Am a PS3 and 360 owners and i've played both Version but PS3 version is way easier to lay of combo's due to its advantage of Dpad whereas 360 version personally for me is terrible! Its hard to side step with its Dpad and my friends who are 360 owners only most of them play with analog stick LOL

But i don't think it should stay exclusive, Tekken is a great franchise and should be multiplatform so there would be more competition online or offline.

Tekken 6 had hype until it was announced on the 360. And I'm not saying it's a fact, but I think Tekken 6 would have sold more if it had stayed exclusive on the PS3 and been released earlier instead of making people wait a year or so for a port to the 360.

Tekken 6 would've sold more had it not been a pile of shit.  I don't think being multiplatform factors even, if anything reaching a larger audience is almost always better for sales.

I also sincerely doubt the 360 port pushed things back a year, no way Namco's really that incompetent.  

one thing i'm sure of...a PS3 exclusive Tekken6 would have an earlier release date and would have way more HYPE behind it

I doubt either honestly.  I mean maybe it'd have gotten more attention from platform evangelists, but it's arguable if that sort of hype would've translated to real sales.

For release timeframe, it's pretty obvious they pushed T6 back to give SC4 more time in the limelight.  In fact, I'm a little surprised no one's pointed this out yet, there's no way they would've launched SC4 and T6 in the same year...

Being a Tales of fan, I beg to differ with Namco's competence level.

However, I have to honestly disagree with the amount of hype behind the Tekken series. It was very meh even before it was announced for the 360. If they really saw that much hype behind the game, why put that much effort into a port?

Being exclusive almost never sells more. Hype is a wonderful thing, but it's rather insignificant when it comes to hundreds of thousands of sales within a new audience.

And to give you an idea of what they were up to, Magna Carta 2 came out about a week or so after the release of Tekken 6. Which to why they thought that would be profitable over....many of their other games (WHERE'S GRACES AND HEARTS, AS WELL AS VESPERIA NAMCO?!) anyone could guess.

And Namco's most profitable game last year was Ben 10 anyway. Won't be surprised if they just go that route.

PS3 controller is not that great either for fighting games. It is best to go with the Arcade Fighting stick which provides a much better gaming experience.

Just so I know, how are you meant to judge whether a game would have sold more/less if it were exclusive/multiplatform?

Yeah but in terms of Consoles controllers its Perfect for fighting games. Its only best to go with Arcade fighting stick if you can utilize its advantages but if you can't then you would easily get owned by someone with a PS3 controller. Theres good people who are used to the Dpad and theres people who prefer arcade stick over controller so no difference really lol

Because I believe that a company like Namco has a lot more extensive research about the potentials of the target audiences and the contrasts between costs and benefits of their products than we do.

Does it piss me off sometimes? Yes, but at least with everything not named the Tales series they tend to go with whatever option is the most cost effective with the most profit.

They just have horrible release ideas. Like Tales of the Abyss the same damn week as FF12. Or Graces the same week as FF13. I could go on.