Well at least Japan is getting a PS3 bundle with Castlevania and MGS4.

I be worried with konami until they give me suikoden VI!!! lol

Now that people are saying this i think it would make more sense. someone else said about how Enslaved has not been successful, and that had of it release exclusive like Heavenly Sword, it wouldve done moderately better.

personally i like to use the other example, Demon's Souls, the game has achieved good sales for a new, niche IP, and countless awards and accolades. people are still talking about it, would this had been possible if it wasnt exclusive?? i dont think so, the amount of exposure its had because of being exclusive has been very good publicity for the title imo.

I don't really think so, Demon's Soul is popular because it's a really good game.

The only people that really care about exclusive are the people who browse internet forums all day and we are a very small minority.

Ouch, it took TWO weeks?

um no... because I'll buy Rising, and I won't buy this. so it won't do the same thing >_>

Lost Planet/Bioshock sold well on X360 as an exclusive but the PS3 port didnt have good sales. LP2 wasnt exclusive and there you go, bad sales . Darksiders or Dantes Infeno bombed but im pretty sure that as an exclusive these games would have been more successful.

They shouldn't have slapped the Castlevania name on Lords of Shadow like they did. As a new IP and a more advertised demo, it could have been another Dantes inferno.

As it is now you have people do one of two things:

1. people that don't like castlevania: "Screw that, I don't like castlevania so I ain't buying it"

2. people that like castlevania: "WTF is this SH*T? SELL! SELL! SELL!"

I'm not going to argue either way... But it's not the simple either... there are other factors as well. One was a lot less good games when LP1 came out as well.

Ugh, fail.  Just plain fail.

Bioshock was a good game, that's why it sold.  When it was released on the 360, it was a year old game.  That is why it didn't sell nearly as well as the 360.  I promise you, if it had released on both consoles at the same time, the PS3 version would have higher numbers and there would have been more sales overall.

Lost Planet 2 had bad sales because it was a bad game, it had nothing to do with it not being exclusive.  Lost Planet only did as well as it did because there wasn't much like it at the time.  If it had released today it would do about as well as Lost Planet 2 probably.

Games sell well based on how they're advertised and how good they are.  Darksiders and Dante's Inferno weren't anything special so they sold about as much as expected (by the way, both sold a million so neither of them bombed).  If either of those were on a single console, they would not have nearly as large as a userbase and would have sold worse.  Both of those were third party so Sony or Microsoft would not have done much to advertise them if anything.

This really isn't a hard concept to grasp.