LoL, keep dreamin Xbot, MGS4 will come to the 360 when Kojima is dead.


3rd Party exclusivity - Here's my take. Alive or dead, I don't need it. Any mult-plat title, or '360 exclusive' comes to PC. My PC, stomps the dogmeat out of the PS3, and the 360. But, I purchased a PS3, because, simply put, PS3 first party titles, never hit the PC. Whereas, every 360 exclusive does...and Windows Live = Free, and it's the exact same experience as XBLA. So, point being, gaming companies never really put forth the effort on the PS3, unless they're Kojima, or internal devs for Sony. Why should I, as a gamer, buy their crap? Not going to do it. In fact, I'll do just the opposite, I'll wait until it comes out for PC, download that, and play the whole thing, with better hardware scaling, better performance, for free. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Morne

Strange it took so long for you to realise this. PS3 has suffered due to lack of games, but reliance on such exclsuives is only necessary, IMO, at launch, and maybe the first year.

I do feel, we aren't bothered by the multiformat nature of many games, whereas in past generations there was more focus on exclusives.

I disagree, PS3 has suffered from a 'perceived' lack of games. That's merely a fault of gamers, the media, and PR campaigns from other companies to try and continue this ridiculous assertion. Those who claim the PS3 has no games, really, just need to stop talking, do the world a favor and put a bullet in their heads. If you've got a problem with the console, that's one thing. If you've got a problem with it's price tag, that's another thing. But outright lying about the status, quantity, and quality of software on the PS3, really doesn't do anyone any good. Including the games market. For example, look at what the monopoly on OS' has done to the Desktop market? Do you feel that the PC community as a whole, is happy with MS over Vista....or unhappy? Likewise, what happens when you have 1 company, who has a monopoly over the rest, say...Blu Ray for example. Prices remain high, innovation remains nill, and competition...well, doesn't exist.

I'd really rather not see the console gaming industry, turn into another MS dominated fiasco, like the OS market has. And for those with PC's, you should really be thinking twice about your purchases.

Morne

Actually, the big exclusives determine and/or change the perception of your console and such also opens or closes certain market layers. The big exclusives also determine what sells on a console and such will determine the majority of third party effort on that console. The consecutive generations have more then proven this.

Also, the market leader is always created because its console received the most exclusives aka the most games. So exclusivity determines a lot more then some pleople think it does on the surface.

right now i am lucky enough to own all home consoles and portanle so exclusives mean nothing to e other than the fact i hate the PS3 controls and prefer the Xbox 360 controllers, bu in the past i found the to be an annoyance, if they were on my system i didnt care if the competitiion got hold of it, and if it wasnt on my system sometimes id be pissed off i couldnt play it, maybe we are one step closer to the ONE console, and manfactors com into it only the same way buyng a DVD player would.