Aaron Greenberg, Director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE has said in the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine that Microsoft and Xbox 360 has the most exclusives this year.
“There’s no other platform that offers more exclusives,” Greenberg said in the OXM interview, “Obviously there are going to be great games on the PlayStation 3, and we respect that, but our goal is to have the most blockbuster titles and the most exclusives and I think we clearly have that this year.”
“It’s going to be a big year for us. And not just for core games, but what we’re going to do with Xbox Live, we’re going to bring Project Natal this holiday.”
This comes directly after SCEA claimed PlayStation 3 is “better for our publishing community” than Xbox 360.
Already this year Sony has about 8 from Feb – May.Not to mention the fall games and games still to be announced.The 360 only has Halo,Fable and Crackdown as complete exclusives and then PC/360 games include Mass Effect,Alan Wake & Splinter Cell.All together that is 6 which is for the whole year.i did not even mention GT5,Trinity Universe,Last Guardian,The Agency,DC Universe,the next Ape Escape and possibly KZ3,infamous2 7 R3.Am I missing something here?Then you have Yakuza 4,Ar Tonelico 3 and WKC2 for Japan.As usual MS is talking out of their rear.As for blockbusters,the 360 has nothing that will stand up to GOW3 and GT has always been a bigger franchise than Halo.Maybe he is talking about DLC,which is all you get with the 360.
They both equally have amazing titles. Mass Effect 2 was amazing. God of War 3 will be amazing. There is too many titles for both to consider. Microsoft’s words are just defensive. As many quality titles they have that is worth buying, God of War 3 is huge.
The main problem is majority of Microsoft’s exclusives are sequels to games this generation unlike the PS3 with God of War 3, Yakuza 3, GT5, and many more. Microsoft has Alan Wake but its hard to carry a load of repeated sequels on the same generation console.
Whatever though. They both are good. Microsoft is just twisting words as they all do to make things look good for themselves. Damage control.
He’s probably referring more to the “exclusive” experience you’ll get with Natal and I’d agree with him on that. And while Sony may have a slight edge in exclusive titles it’ll be hard to doubt the Natal marketing machine once it goes into full steam.
Still, it’s a bit premature for MS to claim victory (same goes for Sony). We’re only halfway through the first quarter and there’s still E3 to consider. No telling what both companies are saving for the big show.