http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/950/950702p1.html

Interesting indeed

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yeah, you must of missed the "mass effect going multiplat in Q4 2009" announcement from yesterday. we've had mass discussion on what exactly "multiplat" means already.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=59277&page=1

If M$ owns the IP then muliplat definitely means PC and 360 only

MS doesn't own the IP but there was some kind of money exchange between MS/Bioware.  Now, no one but MS and EA know what the contract entails in terms of the franchise.  As such we are feel to speculate at the fate of ME2/3 and the possiblilty of a ps3 version until EA either confirms/denies the speculation.  so far they haven't.

The 360's 2009 lineup just seems to keep crumbling. With the potential loss of Mass Effect, I'm begining to wonder if 360 will lose marketshare to the PS3 without any system selling exclusives.

Seihyouken - Exactly what kind of major Playstation 3 exclusives have exact target dates in 2009 that are going to erode Microsoft's marketshare?

Not surprising. If it came out this year, it'd be directly competing with Dragon Age: Origins. No sense in that.

Too many other games this year anyway. Mass Effect 2 + Final Fantasy XIII = a good 2010, IMO!

Well if you want to put it that way, then Uncharted 2, Ratchet & Clank Future 2, M.A.G., and Final Fantasy XIII in Japan (All confirmed for 2009) are bigger system sellers than anything Microsoft has coming for the 360 this year so far and that's if you exclude Gran Turismo 5 and God of War III which are both still currently targeted for late 2009 releases. Of course, none of these game have "exact" targets, but really, none of the 360's upcoming releases past April have exact targets either.

I mean, what exactly is going to move a significant amount of 360's this year? Halo 3: ODST and Halo Wars won't, because Halo 3 has already effectively saturated the market for the Halo franchise. Ninety-Nine Nights II, Lips 2, Naruto 3, Scene It? 3, and Blue Dragon 2 are all sequels to games already released on 360 on top of the fact that they are relatively smaller releases. Forza Motorsport 3 could move a nice amount of consoles, but for one it's another sequel to a game that has saturated the 360 market and secondly, it doesn't even have a release date. There's always the possibility that Ninja Blade or Alan Wake (particularly the latter) could be runaway hits like Mass Effect, however the same could easily be said about any new IP including White Knight Chronicles, Demon's Souls, Quantum Theory, Heavy Rain, EyePet, Free Realms and other new exclusive franchises on "target" to come to PS3 this year.

As things currently stand, Microsoft's greatest system sellers this year are Star Ocean 4 and Splinter Cell Conviction. The former of which is very borderline of being substantial and the latter being a simultanious PC release that, unsurprisingly, doesn't have an "exact" release date.

Which of said games actually have a release date? You gave no release date other than '2009'. I can do the same with a ton of Xbox 360 games, too.

And for the record, Halo 3 ODST will easily outsell all of your listed exclusives. So I fail to see how they'd win marketshare when 1 Xbox 360 game may outsell most of them combined.

I don't understand your argument about what X360 games will move hardware - as you aruge they're all sequels - but you just listed a bunch of PS3 sequels too (save MAG).

Your argument won't get anywhere until we have the full list of games that launch worldwide in 2009 for both systems. Until then, you are just speculating. And given how often Playstation 3 games get delayed, I tend to think it's not a great argument till the release dates get confirmed.