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Keep in mind PS announces their exclusive games like 2 years in advance, while MS announces games closer to their release. MS needs more first/second parties making games for them as PS is doing. WTF is RARE up to these days?



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eh..its not you at all.

I think Microsoft's Focus will be on Kinect next year, 360s Big game next fall, Kinect Fit.



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you forgot socom 4 every ones underestimating it for some reason and probably agent and this

http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/08/21/ps3-has-unannounced-games-sony-has-yet-to-share/

i believe ME3 and L4D3 will release simultaneity on the PS3 and 360, not really surprised there was a time where sony didnt really have much to show for around 06-08 sony consoles dont really hit there stride till  mid and late of there console life



                                                             

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CDiablo said:

Keep in mind PS announces their exclusive games like 2 years in advance, while MS announces games closer to their release. MS needs more first/second parties making games for them as PS is doing. WTF is RARE up to these days?

No, no they don't. Take this year as an example-


Halo Reach- we knew about it last year

Fable 3- we knew about it last year

Crackdown 2- we knew about it last year

Splinter Cell Conviction- we knew about it 4 years ago

Alan Wake- we knew about it when fire was cutting edge tech

Whereas Littlebigplanet 2- Released 6 months after annoucement.

Of course there's GT5, the point is their announcement strategies are just the same. Nintendo are the only ones to routinely announce major games soon before release.



  

Microsoft rarely announces anything early anymore. And don't we ask this question every year?



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CGI-Quality said:

I still doubt All 4 One, Uncharted 3, and Resistance 3 will make it out next year, unless one of them isn't set for the holidays. I think one will be pushed to early 2012 and I'm guessing it'll be Resistance 3, since All 4 One seems further along.


I dunno dude, Uncharted 3 hasn't been announced at all so if any of those three is 2012 I have to assume it's Uncharted 3.



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Didn't they announce that Resistance is going to come out 2011?

I'll try to find the source.



A little, but then I felt 360 was low on exclusives 2010 as well.  Admitedly I have a gaming PC so for me the notorious 'console exclusive' don't count.

I don't think it matters too much right now, though.  MS seem comfortable with the install base in US, UK, etc. and know that the 360 sees equal to superior software sales for multiplatform titles - their focus is clearly going to be Kinect and expanding the base with a smaller number of key titles for the hardcore (if I can use that term) namely a regular Halo title, Gears, Fable, Forza, etc.

With Mass Effect 2 heading to the PS3 due to EA aquisition, plus probably every future Bioware title now, and probably all future (and probably some past ones too) Valve games likely to head to PS3 as well, the number of exclusives heading to 360 is bound to shrink unless MS decides to sink a lot of money into comissioning third party exclusives - which I believe would be of little value to them right now in terms of growing the install base - butI think they'll let the current baseline continue 'as is' and look to add via Kinect and comissioning much less expensive titles for 360/Kinect vs expensive AAA HD titles.

I'll be very suprised if the PS3 doesn't see more exclusives due to its own development focus, and in fact for a while I've felt (excluding as I say the 360/PC titles which I get on PC and don't consider a true exclusive) the 360 has trailed PS3 for a while in the number of potentially promising exclusives - with Alan Wake really the only title of note for me in the last 12 months or more that I've felt interested in.

But like I say, I don't think this will actually harm the 360 at this point, particularly as it will see great sales of most FPS titles in US and will get more than enough multi-platform support to sustain it anyway.



Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...

Theres a few titles i think we dont know about for PS3, they've mentioned something about new IPs recently, which i'm curious about. not to mention tonnes of announcements probabaily.



Rpruett said:

It seems like that's the case almost every year (Although 360 usually has 2 or 3 games to list).   I'm sure the 360 will pickup some games as the year goes on so I wouldn't be worried just yet.

....But this is something that I have felt for several years now will really cripple the 360.  They just don't have enough first party studio's. I've felt for this entire generation they are relying primarily on

(Gears sequel/Halo IP game/ Forza sequel / Fable / Third Party Exclusive). 

This lack of first party studios becomes even more astounding when you think about the Kinect.  They better pray that Kinect garners a ton of third party support, otherwise they are going to have a hard time pushing a concept that's never really been done before and proving that it works and works well.

What happens when what happened to Sony (Losing almost all third party exclusivity) happens to Microsoft?   I mean we're already seeing Bioshock/Mass Effect/Portal/etc big time games jump ship over to Sony.   I think Sony will clearly out produce MS in this regard because they have the ability to pump out several IPs per year with their sheer amount of First Party.

 

I guess to sum it up,  MS is notorious a 'last minute' surprise type of company (Especially this early in the year)  where as Sony announces their games  5 years before they hit the market (See GT5 :P)....So there is some time for MS to announce a beefier lineup, but overall I think we will start to see this more and more and tilt in favor of the PS3.  (Especially if we've seen the last Halo / Gears ) this generation.

heheheheheh yea yea so true man...like Alan wake which was done in 3 months....oh no wait

anywho yea its true..by this time last year we knew of Reach didn't we? and Fable? Splinter cell? Crackdown2? I know MS fans would like to this MS is huge on surprised but E3 is done...GC is done...and we do not know more than 2 games that's for next year....also it's not like Sony doesn't keep surprises either...LBP2 was announced and such this year and they have a huge line up of possible exclusives that can be announced at next E3 too..like UC3

so yeah imho it's not looking too good for 360 fans.....even some of my most hardcore 360 fans are annoyed by this

oh and btw...you missed Forza Kinect..



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