Battle of the launch line-ups!! 360 vs Wii vs PS3

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Doobie_wop on 07 October 2010

Xbox 360

Amped 3 (2K Sports)   Good
Call of Duty 2 (Activision Inc.) Not bad
Condemned: Criminal Origins (SEGA Corp.)    Great
FIFA Soccer 06 Road to 2006 FIFA World Cup (Electronic Arts Inc.) Umm
GUN (Activision) Good
Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios and Rare Ltd.) It's OK
Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts)    I live in Australia
NBA 2K6 (2K Sports)
NBA LIVE 06 (Electronic Arts)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (Electronic Arts) Uhhh
NHL 2K6 (2K Sports)
Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game Studios and Rare Ltd.)   It's not as bad as some people make it out to be.
Peter Jackson s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (Ubisoft)    Crap
Project Gotham Racing 3 (Microsoft Game Studios and Bizarre Creations Ltd.) Not bad
Quake 4 (id Software and Activision)
Ridge Racer 6 (Namco Ltd.) PGR3 is better
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06 (Electronic Arts)
Tony Hawk s American Wasteland (Activision)   SK8TER 4 LIFE!

PS3

Resistance: Fall of Man - Sony Great

NBA 07 - Sony

Genji: Days of the Blade - Sony Not bad

Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII - Ubisoft

Call of Duty 3 - Activision

EA Sports Fight Night Round 3 - Electronic Arts    Better than Fight Night 4

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Bethesda Softworks The greatest RPG to ever be developed

F.E.A.R. - Vivendi Universal Games    It's just sooo good.

Full Auto 2: Battlelines - Sega   Meh

Madden NFL 07 - Electronic Arts -

MARVEL: ULTIMATE ALLIANCE - Activision It's OK

Motorstorm - Sony It's good, but the lack of co-op made it off putting

Mobile Suit Gundam: CROSSFIRE - NAMCO BANDAI Games

NBA 2K7 - 2K Sports

Need For Speed Carbon - Electronic Arts

NHL 2K7 - 2K Sports

RIDGE RACER 7 - NAMCO BANDAI Games   The music is alright, that's all it has going for it.

Sonic the Hedgehog - Sega   Furry love

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - Electronic Arts

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - Ubisoft    Pretty good

Tony Hawk’s Project 8 - Activision

Untold Legends Dark Kingdom - Sony Online Entertainment It's exactly like the PSP game, which shouldn't be happening if it's on a PS3.

Wii

Avatar: The Last Airbender   ARGHH!

Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII

Blitz: The League

Call of Duty 3

Cars

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 It was better on the PS2, not really.

Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors   It looks really good.

Elebits

Excite Truck

Far Cry

GT Pro Series

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess   Gamecube game =/

Madden NFL 07

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

Metal Slug Anthology

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Monster 4x4 World Circuit

Need for Speed: Carbon

Open Season

Rayman Raving Rabbids Pretty Damn awesome

Red Steel Great concept, bad controls

SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz

Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam

Trauma Center: Second Opinion

Wii Sports     It was fun when it launched

So that's the launch line ups for the three current generation consoles.

The 360 is at a disadvantage because it released a year earlier, but it still had Condemned, Kameo, Perfect Dark: Zero, PGR3 and Amperd 3, which are all good games and it's fair to point out that development on the 360 went wild not long after.

PS3 fans are lucky that they got a lot of 360 ports right off the bat like Oblivion, F.E.A.R., Rainbow Six Vegas and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Sony also brought a few of their first-party games to the table with Resistance, Motorstorm, Untold Legends and Genji: Days of the Blade. It also helped that the two best launch games had been heavily bundled with the console (Resistance and Motorstorm).

The Wii had a mixed launch, when I looked at the list, I was surprised by the amount of movie shovelware games. I'd also argue that the Wii had a really good launch with titles such as Red Steel, Wii Sports, Final Fantasy: Crystal Bearers, Trauma Center, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime: Corruption and Dragon Quest.

So, in my opinion the Wii comes first, the PS3 comes second and the 360 comes last. Though a year after their launches, I'd probably put it as the 360/PS3/Wii only because Gears and a heap of third party titles released for the 360, the PS3 got Heavenly Sword, Uncharted and Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction, while I only remember playing Mario Galaxy and kinda playing Brawl for the Wii and not getting into them.

Who do you think had the best launch line-ups? Throw in a few more console launch battles if you want.

Note: The launch lists came from three different sites, so forgive me if something's wrong.

Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.

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SecondWar on 07 October 2010

Doobie_wop said:

Madden NFL 06 (Electronic Arts) I live in Australia

I laughed that thats all you said about, yet thats all that needed to be said. lol

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MrT-Tar on 07 October 2010

some of the games you mentioned were not launch games: For example MP3 was launched in October 2007 I think, FF Crystal Bearers was earlier this year and Excitetruck was February 2007 I'm sure.

I'm going by European release dates btw.

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Doobie_wop on 07 October 2010

MrT-Tar said:

some of the games you mentioned were not launch games: For example MP3 was launched in October 2007 I think, FF Crystal Bearers was earlier this year and Excitetruck was February 2007 I'm sure.

I'm going by European release dates btw.

Yeah, I thought some of them may be messed up. I took the lists from other sites, the Wii one was actually from a press release on a Nintendo fan site, so I'm not sure if it's Japan, US or European dates.

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Mr Puggsly on 07 October 2010

I don't think anyone will deny the 360 had a weak launch. A few good games though.

PS3 looks better, but many of those games were multiplat.

Wii was abysmal in my opinion.

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