That’s just my opinion, though

I just hope + picks up steam sooner than later, right now the free games added to the IGC are a friggin’ joke. I was so happy with the service until vita was added with awesome games. after that each week’s been more disappointing than the previous one.

Yeah they really need to add a few more franchises to convince me to get it and get rid of paying for live and roll out something similar to PS+ Program.

They have to so they can make it easier or else the third party developers will won’t to keep advertising on the the next xbox and it will be 2006 all over again and most of the rumors are pointing at AMD A series over the cells but I’ll wait for the real specs.

Why Square Enix, Why?! Do we have to wait untill Square releases their own console before we can play VersusXIII?

We should all unite aand sue Square for false advertising, Verus was one of the reasons why i bought a PS3.

First answer, noted… Second answer, I might wanna wait out for PS4’s specs before saying anything… I have some doubts that Sony would give up the Cell Technology, which they spent a fortune into it, and developers are finally starting to know what to do with it…

If I were them, I feel bad for punishing the third-party on learning how to use the Cell Tech… All those knowledge and experiences gone to waste…

What Daniel said. You were talking about a lack of “exclusive content” which is BS considering Sony’s and Nintendo’s vast 1st party. MS’s studios are stellar, don’t get me wrong, but Forza, Halo and Gears won’t be enough to convince me to buy XBox 3 for those few excellent exclusives only.

Thanks for making it clear. That’s what I meant.

Regardless their strategy works. I do agree with you that Microsoft is a joke, look at what happened to Rareware who are stuck making Kinect games.

Wanna see the bottom of youre avatars shoe?

Wuh-BAMM!!!

And the previous 2 years before that.

Ahhhhh Kinect. Its the future. Wont you jump in?

if you love Halo, Forza and Fable your choice is clear.
Sadly Bungie, and Peter Molyneaux ran for the hills so the “soul” of Halo and Fable are now gone.
Gears is 3rd party but the God of the dudebro’s left in a blaze of shame recently as well so this means two things.
1. Gears will never be the same.
2. Gears will be multiplat. Guaranteed.

Now if you want a variety of amazing exclusives to choosefrom there is only one company in gaming that brings the heat.

Hint: it aint MS.

i’m guessing you mean “Excited” but I like your word better.

Every year when MS took the stage at E3 I promptly “EXITED”.

When you have ZERO games to announce you set up a countdown to a gaming expo that everyone already knows the date for. It helps build up false hope until their big reveal of NO GAMES just like the last 3 E3’s they “attended”.

MS is the ass end of a sad joke in the games industry.

Who gave you a disagree obliviously you miss read what I said.

“Well.. Microsoft recruited some new studios these past years lately… They might have a chance at exclusive first party titles, that is if they won’t go make multimedia apps…”

But we haven’t seen not one new ip game from them. those new studios have been focusing on xbox live downloadable exclusive games and kinect titles and lets keep in mind that they are rumored to announce an Xbox Tablet which maybe why they bought those studios as extra backup for help like if they wanted Xbox to go portable in the future or something happens to the Gears Ip.

“Microsoft already done it this gen so why can’t they do it on the next again?”

See Sony thought the same thing this gen but look what happened to the franchises that were exclusive to PS2 from third party, they went multiplat this gen and with the Valve Steam Console on the horizon how do we know they may want to bring those franchises to the Steam console, exactly we don’t know. The only reason Microsoft use their money this gen is because developers like Crytek, Crystal Dynamics, Bethesda, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and more complain how hard it is to develop for PS3, so they felt the need to develop on 360 first then port it to PS3 and that is what majority of third party developers have done besides DICE, Square Enix Final Fantasy division, Ubisoft, some parts of EA, & a few others. With next gen its different because the PS4 will probably be running on AMD which is easier to develop for than PS3 Cells Processors which means no more complaining, no more porting, no more advertising for a specific console third party sides of things.

Then on top of that next gen games are going to crazy expensive to develop for. EA and Ubisoft have said that before and as this gen is coming to an end look around you most developers are advertising on all platforms because they know next gen games are going to cost a lot to make so they need to advertise on all platforms to inform people and get more money. I mean AC III was advertise on PS3 but it had another commercial advertise for all platforms same thing with Far Cry 3 and Fifa 13.

No I’m just basing it on both Microsoft and Sony past this gen If third party developers finally step and advertise on all platforms then Microsoft won’t have a chance to lead over Sony in the sales because Microsoft thrives off of Third Party exclusive content more than their first party.

Now if we are talking about exclusives yes they play a major role but based off of Microsoft history they won’t release much new ips because they would want to keep the primary focus on Halo or Gears at the end of the year with Fable or Forza and probably focus on Kinect games the whole year and xbox live exclusive downloadable games.

Halo and Uncharted are on the same level in terms on sales and they both will sale the same buy the end of the year.

And why would 1st party games not be relevant to the discussion?

You were actually talking about lack of exclusive content on the next platforms, which won’t really happen because first and second-party developers will provide both consoles with those. The fact third-party developers will stick to multiplatform releases put even more weight on first-party games when it’s time to choose which console to buy.

Let me give you an example: if I want to play something like the next-gen Call of Duty, it doesn’t matter whether I get an X720 or PS4. However, what if I really like Halo, or Uncharted? Isn’t that going to affect my purchase decision?