Sony PS3 Exclusives - First Party

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ElGranCabeza said:

Aldro said:

Lets take a look at the MS exclusives.. (do note that I don't consider PC/360 as exclusives).


2008:
Gears 2

2009:
Forza 3
Halo ODST
Halo wars

2010:
Alan wake
Halo reach

2011:
Gears 3
Forza 4

 

(Must have easily missed a few^)

It's mostly games that are sequels, and coming after the game has already launched once n the platform.

The last guardian, team ico has yet to release an actual game on the PS3, thats why its taking so long.

Naughty dog has been spot on with Uncharted 2 & 3.

Killzone 2 was the first to launch, spot on with 3.

LBP2 was delayed just like Gears 3 was.. nothing really omfg about that.

GT5 once again first game to launch (minus prolouge) unlike Forza that has had 3 games over the course of GT5. PD are just slow ill give ya that, they put too much content into their game and Turn 10 are even bigger than they are in terms of people working there lol.

Thing is, when you have not established a franchise yet, you will make a big deal out of it way before. Alan wake comes to mind.

But when you have a brand like Halo Gears Forza, after the very first iterations, theres no need to have a 5 year ass : Yeaah man its coming.

Even Sony follows that. Only difference is: Sony is putting out so much more and a lot of it is actually new (not to mention they started getting the games quite late, so they had to promote something in the early years).

Yes you can find black sheeps within the Sony first party that might take longer (Team Ico & PD) but theres no chance that the majority of the Sony exclusives once already landed, will come out within a reasonable time frame. And that majority just might be 2 or 3x the size of Microsofts so it is not nearly as noticeable.

I'm a gamer and I love to be excited over games and I do have a nice shair of patience, especially since im being spoiled with so many games. Go ahead and announce shit already now if you're gonna release it 5 years: I dont give a fuck! I love it! XD

As for the whole 2011 or what you said about speculations part, Like i said: Its merely speculations. But I will be bumping this topic once they get confirmed :D. I cannot believe ND worked on two games while Santa monica has.. been helping with one lol.

You missed a lot, but different strokes for different folks. MS approach definitely works, maybe even better than Sony as they get all 3rd party games on their system, oftentimes the superior version, and usually have some exclusive DLC to make people more interested in buying that  version of the game. People don't understand that having a huge amount of 1st party studios is a huge risk. If the studio does not deliver then you're making money. You have to pay for contractors and employees, life insurance, 401k, employee events, etc etc. You also have to pay for regular business expenses like equipment, building rentals, electricity, cleaning, etc etc. It's a major expense, yes, if MS bought Epic then Gears would be exclusive forever and they wouldn't have to keep paying Epic to keep the franchise exclusive, but how many "Gears" are out there? Fortnite looks like a bomb in the making unless it's an XBLA/PSN/Steam game. Just think of it this way, SP makes one game every 2 years, if they increase their size to 100 employees, they would be unprofitable and cost Sony money. As a matter of fact, that's what happened with Evolution after a couple of Motorstom games bombed. If you remember they had to lay some people off and merge them with London studios. Hopefully this new Motorstorm for PSN is better and sells better.

 

MS approach is definitely a safer approach than Sony,  Sony's approach = high risk, high reward, but they haven't gotten rewarded yet, even with all this talent and 1st party they haven't gotten a game that sells as much as, say, Halo, or even Gears.

is microsofts approach is safer, then what approach would you prefer having more choice on the shelfs or less choice, id prefer sonys approach simply because theres more games to choose from