It's just different priorities. I'd consider myself core gamer as I game on an overclocked i7 pc with a 670 video card on the latest AAA games. But I already have enough AAA games out there, far more than I'll ever get to play. So to me, Microsoft spending money on exclusive ip's is a complete waste of money. I'd far prefer that they don't waste any money there as my core gaming is more than satisfied, and instead they spend money on helping 3rd parties, more XBLive Arcade, Indie and Kinect. Helping 3rd parties should always be priority #1, it's the easiest way to have the best versions of the games core gamers play, and the best way to win over the core. XBLive arcade is awesome and actually where most of my gaming goes nowadays so personally I'd prefer that they spend their money to expand Summer of Arcade to having that level of quality arcade titles coming year round. I'd infinitely prefer that to collosally wasting it on AAA games which are already more than adequately handled by 3rd parties. Likewise the indie scene on 360 is weak compared to what's on Steam, I wish they would spend some money there to help indies out more and take that market more seriously rather than just an afterthought. And Kinect, yes I'm a core gamer and I like it, I definitely want them investing money there. Finally spend money on Live itself. It's already better than the competition but it can be improved, throw some money there. But spending it on AAA exclusives? Hell no! Total waste of money. But that's just my humble opinion as a core gamer, hopefully it didn't make you pass out
So, uhh, you're comparing 4-5 years after release (PS2 was released at the end of 2000) with 7-8 years after release, and complaining that the latter contains no new IP? How many new PS2 IPs did Sony release in 2007-2008?
Because third party development is not "external first-party development." It's "third party development." Sony did not "externally develop" the roughly 1,400 games that came out on the PS2 and were never released for Xbox or GC. Microsoft did not "externally develop" the tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of games that are only available on the MS-DOS and Windows platforms. And that's why I'm not going to call any first-year X360 games "externally developed Microsoft games" unless MS published them or somehow otherwise actively funded them.
We have the same background, but a different conclusion
Truth be told I'm not 100% sure I'll even need an Xbox 720. I'm looking at my Win8 dev mule machine next to me and it cold boots to the start screen faster than the consoles do, so Win8 has the pc startup speed isue totally worked out. It's got a simple interface that can work from 10 feet, and I figure 2012 pc hardware will be stronger than 2013 console hardware anyways. The app store makes software installation a breeze, it all just works so damn well to where my 360 actually locks up more often than my pc does during gaming. So I'm half thinking a Win8 pc alone may be enough for my gaming. It all comes down to XBLive support on Win8 and how extensive it will be along with all the other 360 niceties if they will make the transition to Win8. Pc already has more core games than I know what to do with anyways, so if they can get the general 360 experience on Win8 then that might be all I need. I figure they will since I expect their next console to basically be Win8 anyways. Yeah I might miss some exclusives but I just don't care that much anymore. It's not like the old days where I'd wait patiently for "The Game" to come out. Nowadays there's so many games I just don't care about exclusives much anymore, and personally I find exclusives are behind the multi plat games anyways, I find multi plats to just be better. Plus I'd play better versions of all the multi plat games on a Win8 pc anyways. There's always the issue of dickless software pirates, they may muck up the works and publishers may avoid porting games to Win8. We'll see.Because we're talking about whether or not MS needs to support new IPs right now and in the near future, not whether or not launching a year early was a nice move that resulted in some nice exclusives way back in 2005.
With first-party publishing (i.e., including "second party" games), that's true. That results in titles that may not have seen the light of day, or perhaps would have been developed with substantially less capital, hitting gamers' shelves. But not so much with timed exclusive DLC. That doesn't provide gamers with stuff that wouldn't have come out otherwise, or which perhaps would have been of significantly lesser quality. The point of that is to temporarily deny the experience to your competitor's customers and so make your own platform more appealing. It's like funding product anti-development.
Then I hope they enjoy their Kinect.
Oh.....and Usher.
Logic has no place with the trolls.
Serious question though, is Class 3 really supposed to be out this year? That's the zombie MMO correct?
