Prodigy_BE on 17 April 2008
| EaglesEye379 said: @Prodigy_BE & jheco05 Youre forgeting something called Gears of War which was the reason many people bought a 360, including me. Also, MS owns the Halo IP, Bungie or no Bungie, its not very far-fetched to predict that MS will continue massaging this IP. Mass Effect publishing rights is still owned by MGS, so unless some money changes hands, its still 360 exclusive. BioShock seems more likely to go multiplatform as with 2K, no one knows whats happening anymore. And let me just say that at the end of amazing 2007, this same argument was put forward. Everyone said, oh look 360 has no more big guns after 2007, and then Gears 2, Fable 2, NG2, Banjo 3, Tales of Vesperia, Too Human have already set up 2008 for 360 owners. Its not going to stop anytime soon. |
Sure, they still own the IP's, but you need a top of the range studio to develop the game. And MS needs AAA devs to make them exclusive games. If they don't get developers on Halo 4 and Mass Effect 2 NOW, then they can forget about releasing them in the Christmas '09 period.
And yes, Gears of War 2 is a big gun.
But Ninja Gaiden 2 and Fable didn't shift many units.
Banjo 3: Rare hasn't made a realy good game since its N64 days (the old Rare guys all work at Free Radical Design now, and are making Haze)
And seriously, if you have to use names like Tales of Vesperia and Too Human to prove you got a good end-of-year line up, you ARE in trouble.
