As many of you may already know. Microsoft has not being doing too well recently as far as giving its core audience exclusives games to play on their Xbox-360. I know they are still trying to get casuals with the Kinect, But it does not look like they are doing as well as they had hoped with the whole Kinect tech promoting theory.
That being said 2012 is not looking too bright for Microsoft. With Japan beginning the stages of phasing out the 360 in most of its retail shops and with Microsoft being the only 1 out of the big 3 to not give its console a price drop yet.
I also just got done doing some research and I found a rather startling discovery. Excluding the Kinect games, Halo 4 is the only announced exclusive for the 360 in 2012.
I know it’s still too early to say it will be the only exclusive for the 360 in 2012, but I don’t think we will see much next year. Forza and Gears both come out this year so we will almost certainly not see a sequel for them next year. The next fable game was confirmed to only be playable on Kinect.
Only two franchises I can think of that may get another sequel is Alan-Wake and Crackdown 2. But after looking out there sales I doubt we will see a sequel to those either.
So the question at hand is, Is this drought of exclusives going to get worse for the 360 when next year starts?? Or will MS suprise us with something big up their sleeve for their gamers..
