Crackdown could still be saved.  The second game was bad - a rushed cash grab that MS forced so that they could have another exclusive.  But that franchise has potential if given time and resources to really innovate.  (And Crackdown 2 still sold nearly a million units, despite horrible reviews.)  They'd have their work cut out for them after the bad taste left by C2, but there's an audience there for a quality game.  Hell - I just sold my used copy for $17 on Glyde, which is actually pretty decent for how old/not great that game was.  

First off a lot of people don't even care about Halo. I bought a 360 long before I even started playing it. 

Secondly the first Alan Wake took so long because not only did they develop the game. But they also made their own engine from scratch. And they also scrapped a whole lot of progress when they took it from being open world to being linear. If they had a team of 60 and used the same engine they could easily crank out another Alan Wake in a year or two. 

I don't get the hate for that game. It seemed a lot more fun than the first one. There was a little more variety than. Find bad guy, kill bad guy... :P 

you say:

"People shouldn't over praise exclusives like they're the only games worth playing. Most of the games I play are multi except for the Kinect ones, Halo and Forza, I don't see what the competition can do better if I'm going to play the same games."

this makes no sense. if they make a lot exclusives which you wish to play, you have to buy the console. that's what the competition can do better.

you like kinect? aren't the games exclusives? do you think microsoft would have kinect and games like kinect sports if sony wouldn't be there with own exclusive stuff?

sure you can have the same fun with a game if it isn't an exclusive but without god of war and uncharted i wouldn't own a ps3. so the competition made better third person games so i had to buy a ps3 even with a xbox from day one.

if you don't like to play these games it's ok but to say that the ps3  could have thousand exclusives all better than the best xbox game which would be all on the playstation as well and you would still buy the 360 makes no sense. but you don't need the ps3 then right? because if the games wouldn't be excluisves they would have the same quality.

exclusives are exclusives it doesn't help you that the games would have the same quality as non exclusives. btw the quality isn't the same. uncharted 3 would never look as good as it does as non exclusive. so i would be happy that it is an exlusive ps3 game if i wouldn't hate the ps3 controller so much.

and at least since exclusives are competition for non exclusives as well all developers will make better games as they would without exclusives.

without halo for example we would maybe still have not the healt sytem every game uses nowadays and this was a revolution. without halo we would have  medipacks everywhere lol.

if someone makes a racing game he has forza and gt as competition. there wouldn't be a forza for 360 without gt. so if there wouldn't be forza an gt maybe other racing games like shift would be worse than they are.

exclusives are the best the industry has. everyone if profiting of that. the quality would be not even close to the quality we have without the exclusive games (which counts for non exclusives as well)

Exactly what proof do you have? Please don't tell me they said they were working on 'nex gen games'

As for the Remedy comment, what dsister said.

Those studios are most likely deveoping Kinect & Xbox 3 titles. The Xbox 360 doesn't need many more core exclusives to ensure success. It only needs maybe two or three big core exclusives during the holidays and it'll continue it's current path. I guess if Microsoft was concerned with having stronger sales pre-holidays, then more exclusives would be necessary to have a slightly more fruitfull first half of the year, but I doubt Microsoft cares about that small discrepancy enough to alter their current strategy which seems to involve bearing through the first half of the year with relatively low sales and, later, bombarding the 360 with Kinect, multiplats, and a few core exclusives, which seems to be working well for them.

Yes absolutely and I mention that I said without using existing resources. Most big budget games and high quality AAA titles use their own engines, when they don't use their own engines they spend a fortune of time and money adapting the engines for their specific projects. Also judging by Remedy's other games it always takes them at least three years between big games. More then three between Death Rally and Max Payne and two before Alan Wake was even announced so chances are it was in development even more then five years. Also scrapping content happens in every games development process, it would happen with a team fo sixty as well.

Not to mention Remedy has proven you wrong their sequel to Alan Wake is not yet on the market and it has been nearly two years since the last one was released. Not to mention we don't know if the game is of the same caliber either, judging by the fact that it is a digital release and not a physical leads to a lot of questions about whether it is indeed a big budget full fledged Alan Wake experiance or a rushed sequel.

Look at how much the game changed though. They probably spent way too much time going towards the openworldness. And being such a small developer it took way too long for them to rebound.

About the sequel. How am I proven wrong? 40-60 is an increase of 50% so if they stick with than we have to move the timelimit up to 3 years. You also have to look at the fact that they were making DLC for awhile. Also they have an announcement set for Dec 10 of this year for their newest game. 

Edit: And they still have 6 more months till Alan Wake's 2 year birthday. 

I can't put together a coherent argument this late T_T

Edit 2: Seece's post is so much better 

You really do like to twist things to your way of thinking don't you? They changed direction completely, from an openworld sandbox game to what it came out as. With the engine already built and the direction already planned out for them, they could easily get one out in 3 years (This May it'll be 2 years since AW, so no, you're not proving anything) Most BB franchises take about 3 years these days, and that's without doing a game inbetween as they are.

The XBLA game in't going to be small, as already stated by Geoff "downloadable game does not equal small experience"

Sure they dont have the games yet but they are on the right way to pump them. I fail to see how this could be spin into something negative. Thats what most fans of other systems were asking from the start, stop purchasing exclusivity and make your damn games Microsoft. Keep it up, we want more studios.