So...being realistic...XBOX360 made Ps3 flop this year

[Paul_Warren]

"One game? What is this abomination of a fanboy post. Lets just say PS3 and 360 have both delivered quality exclusive and multiplat AAA titles. Stop being such fanboys. If you look at the library of games over the months, Ps3 and 360 are pretty much neck and neck, you can't go wrong with either this year."

Actually, I would alter that statement that I made earlier a bit no to say that no exclusive game on the 360 this year that was thought of as being a guaranteed AAA prior to its release lived up to its expectations.

I just went to check GameRankings data to see what it would say on the matter and this is what I found.

Gears of War 2. Its Gamerankings' score is lower than that of Gears of War I.
Fable II's GameRankings' score is higher than score of the two prior games on the original xbox but when many were saying it was going to be the best WRPG of all time, I find that its GameRankings score is only an 88.9, and with most of its review scores being in, I doubt that it will ever be at a 90 again.

Too Human once thought by many to have the potential to be the greatest action rpg game of all time. Yet, it was a total failure at that task. Only bringing in a Game Rankings' score of 68.920 when all was said and done.

Ninja Gaiden II a succesor to a game that had a Game Rankings' score of 94.025. The 360 version only came in at a 82.024 which is also a lower score than the remake of the original game had on the PS3. Sigma's Game Rankings' score is 86.569.

Unreal Tournament III made by the same company that makes the 360's flagship title surely the best console version would turn out to be 360 one. Yet much like Sigma and Ninja Gaiden II, the PS3 version of UT III turns out to be the superior one. PS3 UT III GR score = 86.564. 360 UT III = 82.405.

Lastly, Microsoft put a lot of effort into trying to get great jrpgs on the 360 this time out. But at the end of the day the scores for them indicate that none of them is in anyway a great game. Tales of Vesperia = 83.750, Lost Odyssey = 79.118, and Infinite Undiscovery = 68.758.

The only facet of the 360's game development that could be said to have matched or exceeded expectations this year was its Live Arcade games like Braid, Castle Crashers, and Geometry Wars 2.

On the other hand, the PS3 met or exceeded expectations with all of its games this year. Little Big Planet has the highest Game Rankings score of any exclusive on any console this year.

GTA IV PS3 is considered to be a better game than the 360 version, and it has the highest Game Rankings score of any game during this console generation.

Metal Gear Solid received a 10 from IGN and Famitsu and in his review of Metal Gear Solid 4 in Dave Halverson's Play Magazine, Nick Des Barres said that MGS4 was the best game that has been released on any console in this console generation. Some of the publications that are less biased than Play or IGN did their best to bring MGS 4's final score down a bit farther than it should have been; but still the fact remains that MGS 4 shows very well the fact that adventure and story driven games work much better on the PS3 than on the 360, so it can very definitely be said that MGS 4 accomplished its mission. And as far as being a game from the Land from the Rising Sun that was supposed to give its console pops during the Summer months, MGS4 certainly obliterated NG II at that task.

Sega's Valkyrie Chronicles which is exclusively on the PS3 with little to no expectations placed upon it proved to be the years best Japanese role playing game and the best Japanese Role Playing game released on any console (not counting handhelds) during this generation. It even received a higher review score at IGN than did the 360's Fable II and showed that as Play Magazine said "that the heart that Sega showed during the Dreamcast era still beats in their Japanese HQ."

The only PS3 game that might not have met some people's expectations in 2008 was Resistance 2. Although a strong case can be made for the fact that it did meet and exceed expectations. It received a 95 score from IGN as high as their score of Gears 2, but again most pro 360 publications worked to lower Resistance 2's scores, whether intentionally or unintentionally, so that its Game Rankings score may not be a measure of the game's true worth even though it still scores higher than Resistance I unlike Gears 2 which as pointed out above has a lower Game Rankings' score than Gears I.

As far as overall quality of its games and in meeting the expectations placed upon its games, the PS3 did a much better job of delivering what was promised in 2008 than did the 360.