They'll also have a new Katamari game which I imagine will sell much better on the Wii version (while motion control does help, I still think this would have happened had it been GC vs Xbox). The 360 hasn't captured the attention of casual players so games like Viva Pinata are ridiculed so that people don't want to be caught dead with it in their library should their friends see it. Meanwhile, it'll sell a minimum of 500k on the DS.