Got interested in this today, so taking directly from VGChartz.com and gamerankings.com (easier to get individual scores quickly) I did a little 1st party exclusive games comparison below....
Microsoft
Game | Weeks | Total Sales | Genre | IP | gamrankings |
Halo 3 | 84 | 9,590,441 | Shooter | Sequel | 93.33% |
Gears Of War | 130 | 5,859,135 | Shooter | New | 94.01% |
Gears Of War 2 | 26 | 4,848,188 | Shooter | Sequel | 93.18% |
Forza Motorsport 2 | 102 | 3,963,442 | Race | Sequel | 89.74% |
Fable II | 28 | 2,729,017 | RPG | Sequel | 88.38% |
Mass Effect | 76 | 2,033,122 | RPG | New | 91.11% |
Project Gotham Racing 4 | 83 | 1,680,268 | Race | Sequel | 86.28% |
Viva Pinata | 130 | 1,450,094 | Sim | New | 85.47% |
Halo Wars | 10 | 1,173,424 | RTS | Sequel | 81.78% |
Crackdown | 115 | 1,050,310 | Sandbox | New | 83.26% |
Lost Odyssey | 74 | 788,409 | RPG | New | 79.09% |
Perfect Dark Zero | 180 | 742,738 | Shooter | Sequel | 81.29% |
Project Gotham Racing 3 | 180 | 603,358 | Race | Sequel | 88.66% |
Too Human | 37 | 572,671 | RPG | New | 68.50% |
Scene It? Lights Camera Action | 78 | 519,415 | Trivia | New | 73.30% |
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts | 25 | 512,503 | Platform | Sequel | 80.56% |
Blue Dragon | 126 | 459,404 | RPG | New | 77.09% |
Scene It? Box Office Smash | 27 | 427,701 | Trivia | Sequel | 76.48% |
Lips | 24 | 411,572 | Sing | New | 71.82% |
Shadowrun | 101 | 382,461 | Multi | Sequel | 70.02% |
Kameo: Elements of Power | 180 | 328,150 | Other | New | 80.85% |
Tenchu Z | 118 | 321,694 | Ninja | Sequel | 56.65% |
Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise | 35 | 287,661 | Sim | Sequel | 82.25% |
Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom | 73 | 286,714 | RPG | Sequel | 56.11% |
Ninety-Nine Nights | 159 | 273,359 | Button | New | 63.21% |
Viva Pinata: Party Animals | 79 | 161,727 | Mini | Sequel | 58.40% |
Fuzion Frenzy 2 | 118 | 142,657 | Mini | Sequel | 51.57% |
Ninja Blade | 14 | 109,683 | Ninja | New | 68.29% |
Project Sylpheed | 113 | 71,545 | Space | Sequel | 65.64% |
Sony
Game | Weeks | Total Sales | Genre | IP | gamerankings |
Resistance: Fall of Man | 130 | 3,585,309 | Shooter | New | 86.76% |
Motorstorm | 125 | 3,456,178 | Race | New | 82.80% |
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue | 73 | 3,019,325 | Race | Sequel | 79.88% |
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune | 77 | 2,335,229 | Shooter | New | 89.62% |
LittleBigPlanet | 28 | 2,207,222 | Platform | New | 94.35% |
Resistance 2 | 26 | 1,593,432 | Shooter | Sequel | 86.94% |
Killzone 2 | 10 | 1,545,925 | Shooter | Sequel | 90.40% |
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction | 80 | 1,470,797 | Platform | Sequel | 88.82% |
Heavenly Sword | 86 | 1,355,443 | Ninja | New | 80.51% |
SingStar PS3 | 74 | 829,487 | Sing | Sequel | 82.79% |
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation | 29 | 812,738 | Multi | Sequel | 66.29% |
Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds | 93 | 699,205 | Sports | Sequel | 81.68% |
Buzz! Quiz TV | 44 | 692,973 | Trivia | Sequel | 81.37% |
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift | 27 | 642,761 | Race | Sequel | 82.27% |
MLB 08: The Show | 61 | 634,259 | Sports | Sequel | 86.35% |
SingStar Abba | 25 | 578,670 | Sing | Sequel | 74.26% |
Warhawk | 88 | 357,846 | Multi | New | 84.21% |
MLB 09: The Show | 9 | 356,384 | Sports | Sequel | 89.80% |
White Knight Chronicles | 19 | 345,188 | RPG | Sequel | 80.00% |
Lair | 88 | 334,170 | Other | New | 57.01% |
Eye of Judgement | 80 | 275,365 | Strategy | New | 75.67% |
MLB 07: The Show | 103 | 262,444 | Sports | Sequel | 78.07% |
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty | 33 | 255,988 | Platform | Sequel | 78.26% |
NBA 07 | 129 | 200,458 | Sports | Sequel | 65.35% |
Folklore | 98 | 181,880 | RPG | New | 76.07% |
Genji 2: Days of the Blade | 130 | 178,080 | Ninja | Sequel | 57.54% |
Formula One: Championship Edition | 114 | 169,794 | Race | Sequel | 76.12% |
SingStar Vol. 2 | 27 | 164,743 | Sing | Sequel | 78.25% |
Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom | 129 | 119,105 | RPG | New | 58.83% |
Demon's Soul | 13 | 118,752 | RPG | New | 87.00% |
NBA 08 | 83 | 77,363 | Sports | Sequel | 66.24% |
NBA 09: The Inside | 30 | 41,256 | Sports | Sequel | 64.06% |
SingStar Queen | 7 | 35,205 | Sing | Sequel | 76.56% |
SingStar Pop | 1 | 12,772 | Sing | Sequel | 78.25% |
Comparison
Compare Item | Microsoft | Sony | Difference | |
Other Games | 5 | 2 | MS +3 | |
Sports | - | 7 | Sony +7 | |
Racing | 3 | 4 | Sony +1 | |
Singing | 1 | 5 | Sony +4 | |
Trivia | 2 | 1 | MS +1 | |
Shooters | 4 | 4 | Even | |
Platformers | 1 | 3 | Sony +2 | |
RPGs | 6 | 4 | MS +2 | |
Online | 1 | 2 | Sony +1 | |
Ninja Action | 2 | 2 | Even | |
Mini-Games | 2 | - | MS +2 | |
Simulations | 2 | - | MS +2 | |
Total Games | 29 | 34 | Sony +5 | |
IP Sequels | 17 | 24 | Sony +7 | |
New Ips | 12 | 10 | MS +2 | |
Sales Weeks | 2,525 | 2,169 | MS +356 | |
Avg. Sales / Week | 16,547 | 13,345 | MS +3,202 | |
Avg. Gameranking.com | 77.11% | 78.31% | Sony 1.20% | |
Microsoft's Ninja Gaiden II and Vampire Rain not Counted as both are appearing on PS3 | ||||
VGChartz has You're In the Movies as a Microsoft 1st Party game… | ||||
Microsoft's XBOX.COM web site lists it as Codemasters only. |
After all is said and done there are differences but not as much as fanboys sell them to be when you don't sit there and weed everything out.