I know, but even just doing short phrases was tiresome... as for the OP he has an interesting way of looking at things.  I agree that it should be looked at, but it is just one side of the strength and weakness of the consoles... alot of poeple like to compare first party titles to show that Sony has stronger in house developers and that is just as one sided an idea as this, but noone goes around complaining that they are not adding in 3rd party exclusives.

MLB Stickball needs to be removed... it's a XBLA game

I understand that, but just because the Japanese aren't buying as much now doesn't mean all of those previous owners are not buying games.

And I would think that overall install base would be important to third party support.

But, being that the thread is about the effect on HW makes Japan a less of a factor. You kinda cripple the country that way.

 Just to be clear. I am not blaming you of bias. I am just saying that the thread will be filled with fanboys and their bias.

@AnarchyWest:

I really tried to accept the titles you put forth. I followed your links, run my own additional queries and tried to find a way to get them accepted. Alas, none of them met the acceptance bar (details below).

I know that this rejection may drive you (and others) to accuse me of a 360 bias. I am pretty sensitive to these allegations because they undermine the work we are trying to do here. So I made an extraordinary effort to find merit in these titles, but they just could not pass the vaporware test or 2009 WW release criteria.

To put this in context, as I mentioned before I am using the data from VGReleases.com as my primary database. It is a huge database, with 2373 titles for the PS3 and X360 listed. However 1097 of the titles lack any NA/Europe release date and therefore are considered vaporware and are rejected from the analysis. A few of your titles are part of this last group. Others did not even register anywhere.

But if any of the other reader thinks I made judgement errors here, I would be happy to hear arguments.

“The Wall is a PS3 console exclusive according to IGN”

Not true. Look at IGN @ http://xbox360.ign.com/objects/142/14225734.html

Yakuza 3 was rejected as “Japan release only”.

Per http://www.vgreleases.com/GameIndex-all.aspx?q=yakuza+3 that states a release date for Japan only. Your link does not state otherwise.

Same story with Demon’s Souls

http://www.vgreleases.com/GameIndex-all.aspx?q=Demons%20Soul

“for Way of the Samurai 3...the first two recieved a NA release date on the PS2 so the third one should also”

This is just conjuncture. We are not in the business of making up data in this thread. Right now there is no date or even just an NA/Europe release confirmation for the title. I did not include hundreds of titles for both platforms that similarly lacked release dates. I don’t see why this one should get an exception.

“RockStar's exclusive ip for the PS3”

No release date, not even a name, Could be a DLC as far as we know. Could be published by Sony. Pure vaporware. Not even close to be included in the list.

“I found Blazblue here”

This is the only place this name shows up. Perhaps there’s a typo? I just could find no evidence for this title anywhere else, including Google. I need something more substantial to consider it.

“X Edge”

No release date on IGN or VGReleases or anywhere else. VGChartz marks it as released in Japan in September 2008. Sold 40K. No confirmation anywhere of a WW release for the title, so right now it is “Japan only” and does not make the list.

“Big Time Revenge”

Pure vaporware. In IGN’s own words in your provided link “New PS3 game in the works, but we don't know squat about it.”. VGRelease which has the most complete list of titles I could find has no mention of it. No release date, no territories confirmed = not making the list.

“Codename: Sengoku 23KU”

Even worst vaporware than the one just above. IGN draws a blank on description and date. All it has is a name. VGReleases has no mention of it. No date, no publisher, no territories. Nothing.

Current list stands on: 

just do month by month, this is just getting out of hand. more than half those 360 titles ive never heard and cant find info on them so post some links or something next to them if possible

Given sales and the 360's ease of development, these results aren't too shocking.

Indeed, I would like to arrange the releases by quarters. This will help us detect trends better. 

As for info - IGN is a great source for title info. Release info is best found in VGReleases. If you have specific ones that you just can't find anything there, let me know.

The results are much more striking that I expected. A-priory I would have assumed that the list of 360 exclusives would be much smaller as a PS3 port expand the addressable market by 60%. So as long as the port costs less than 60% of the initial development cost then it would make sense to go multi-plat across the board.

But apparently this logic does not work for small developers. For the smaller developers it is much simpler and faster to develop for the 360 architecture natively. The architecture is very much a PC architecture and it is easy to find developers familiar with it. The development tools are world class (Visual Studio is top notch). The final quality is higher and the testing is easier with a single platform. No compromises are needed when there is only one target platform.

The cost of porting apparently is much more significant than us in the forums can appreciate. The architectures are so different between the platforms (3 cores vs 7 sp, 512MB vs 256MB RAM etc) that the port process is risky and fraught with problems.

We also have to remember that when the development is completed on the leading platform (mostly the 360), the studio is often suffering from  cash liquidity problems as they have been burning the money for years on the initial development without seeing any income from the title. The studio needs money urgently. Management want to release here and now and start seeing the sales dollars. A port at this point is another substantial expense, significant added risk and a delay of the revenue stream.

So I guess this is why you are seeing many more 3rd party exclusives than we have suspected at the initial process.