Modern Warfare 2 trumps entire first party lineups

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Arius Dion said:

leatherhat said:

Arius Dion said:
Hence why the competition MUST parrot and fabricate this notion that Wii is inhospitable to third parties because if TP's ever left Sony/M$ for greener pastures those platforms would perish.

Not really, both have at least one mega series (GT and Halo) which would be capable of selling a lot of consoles all by itself, and both own a ton of high quality solid selling games that they could put on their system (especially sony).

I doubt one multimillion selling game such as a GT or Halo would be enough to really push either console out of the realm of GC numbers. And Sony's first party software besides the aforementioned hasn't shown to be all that impressive (#'s wise) Xbox first party is nonexistent. Which is my point third parties are largely responsible for those platforms success.

Which is a dangerous position to be in, in my opinion.

Multiple new ips, 4 of which became 3 million plus sellers (resistance, motorstorm, LBP, uncharted), more first party studios then anyone, and a ton of highly sought out and well respected IPs (GoW, socom, ratchet, team ico's stuff). Sony may not have huge guns like Mario and zelda (except for GT) but they have a dozen or so metroid level hits and a high critical reception. I think sony would be just fine with first party alone. Of course, better to have third parties than not.