Sony Announces Late 2008 / Early 2009 Lineup

[rocketpig]

windbane said:

rocketpig said:
^Yeah, I just saw Bryan's posts. Sony and MS have very different strategies on how to deal with exclusives... MS buys publishing rights, Sony does most of it in-house. There are pluses and minuses to each method and they both work for different reasons.

Yeah, for sure. And if Ninja Gaiden 2 never goes to PS3, meaning they wasted their time developing Ninja Gaiden Sigma, then obviously the publishing deal was about exclusivity. Still, if you are going to handpick games from third parties, it's not a fair comparison if Sony just doesn't use the same strategy. A game like MGS4 might as well be considered published by Sony since it's being bundled with the console. But hey, he wins on technicality...although he only specifies the genres that M$ had that Sony did not, which is also a little unfair considering there is no match for several of Sony's games. Oh well.

 

I don't see the point in comparing lineups unless you include every game coming out for the console that year.
 Bryan was definitely cherry-picking that list to make MS look good. Personally, the 360 lineup is more interesting to me but that has a lot to do with the shooter-heavy 2007 lineup and that I'm kinda burned out on shooters right now, which appears to be Sony's strongest suit in 2008.

Either way, both consoles have a lot of good games coming and I'm looking forward to MGS4 next month. We'll see if Kojima recaptures MGS (which I loved) or MGS2 (which I loathed). Either way, it will give me a lot to talk about because my next editorial is going to center around the game, for better or worse.