PS Store vs XBLA: Side by Side: XBLA wins by a landslide

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think-man on 17 December 2012

Theres alot of games missing from the psn list :/

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Jaywood2010 on 17 December 2012

Jay520 said:
Title should be "Top 20 games from XBL vs Top 20 games from PSN".

20 games do not represent an entire library.

You're the blame on the new list, but are you happy now. Now their will be a ton of complaining and I havent even added up the exclusives yet which about 70% of them are.

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Jaywood2010 on 17 December 2012

think-man said:
Theres alot of games missing from the psn list :/

Just let me know what games Ive missed and I'll add them. I'm trying my best to make it accurate but a little help from both sides would be helpful.

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Jaywood2010 on 17 December 2012

Updated: XBLA dominated the PS store

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Jaywood2010 on 17 December 2012

kitler53 said:

JayWood2010 said:

JoeTheBro said:

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gergroy said:
This seems like a very arbitrary list.

Also, not sure why half of the psn list is games that are on both. If you list it one one, why not the other?

I went by metacritic scores. A lot of games are rated lower than the XBLA version because of a later release date.

Well there's your problem. To today's consumer it doesn't matter that a game was a timed exclusive. Also multiplat games should include their price on both systems since one console may be cheaper. If you want to say one service is better, you need to look at value. Otherwise just make a top 20 list of exclusives only.

It kind of does matter because then by the time it hit the other platform most people already bought it. It becomes almost irrelevant on the next system if exclusive long enough. It gives them a big advantage.

wtf is your angle? sales potential? availiblility of good games? value? e-peen?

your OP has no direction at all. you say you want to compare the two but you artifically cut both at 20 games each? how is that suppose to provide any comparision let alone a fair one. you artifically make them look equal.

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the2real4mafol on 17 December 2012

Xbox live had a good head start in the digital revolution. PS store didn't really start up properly until about 2008, with many games only coming in on a regular basis in late 2009/ early 2010. Xbox live had tons of games on it's store by then.

@OP You should have said you were discussing the games available on each, i though you were comparing every thing

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Jaywood2010 on 17 December 2012

the2real4mafol said:
Xbox live had a good head start in the digital revolution. PS store didn't really start up properly until about 2008, with many games only coming in on a regular basis in late 2009/ early 2010. Xbox live had tons of games on it's store by then.

@OP You should have said you were discussing the games available on each, i though you were comparing every thing

What do you mean?

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fauzman on 17 December 2012

I tend to agree with some of the others. Your list is pretty good but I would have preferred to see games listed by their exclusivity or the entire list of games available. As some have said XBLA has been around longer and has many more games. I would say that in the last few years some of the ps store games have generated more hype and attention than XBLA games (even though they havent necessarily done as well in sales.