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RubberWhistleHistle on 07 July 2015
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BMaker11 said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:

ive seen the stats youre talking about and ive seen the lists, dont worry.

what if i were to tell you that the wii in 2008 had 150 exclusives for the year (im pulling that number jsut as an example, but i honestly wouldnt be surprised if it were somewhere around that number. the wii had a fucking shit ton of exclusives), whereas the ps3 and 360 each had somewhere around 50 exclusives.

what if i sent you a list of titles that actually verified that? would that tell you anything meaningful? would you say, "damn the wii does have the most exclusives and clearly has the best lineup with all the games it has coming out for it." is that what you would say? im just curious. im trying to make a point here.

the list would look something like this:
wii: purr pals, real hero fire fighters, build a bear workshop, survivor, spy fox in dry cereal, imagine: babyz, attack of the movies 3d, etc.

sure, theyre all exclusives.. but what does that really mean? would you say that the wii had nothing lined up for the holiday, or would you recognize these titles as delivering the goods to the gamers?

But.....the titles on PS4 aren't shovelware. That's the difference.

Say what you want about "not driving people to get a PS4", but other than the "legitimate reason to get an XBOne" in Halo 5 (PS4 did have Bloodborne, you know), what's driving people to get XBOne? Tomb Raider? You discounted games in this category since it will be available on 360 (like, say, Persona 5 will be on PS3). Gears remaster? Well, there's an Uncharted Collection. And God of War remaster. Only game that really stands out that meets your criteria of Xbox "having games" while the PS4 doesn't is the Rare Replay, but let's be honest. You can play 24 out of the 30 games right now. And you don't need some high spec, "I don't need an Xbox, I can just play these games on my PC" super computer to do it, either. The run of the mill family computer that your house got for Christmas last year because the house needed one can run those games via roms, with no hiccups. Sure, you could go the "I want to support the developer" route, which is noble, no doubt. But I was playing Banjo Kazooie and Conker's BFD on Project 64, before the Rare Replay announcement. As were many others, since it's just freeware, now. So is this kind of announcement really going to be something that people will drop $350 for (or $400, if all the 500GB sell and are phased out by then, which I doubt, since there's still AC bundles out in the wild)?

So, which side looks more "bare bones" now?  

first of all, youre making it sound like im saying the only legitimate reason to get a console was for the exclusives, which is not what i said at all. also, i never said x1 had any games either. both consoles are bare bones when it comes to exclusives that you could only get on that platform. there is nothing driving people to specifically get a ps4 or x1, i honestly think most people are buying one just for third party games.