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HappySqurriel on 30 January 2008
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crumas2 said:
HappySqurriel said:
One of the main ways Microsoft has been able to attract third party development to the XBox and XBox 360 is by producing a development environment that is so similar to a PC development environment. Although the rate has slowed, PC developers continue to take advantage of newer hardware and in the near future the XBox 360 will fall below the Minimum Requirements of many (and eventually most) PC games; at this point in time there will be very few "automatic" ports of PC games towards the XBox 360, and third party support will seem to dry up (as it did with the original XBox).

I've heard this theory before.  While I'm not contesting it, I would be interested to see a graph over the original Xbox's life that shows 3rd party game release rates.  In other words, did PC ports play a minor or a major role in the 3rd party lineup for the xbox? 


  1. Halo: Combat Evolved *
  2. Grand Theft Auto Double Pack *
  3. Halo 2 *
  4. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic *
  5. Ninja Gaiden Black
  6. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory *
  7. Burnout 3: Takedown
  8. Project Gotham Racing 2
  9. Forza Motorsport
  10. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time *
  11. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell *
  12. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas *
  13. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow *
  14. Ninja Gaiden
  15. Soul Calibur II
  16. NCAA Football 2004
  17. Panzer Dragoon Orta
  18. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 *
  19. ESPN NFL 2K5
  20. Psychonauts *
  21. Burnout Revenge  
  22. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition *
  23. World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 International *
  24. SSX 3
  25. NFL 2K3 *
  26. Half-Life 2 *
  27. Madden NFL 2003 *
  28. Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
  29. Madden NFL 2005 *
  30. ESPN NFL Football
  31. Jade Empire *
  32. World Series Baseball 2K3
  33. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 *
  34. Madden NFL 2004 *
  35. NBA Street Vol. 2
  36. MVP Baseball 2004
  37. Burnout 2: Point of Impact
  38. NCAA Football 2003
  39. Rallisport Challenge 2
  40. NCAA Football 2005
  41. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003 *
  42. Beyond Good & Evil *
  43. World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 *
  44. Top Spin *
  45. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay *
  46. NCAA Football 07
  47. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 *
  48. Fight Night Round 2
  49. TimeSplitters 2
  50. Madden NFL 2002 *

Top 50 ranked XBox games on Gamerankings.com, bold games only appeared on the XBox and games with red stars appeared on the PC. If you only looked at third party "Exclusive" XBox games you will notice that a large portion of them were released to the PC.