XBox 360 Exclusives of 2008

[Strategyking92]

because it means only one genre is highly successful, and people spend alot of money on one publisher rather than spreading the love with multiple games.

 

and you misunderstood the second part, all I was saying is that games on the PC don't sell nearly as well as consoles, and there aren't that many PC versions of titles that sell good. (CoD4 only sold .5 million I think) ALSO: do you know a site that does PC games sales?  Last I remember I saw that CoD4 only sold about .3 million (on PC)

I do agree that there are more PC exclusives... and I mean, who doesn't like pirates of the carribean online? and diner dash 3? you can't really compare cheaply developed games to the multi-million dollar developed games like the console exclusives. And the conversation then comes to "well, all 360 games are on PC, that means they aren't exclusive" when you make the arguement of assassins creed being on PC meaning that the PC does get high-dollar exclusives. well, guess what? Assassins creed in multiplatform.

Truth be told, if the 360 controller was a mouse and keyboard, publishers would move pc games to consoles because that's where the money is. They only release games on PC to squeeze the last bit of money they can get out of a game, it isn't their primary way to make the money back on dev. costs.

I also think it's funny how you mention 2 successful MMO's and The Sims. The Sims is one of those rare games that NEVER stops selling. It's a freak of nature. So I guess you could say that you helped my arguement by mentioning those games, because, again, they hamper sales of other PC games. But, sure, you could say that any game that sells good is competition; that's not the case with the sims. WoW and The Sims are the only blockbusters on the PC  and they are the only games that are selling good. Last I saw, 14000 PC games (that 10$ collection of flash games you can get at wal-mart) was in the top ten selling PC games.........

Now on to digital distribution.

I'm just not convinced  it is as big as you think. 15 million  steam users..... vs 12-15 million or so ps3 owners and 18 million or so 360 owners...... Boy, you think Valve would be printing nintendo quality money since they don't have to worry about console sales, since their console is used by 1/3 of the world.

I probably left alot of unanswered questions......I am too tired to finish......... but just know this: I wouldn't be arguing if I didn't think I was right.... And in no way am I anti PC, I love the PC and still (on occasion) buy games for it.