E3: So, who do you really think had the best conference?

[Cueil]

NJ5 said:

Cueil said:

NJ5 said:

As far as new announcements of exclusives, I think Nintendo clearly won. A lot of MS's announcements were PC/360 games which are not exclusives, and Sony managed to only show one new exclusive for 2010, and none for 2009. In terms of unexpected exclusives, Microsoft showed Crackdown 2 and Halo Reach, two first-party shooters...

Sony's problem was that their biggest announcements were all leaked or obvious.

 

Tell me again how Microsoft doesn't consider a Windows/Xbox 360 game exclusive?  I mean honestly do you think any PS2 game is no longer exclusive just because it's on the PSP now? 

Because exclusive means "only available on...". Terms like console-exclusive are sad IMO. It's either an exclusive or not. If you want to throw PC into the mix fine, but that's clearly not Microsoft's focus at E3.

As far as PS2/PSP games go... I guess you'd call them timed-exclusives. That is, they were exclusives for a while (the same as games like Ninja Gaiden 2 and Bioshock oops this one was on PC too).

 

Yeah... it's "only available on Microsoft Platforms"  it doesn't sound as nice as just saying Playstation, but it's the same thing.  And exclusive doesn't really hold to a specific platform anymore... every console maker has at least two platforms and I think the days of viewing each as separate are surely over.  And lets be honest... Sony and Microsoft look at their "Platforms" as a single entity when it comes to games.  And movies now... thank you Sony and Microsoft!