Sony Announces Late 2008 / Early 2009 Lineup

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windbane said:

 

First of all, what does NIntendo have planned for late this year? I'd really like to know. Gears of War is the only game that has sold more than Resistance, I believe. Motorstorm and Socom are also million sellers. Those and Killzone are as much AAA potential as Ninja Gaiden and Banjo. As for being more varied...I find this funny, and again, this is not a complete list anyway, but Microsoft has no answer for Little Big Planet. No answer for Motorstorm this year. No sports games. Perhaps another Scene It game to compete with the superior Buzz and the controller Microsoft copied? Who knows. They have no answer for Singstar, either. Microsoft has done a good job at finding third party games to publish to make their lineup more diverse (Too Human and Ninja Gaiden, genres that generally perform better on Sony consoles), but those are just 3rd-person action titles. Force Unleashed and many other multiplatform titles take care of those genres already (Devil May Cry). I can just as easily say Motorstorm 2 makes Sony's lineup more diverse even though third parties release a lot of racing games. Also, God of War 3 might be early 2009 as well.

Nintendo doesn't plan what it's 3rd party game developers do. Since you brought it up, we'll likely see Fatal Frame 4, Icarus, Tales of Symphonia 2, Fragile, Deadly Creatures, and Disaster as exclusives, with many others(like the new clover studios game).

However, many great Nintendo games already came out this year, not so for Sony. No More Heroes, Brawl, Kart, Wii Fit. This doesn't include multiplats like Rock Band, GHIV, CoD5, and Ghostbusters.

 

Thinking the Wii has no lineup is simply a matter of not know what you're talking about, wouldn't you agree?

 

As for Microsoft's 3rd party games getting "replaced" by DMC?

 

It's a perfect way to marginalize Ninja Gaiden 2, which will be better than DMC 4 by a huge margin, most likely.

Ninja Gaiden 2
Too Human
Fable 2
Gears 2
Alan Wake(sure it's 09, but this topic is late 08, early 09, btw)

..and games like Tales of Vespira that will probably be timed or permanent exclusive as well.

 

You act like Haze or Killzone 2 are games with a lot of hype around then. Only in the Sony world, I imagine, because jeez, I wouldn't trade a game on that MS list for Haze or KZ2, ever.

Resistance is a different story, it actually has a pedigree to be decent or even great, so I concede that Resistance could be on the list with those exclusives.

However, I don't see how the 08 PS3 lineup blows anything away, considering it's actually worse or equal to the 360 list in my eyes when you add in multiplats like GB, TLR, and others.

 

The fact is, those lists are relative balanced, and MGS4 is the best game on either list, but it doesn't make the Sony list automatically better. To me, the sony list is worse, and neither list is awe inspiring.