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Ah it feels good to know that i'm not as busy as i was for the past week now and now that i have some time i will get to posting some news i've come across, now i'm a very active person in the gaming industry, have a few friends who work with SCEA some are long time employees and some just recently picked up, i've been around the halls of activison and treyarch these last few days (i'll post some very good news soon about Call of duty: black ops) but most importantly i got time to learn from the executives and employees of SCEA and found out some very interesting stuff
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Now our man here told us this stuff outside the job so we're going to keep his name out of this (because i might get in trouble for saying this stuff)but like always our sources are free to remain anonymous AS LONG as what
they say is true, (but of course this is an opinion from ones thought to another)
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Now the topic we was on was Exclusives and this went both ways on the subject saying they was both "Important" and "Nothing new", Our buddy cleared things up by saying "Exclusives are a very important thing, without them why bother asking yourself what system you should get?" he told me "But at the same time its nothing new, this generation of gaming has made it known that exclusives are just that, a game thats on one system that aren't on another, if you asked people if they cared about them your probably going to hear them say 'no' " clearly he points out that not all gamers care for exclusives and would rather buy third party game
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"Games like Call of duty will sell because the popularity on it, because everyone gets to play it no matter what system you have, like it or not the third party game will always appeal to the crowd more then a exclusive, simply because it's a win-win situation" and when asked 'HOW' exclusive is 'Exclusive' these days he simply said "If you've got the money then that word fades away, to be honest exclusives are a thing of the past and sooner or later games will just be playable on anything that can handle it, you can disagree and say different but business is money and money talks for it self"

other then that our buddy had nothing much to say regarding the topic and we moved on, truly i think the only exclusives that are around that will stay is timed exclusives


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Yes, he's correct. Exclusive third party games are almost inexistant nowadays, especially with such similar consoles like the 360 and the PS3.



Really? So what about:

Gears trilogy, including 3 which was just announced?
Mass Effect trilogy, including 2 which just came out?
Splinter Cell Conviction, which just came out?
Dragon Quest X, which is eventually coming?
Monster Hunter 3?
Monster Hunter Frontier Online?
Tales of Graces?
Samurai Warriors 3?

There's probably a lot more but I can't be bothered to name them all.



great, now port your games to 360 and stop making consoles.



I live for the burn...and the sting of pleasure...
I live for the sword, the steel, and the gun...

- Wasteland - The Mission.

Translation:

Verses XIII is probably no longer exclusive, but it's not because we messed up by not paying the developer off, it's because everything is changing magically around us, and we can't be expected to keep up with these amazingly trying times when developers actually want some incentive for keeping a game exclusive to our console, and we're just not willing to shell out more losses for the sake of the few hundred thousand hardcore Playstation fans who actually care this game was almost exclusive in the first place.



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

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ElGranCabeza said:
Really? So what about:

Gears trilogy, including 3 which was just announced?
Mass Effect trilogy, including 2 which just came out?
Splinter Cell Conviction, which just came out?
Dragon Quest X, which is eventually coming?
Monster Hunter 3?
Monster Hunter Frontier Online?
Tales of Graces?
Samurai Warriors 3?

There's probably a lot more but I can't be bothered to name them all.

What?



I live for the burn...and the sting of pleasure...
I live for the sword, the steel, and the gun...

- Wasteland - The Mission.

andremop said:
Yes, he's correct. Exclusive third party games are almost inexistant nowadays, especially with such similar consoles like the 360 and the PS3.

Inexistant? Almost the entire Wii third-party library is exclusive.



"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."

"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."

Severance said:
ElGranCabeza said:
Really? So what about:

Gears trilogy, including 3 which was just announced?
Mass Effect trilogy, including 2 which just came out?
Splinter Cell Conviction, which just came out?
Dragon Quest X, which is eventually coming?
Monster Hunter 3?
Monster Hunter Frontier Online?
Tales of Graces?
Samurai Warriors 3?

There's probably a lot more but I can't be bothered to name them all.

What?

All 3rd party exclusive games.



Sounds Like a Certain Exclusive is Going multiplat.



Atto Suggests...:

Book - Malazan Book of the Fallen series 

Game - Metro Last Light

TV - Deadwood

Music - Forest Swords 

CGI-Quality said:
To me, this line of thinking will only hurt the industry. Consoles sharing over 60-70% of libraries means there's little to no point in making more than one. May as well have a universal console, which IMO, would be a tragic move.

with 3rd party, yes but 1st and 2nd party are where you seperate each system. Both Sony and Nintendo have invested well into their 1st and 2nd party moreso this time , and their game's are showing fantastic result's.

Sadly though Microsoft seem's to be In my opinion dragging their feet on first party investment. Which has alway's seem to me to dilute your system's overall value if your 1st party or 2nd party is not very strong. I felt that way about the PS2 though it was and still is a fantastic system like the xbox360 the 1st party and 2nd party offering's were not very strong. which is fine and all, but unless you want to keep paying every 3rd party developer to keep extending the exclusive's to only your platform it's only going to remain expensive to do so, because of the overall cost.

This generation is where I think the PS3 have shined is in it's 1st and 2nd party game's even over quite a number of 3rd party quality game's.

 



I AM BOLO

100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...

ps:

Proud psOne/2/3/p owner.  I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.