The 3rd Party Balance Sheet of Terror

[amirnetz]

BKK2 said:
Heavy Rain is being published by Sony, but I really don't see the point of this list, the vast majority of third party games are multiplatform, and the vast majority of exclusive games are first party. The handful of games which are third party and exclusive are fairly irrelevant, and most of those are only timed exclusive too.

As long as every platform is getting all of the 3rd parties (or the vast majority of those) then none of the platforms is at risk of sinking into a death spriral. It is pretty obvious that right now both the 360 and PS3 are very vialable platforms and the very short list of 3rd party exlusives (for each side) proves the point pretty well. As long as this holds true this excercise might seem a bit boring, espacially when fanboy opinions on the quality of these titles is discouraged in this thread.

But this equilibrium can change. 3rd party support might drop for one of the platform at some point. The list will allow us to track and detect such a trend. You need to be patient here. No astounding insight is going to be unearth by the list in the next few weeks. But give us a few months and something interesting might develop. At this early stage I want to establish an accurate baseline for the tracking process.

Makes sense?