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ZenfoldorVGI said:
windbane said:
 

First of all, what does NIntendo have planned for late this year? I'd really like to know. Gears of War is the only game that has sold more than Resistance, I believe. Motorstorm and Socom are also million sellers. Those and Killzone are as much AAA potential as Ninja Gaiden and Banjo. As for being more varied...I find this funny, and again, this is not a complete list anyway, but Microsoft has no answer for Little Big Planet. No answer for Motorstorm this year. No sports games. Perhaps another Scene It game to compete with the superior Buzz and the controller Microsoft copied? Who knows. They have no answer for Singstar, either. Microsoft has done a good job at finding third party games to publish to make their lineup more diverse (Too Human and Ninja Gaiden, genres that generally perform better on Sony consoles), but those are just 3rd-person action titles. Force Unleashed and many other multiplatform titles take care of those genres already (Devil May Cry). I can just as easily say Motorstorm 2 makes Sony's lineup more diverse even though third parties release a lot of racing games. Also, God of War 3 might be early 2009 as well.


Nintendo doesn't plan what it's 3rd party game developers do. Since you brought it up, we'll likely see Fatal Frame 4, Icarus, Tales of Symphonia 2, Fragile, Deadly Creatures, and Disaster as exclusives, with many others(like the new clover studios game).

However, many great Nintendo games already came out this year, not so for Sony. No More Heroes, Brawl, Kart, Wii Fit. This doesn't include multiplats like Rock Band, GHIV, CoD5, and Ghostbusters.

 

Thinking the Wii has no lineup is simply a matter of not know what you're talking about, wouldn't you agree?

 

As for Microsoft's 3rd party games getting "replaced" by DMC?

 

It's a perfect way to marginalize Ninja Gaiden 2, which will be better than DMC 4 by a huge margin, most likely.

Ninja Gaiden 2
Too Human
Fable 2
Gears 2
Alan Wake(sure it's 09, but this topic is late 08, early 09, btw)

..and games like Tales of Vespira that will probably be timed or permanent exclusive as well.

 

You act like Haze or Killzone 2 are games with a lot of hype around then. Only in the Sony world, I imagine, because jeez, I wouldn't trade a game on that MS list for Haze or KZ2, ever.

Resistance is a different story, it actually has a pedigree to be decent or even great, so I concede that Resistance could be on the list with those exclusives.

However, I don't see how the 08 PS3 lineup blows anything away, considering it's actually worse or equal to the 360 list in my eyes when you add in multiplats like GB, TLR, and others.

 

The fact is, those lists are relative balanced, and MGS4 is the best game on either list, but it doesn't make the Sony list automatically better. To me, the sony list is worse, and neither list is awe inspiring.


Sorry, but most of your response has nothing to do with what I said. Tell me what Nintendo Published games are coming out later this year. That's what I asked. I'm quite aware of the big games already out. I own 2 of them and beat NMH. Oh, NMH. Did Nintendo even publish that? You group it with Brawl, Kart, and Fit. You then start naming third party games. I could do that, too, but this particular comparison was about first party published games. Clover is also making an HD game. Big deal. "This doesn't include multiplats like Rock Band, GHIV, CoD5, and Ghostbusters." Yeah, it sure doesn't. Those are all third party games that will be superior on Ps3 and 360. Rock Band already is. GHIV probably won't have the youtube-like sharing for fan-made songs (due to lack of hard drive as stated in the Game Informer issue I just got). CoD5 might have better control on Wii but I wouldn't expect the rest of the game to be the same quality as the HD versions. Same with Ghostbusters, We shall see. That was all off-topic anyway. I've never said the Wii "has no lineup." So yes, I would agree that saying so is foolish. It's the worst lineup of the 3, imo, but I wouldn't own Warioware, Brawl, and Kart if I thought it have no lineup. I'm excited by Bloom Blox which just came in the mail from gamefly. Ah, 360. Throwing in Alan Wake, now? Ok...Heavy Rain. We're even. Seriously...God of War 3 I already mentioned as an answer to Ninja Gaiden 2. But let's not start naming every 2009 game. Sony wins that, too, from what we know so far. I have said before that Nintendo and Microsoft could easily announce more stuff at E3, but from what we know now the 2nd half of the year belongs to Sony more than the other 2 when you look at game lineups. You are comparing Sony's first party lineup to all of the 360's lineup. That's hardly fair. I don't know why people keep doing that. Look at the exclusives post. At least we agree Resistance and MGS4 should be great games.



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bbsin said:
Imperial said:
bbsin said:
Imperial said:
I think the '08 line up is pretty strong for the PS3 , probably more superior than the XBOX 360's 2010 software releases.

Then what about the PS3's 2010 releases? on par with the 360's 2010's?


 

Assuming the line up improves year on year i'm guessing it'll equivelent to the entire XBOX 360 games libary.


 Lol I was acting a bit weird yesterday , being a fanboy helps me relieve stress.



windbane:
"God of War 3 I already mentioned as an answer to Ninja Gaiden 2"

First. God of War 3 is not coming untill 2009, so keep focus on 2008! OK?
Second. You don't know what MS is cooking for 2009. When GT 5 came out in 2009 is this going to be PS3 answer for PGR 4. Or will be for Forza 2? Or may be it will be PS3 answer for Forza 3?

windbane:
"You are comparing Sony's first party lineup to all of the 360's lineup. That's hardly fair. I don't know why people keep doing that. Look at the exclusives post."

This is not all of 360 lineup. This are only games with MS as a publisher. For the full "360 console exclusive" games list you need to check here:
http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=19165

Anyway, competition is good and will force all companies to make better games.