Lol PS3 owners are so lucky that many of 360's exclusives are timed. I hope PS3 3rd party games go multiplatform. Specifically FFXII Versus. I mean FFXIII went multiplatform almost last minute, there is hope.

Very few games announced to be exclusive end up on 360 and never after launch (except for one that added cross dash or something to the end of it's name and sold poorly on both), FFXIII is pretty much the only one I can think of, alot of games that were assumed exclusives because of the series but ended up getting paid off by MS or just going with the flow either way, but yeah MS seems to be putting its money into buying timed exclusives rather then making it, and I feel really bad for anyone that bought their system for those games, I mean Sony was forced to make exclusives and they get the timed good ones so I pretty much got the best of both worlds at this point 

Well a lot of 3rd party exclusives never make their way over to the PS3. I think this whole timed exclusive thing was only big in the past, before PS3 built up sales. Bioshock, The Elder Scrolls, Lost Planet, all were probably only timed because PS3 was either unreleased, brand spanking new, or developers were just unsure about the success of it.

A few timed exclusives are bought, GTA IV expansions, Star Ocean, Tom Clancy's HAWKS by a week, and um... thats all I can think of.

Mass Effect 2 went multiplatform because of people writing letters and complaining that they want it on their PS3.

Games like FFXIII were not assumed to be exclusive, they were announced as exclusives, but when Square Enix saw how popular the 360 was in Americas, they thought it may have benefited them sales-wise to make their game multi-platform. At first they thought sales in Japan would just be nothing, but now after it sold so well in Americas and EMEAA they are releasing it in Japan this fall on the 360.

It makes no sence for 3rd party developers to make exclusives. Mechanically the 360 and PS3 are very similar, it's not hard making a multi-platform game, and saling a game on multiple consoles just make so much more sence financially.

Gears of War and Mass Effect are 2 of my favorite exclusives this generation, and except for Mass Effect 2 which is getting a port in 6 months, these games are definatly great reasons why I got my 360. Mass Effect 2 will just not be as good when decisions made in MAss Effect 1 don't transfer over. That and no DLC, make it definatly worth owning a 360 for the game. LEft 4 Dead is also fun.

I was just saying PS3 owners are lucky that many 360 exclusives are only timed. It would have sucked if PS3 owners never got Bioshock. I just hope FFXIII Versus is multiplatform, I see no reason why SE would just ignore the huge 360 RPG market. The Agent too, I can only hope.

Eternal sonata, splinter cell conviction oh wait that one hasn't been announced for ps3 yet, anyways there are a few more, but yeah some never made it for various reason (dead rising and saints row being the obvious ones, both with sequels coming to the ps3) 

Mass Effect 2 was multiplat the second EA bought bioware in my mind anyways, thats what it was about

FFXIII was announced but games like resident evil and devil may cry were assumed 

actually they are very different, the most different of any generation, the actual hardware of the ps3 is the cell which is great from a processing stand point but since the tech was never used for the application it took a bit to get the dev tools to a comparable level to 360s (whos tech has been around and been being refined since ps1) and multiplat tools are even worse and then theres blu ray, so ps3 can hold alot more on one disk, and multiple disks are a pain for devs, 

yes but if both gears and mass effect (whole series for both) ended up on ps3 you would feel very cheated I think 

I don't think FFXIII versus will be multiplat, it's not so much a administrative decision as it is how much of the ps3 power they tapped into in the gameplay, FFXIII was a turn based rpg (more or less) gameplay wasn't that taxing so they just had to lower the graphics for it all and throw it on 3 disk, and if they took advantage of the sixaxis at all that presents an entire new problem, so yeah depends how the devs made it, I'm good at spoting timed exclusives and I doubt versus is going to be timed/multiplat, though you will probably be getting FFXIV as long as MS lets them (MMO problems, they intended for it to be both, but with the live subscription and MS polices or whatever there has been issues) 

Its exclusively NOT coming to PS3.

Wrong it's not coming to wii either or ps2 or any other system besides PC And 360

Ohhhhh, you got me!

Okay, its exclusively not on the other HD console.

Perhaps, exclusively for MS products.

Or ofcourse... console exclusive.

Anyway you slice it, people won't be playing it on PS3 unless it gets a late release.

• Tekken 6
• Quantom Theory 
• LA Noire
• Assassin's Creed
• Final Fantasy

Ah post like this one makes it obvious how some people are trying to forget how small Xbox and how big PS2 was. When I bought a Xbox 360 in 2005 I never expected to play games like Final Fantasy. I bought the console because of Live, Halo and Fable. MS announced Resident Evil, GTA, Final Fantasy and Tekken to be on the Xbox 360 some time later.

And no, MS did not pay them to be on the Xbox 360. As a publisher / developer it would be just stupid to focus on the console with the smallest userbase. You can't create a 20 mio USD game and just ignore a 45 million userbase. Publishers / developers WANT to have their games on the Xbox 360. Just like they want to have it on PS3. It is that simple. This shows how big the Xbox 360 has become and how the PS3 declined. With a market share like last gen, we wouldn't even talk about it. Hell, there wouldn't be something like VGC, because sales would have been as boring as hell.

MS might have paid for GTA IV DLC, true. But so did Sony for MoH / Dead Space Limited Editions. Somehow MS is always moneyhatting something and Sony gets 3rd party exclusive stuff "because they have such a good relationship". Fanboy logic amazes me.

lol you can't even say you will never be able to play it on ps3 with confidence lol

I don't think MS paid for all of them but I know MS paid for some of them to be ported and if you don't think so you are just naive, and almost all the timed exclusives (they wouldn't be exactly 1 year later every time if they didn't would of been simultaneous release) as for MS getting a lot bigger in the gaming industry yes they have but what have they brought to it, paying for online, acheivements/trophies(fun but not major), the worst failrate in a system ever, companies are going to put less into making quality machines from now on, nickel and dime point system for online purchases, timed exclusive after timed exclusive(ie paying a dev to keep me from playing a game for a year) and as far as games go, crackdown and gears of war and the only good ones and crackdown probably still would of existed, so I don't know what your so proud about MS has done alot bad and hasn't even come out with it's own games, thinking about it makes me kinda sad actually