360 Exclusives Out-perform PS3 Exclusives
Microsoft’s first party titles clearly winning at retail outlets…
Shocking research undertaken by 360 Magazine proves Microsoft’s dominance of the home console market, at least so far as first party creativity is concerned. Taking the last entries in a host of Sony and Microsoft’s biggest exclusive series, the evidence is clear – videogames sell better with an Xbox 360 sleeve on their box.
Uncharted 2 (4.73m) v Gears Of War 2 (6.11m)
In the battle of third-person narrative driven shooters, Epic’s testosterone fest comes out on top, offering gamers more grunts per buck. And before complaints arise that platform and puzzle elements mean the two can’t be compared, Uncharted wouldn’t have toppled any of the 360’s top three titles. This was, clearly, the fairest fight. – 360 1, PS3 0.
Killzone 3 (1.78m) v Halo 3 (11.3m)
The less said about this battle of the dull and grimy against vibrant and innovative, the better. We’ll move swiftly on, then. – 360 2, PS3 0.
Gran Turismo 5 (6.43m) v Forza Motorsport 3 (4.91m)
The PlayStation claws its way back into the game, riding on the crest of a textureless, jaggy wave. Still, a licensing agreement with the world’s most popular motoring show will surely sort this competition right out. – 360 2, PS3 1.
Heavy Rain (1.79m) v Alan Wake (1.04m)
It seems people enjoy wandering around the modern world shouting “Jason” than through a Stephen King knock-off. It’s a feeling we can largely agree with, though it’d be nice if pressing left made your character go left, and right made them turn right. Opening a door doesn’t make for an exciting minigame. – 360 2, PS3 2.
Resistance 2 (2.15m) v Left 4 Dead 2 (3.27m)
The PlayStation’s remaining headline shooter provides poor competition for Valve’s homage to teamwork, prising its way into far fewer consumers’ wallets, making for a final score that’s please Bill Gates immensely. – 360 3, PS3 2.
The Crushing Blow
You might feel the videogames we’ve squared off against each other are unfair combinations – a competition between unlike and unlike. Never matter. The broader picture is still of overall 360 dominance, and here’s why.
Taking the last entries in both consoles’ ten most popular exclusive series, this is what we end up with…
Some six million additional games sold across the 360’s exclusives, as opposed to the PS3’s. It seems no matter which way you cut it, the Xbox comes out on top.
(Source: vgchartz.com)
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Left 4 dead is also on pc stupid and it will come on the ps3!!!
the crushingblow will come wen you xbots see uncharted3 against youre halohd it i s a waste of monie
and gearsofwar is just brown with no green like unharted3 and gt5 will ruleover forza4 whocares about tpgear????!!! no me lossers
WOW, how did one article go so wrong so easily? This isn’t a fanboy reponse, as I own both I just despise these attention grabbing articles!
I’ll start with the key problems with this “news”.
Firstly a first party title is one created by a studio that is OWNED by the company who make the console.
This means that Gears of War, Halo, Left 4 Dead, Alan Wake, Heavy Rain, Resistance 2 are not First Party titles as the studios making them are NOT owned by the relevant manufacture.
These are THIRD PARTY EXCLUSIVES :)
Secondly sales does not mean it is a good game. Gears of War 2 may beat Uncharted 2 in sales but I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would actually rank the experiance of playing it as being better then Uncharted.
Thirdly Sony has more First Party and Third Party Exclusives so I guess if you took all those versus the 360′s the Playstation would come out tops?
Uncharted 2 vs Gears of War 2 – Surely Uncharted 2 is actually a third person adventure game with some “shooting” elements as opposed to Gears of War 2 which is purely a third person FPS shooter. Both games are great but can hardly be deemed opponents in a head to head.
All the others make little sense when it comes down to game type.
In fact the only valid part of the article is GT5 Vs Forza 3 because they are both heavy drving simulations AND are both made by sudios owned by the console maker for which they are on .
Lmfao! look how he cheery picks the PS3 exclusives, how come u didnt add in MGS4 or LBP? Or GoW3, and then uses L4D, like thats an 360 exclusive, i cleary dont need one to play that. Fact is only Halo and Gears do high millions the rest are just the same if not lower than PS3 games.
typical of a x360 website, starters of flame wars…
Remember
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
I own both consoles so that means I am right about this…
But its obvious that xbox owners don’t have as many games as ps3, which is why they have so many sales. All the xbots are just buying games so they can increase sales and claim to be the best.
Uhm… but PS3 has 100X times more exclusives.
Wow, just wow. You’re at it again just to garner more readers. I applaud your crappy site that writes just to start a fanboy war. You’re no good to the industry and this article is just pathetic.
ah yes, some journalists feel no shame, in order to get views.
how about doing a top ten list of “most lifelike breasts in videogames”, that seems right up your alley, then again, you probably have no frame of reference.
Seriously who cares!!! how about just enjoying the F-ing game
Dodgy article – given the Xbox360 tends to focus on a narrower range of ‘hit’ titles, whereas the PS3 tends to have a broader range of more diverse exclusives, the findings of the article as described should be common sense, but they in no way suggest that the headline of the article is true. Ie, great gutter journalism. And comparing KZ3 to Halo3 is the worst bulldust comparison I’ve seen – almost as bulldust as suggesting that Halo is innovative (well, beyond the use of kindergarten colour schemes ;)).
Using VGChartz as a source of data for overall software sales is also more than a little dodge, particularly as a number of PS3 exclusives (MAG, SOCOM, Warhawk, inFamous1 and 2) are available over the PSN (ie, their sales won’t be tracked anywhere).
That’s not to take away from the great sales of some of the 360 exclusives – the real story, fanboyism aside, is that both systems have had hit exclusives that have performed very well. Slicing it any other way is flamebait.
Uncharted 2 (4.73m) v Gears Of War 2 (6.11m)
In the battle of third-person narrative driven shooters, Epic’s testosterone fest comes out on top, offering gamers more grunts per buck. And before complaints arise that platform and puzzle elements mean the two can’t be compared, Uncharted wouldn’t have toppled any of the 360’s top three titles. This was, clearly, the fairest fight. – 360 1, PS3 0.
Killzone 3 (1.78m) v Halo 3 (11.3m)
The less said about this battle of the dull and grimy against vibrant and innovative, the better. We’ll move swiftly on, then. – 360 2, PS3 0.
i mean retard!! in ur 2nd comparsion you insult kz3 as “dull and grimy”?? what do you describe gears of war then?? a garden full of roses???
@ blastiel
Resistance and heavy rain are first party exclusives because Sony owns the ip. They can get any studio they want to make those games if they wished (perfect example is sly 4 being made by sanzaru games)
On topic, a cherry picked fan boy argument that is typical of the desperate fanboys to justify the 360s existence.
Sales =/= quality, and it would seem less biased if you included a variety of games which all regions like, rather then the 3 shooter pairs which are biggest hits in America, and the 2 pairs which are much more a European hit, avoiding any form of Japanese hit where the 360 is basically dead.
Silly fellow gamers. All the site said was this xbox title sold more than this ps3 title. There is no reason for a call to arms every time something said about a certain console. Grow up better yet since most of you are probably in your late 20s to early 30 act your age.
Sales = Quality right? I mean just look at the Call of Duty franchise…
lol it’s unbelievable.
I think that actually only ps3 owners read this crappy site, because I see only them commenting here.
Ps3 fangirls are hilarious. The sun could be shining brightly outside and through their utter delusion they will try to convince you it’s raining. Dazed and confused children. Poor things. As an owner of both consoles, I enjoy the great games for both systems and don’t have try to convince myself the other console sucks simply because I don’t have it and can’t afford it. The truth hurts, accept it and move on. The fact is sony lost this generation to microsoft long ago. The fact that the 360 and ps3 will end up on about equal footing by the end of this console generation is a huge win for microsoft. Nobody would have predicted this outcome in 2004 before these new consoles hit the market and the ps2 had such a huge marketshare. Their victory in this console cycle was all but assured. How quickly things change.
What programing language should i use to hack this shitty website? is it c? or maybe HTML? thanks.
The truth will set you free!!!! And wash away all the hate and demons lol XBOX 360 Sell better than ps3 exclusive and fhats a fact!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gamettag on xbox is XxLathalOnexX hit me up. I would give my ps3 gamertag but I sold that piece of s***!!!!!!!!!!!
Gamertag on xbox is XxLethalOnexX hit me up
Hey ya PoS3 fantards! Howz LAST PLACE 4 ya been the last 5 years? Ph0n3y defence force are a bunch of retards. You are last place in developer’s hearts and minds now AS IT SHOULD BE!
Lol last place? the PS3 in sales is in last place, dummy. Who cares about their console sales, i want games, and i got them. Much more fun games instead of 3000 fps games, 1 racing games, and whatever 3rd party company cant make a game for Ps3 lol. I got both so im not missing much really.
Retarded article is retarded.
The PS3 has a wider range of exclusives to choose from of course no single one sells as much as exclusives on the 360.
@Dave
Hah! Brilliant – my irony metre just exploded!
If you add up all the PS3 exclusive sales versus all the 360 exclusive sales, the PS3 is on top by about 7.2 million units. Dumb article.
That’s because there are less of them!
Typical bot article, keep your sales ill take the gaming experience anyway of the week. If you prefer sales as a rating for game quality you might. Give Pokemon a try I heard that sold gazillions so surely a gazillion people can’t be wrong fuck a box gladly I traded that shit in, might as well just make it a dedicated propriatary Halo, COD, AND GEARS console which sucks for gamers lik
e myself which gives a fuck about those franchises, wows expolisions and guts COOOL
This is damn ridiculous when it’s callled a crushing blow, what happened to all the other exclusives of PS3 ? Their sales are much higher than all the 360 exclusives combined…The author just fails to consider the broad consensus of quality games reaching out to gamers. Good luck with the website and the 360 network…whatever it is.
what about :
-Ratchet and Clank Future VS Banjo and Kazoe
-Demon’s Souls VS Too Human
-Valkyria Chronicles VS Blue Dragon
-Killzone 2 VS Metro 2033
-Metal Gear Solid 4 VS Dead Rising 1
don’t they count?
or is it not convenient to name those to make this totally incorrect point?
what about all the other PS3 games that don’t have any 360 counterpart like the Motorstorm games, Wipeout, Heavenly Sword, Siren and many many many more???
give it up, loser
Is this supposed to be serious to begin with? Hard to believe.
Why is it when an Xbot talks about sales they always leave out the Wii? If sales mean a better game then Wii sports is the best game this gen.
The moment you compared Halo 3 to Killzone 3, is the moment your website became irrelevant and obsolete. The mere fact that Killzone 3 just about owns Halo 3 in every way possible, and the fact that not even Halo Reach has better graphics than K3, really shows how much you know about gaming. How old are you? 16? GTFO
Let it be known I own both systems and enjoy playing games on both.
That said…
You should probably do all of us a favor & never write an article again, in fact never write anything ever again…Wouldn’t want a small child to read it and actually think you know what you are talking about.
Maybe take a look at review scores instead of just sales. Sometimes even bad end-products sell a lot. I mean look at Transformers 2. That was a huge piece of crap and made $$.
Justin Bieber sells more CD’s then James Morrison.
Who is the better overall more quality producing artist ?
Excactly!!!
Playstation 3 is destroying everything the 360 has, EVERYTHING!
And all you BREAKBOX 3 FIXME cunty’s are Low quality gamers, simple as that.
Hahaha fuckin dummies!!!
I think we should form a charity called ConsolesForThePoor to donate 360′s and PS3′s to all the povs who 5 years into the cycle still can’t afford both consoles. That way there won’t be floods of tears everytime its suggested one is better/ has outperformed the other.
Kids, be cool and stay in school. That way you won’t be in the heartbreaking position of having the kind of feelings for a console that normal people reserve for their children because its the one piece of tech you can afford.
Gears of War 2 isn’t a first-party title. So that means the PS3 wins.
Gears of War is made by Epic Games, a third party studio.
Uncharted wins.
lol. Is this supposed to be a mockery of journalism?
@the author of this article:
Even other professional sites are ripping you apart after this article. How do you say, “You’re an idiot” in 360 source code?
But hey… if it makes it easy for you to justify why owning one, and only one, type of system…. and you need to convince yourself the one you have is the bezt….. because… Microsoft is holding your little sister ransom or something…. then I hope this article at least helped your ego.
Seriously though… why aren’t you capable of acknowledging when a developer creates a work of art like Uncharted, LBP, or inFamous? Wouldn’t you be happier owning the greatness that is Halo and Gears, while also seeing how incredible games like Uncharted, LBP, inFamous, Killzone, God of War, MLB The Show, Resistance, Twisted Metal, Yakuza, Heavy Rain, Portal 2 (If you don’t play on PC), Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid, and -ALL THEIR SEQUELS!?!?
Bear in mind, I only listed the exceptionally good exclusives. I could have listed games inside of genres that don’t exist on the 360, like White Knight Chronicles, but bah… 360 doesn’t want variety, or anything.
Got to psxextreme.com to see some real journalism. The editor is basically laughing at you after this article. He’s right to do so.
The truth will set you free!!!!!! Lol gamertag on xbox is XxLethalOnexX
ya this article sucks balls, i cant believe how stupid th ewriter is to put up such biased numbers. i mena come on.
figures that a xbox website would write an article about xbox games selling better, go figure.
The truth is killing these PS3 drones wake up already Sony dropped the ball their a has been, It’s Xbox 360 this Gen with the best exclusives,multiplates,controller,online service,functions,achievements,motion controls,CROSS GAME CHAT and they all add up to a better gaming experience.
I don’t know if I’ve read a more fanboy driven article in my life. This is truly sad what gamers have devolved into in one generation, and of course it’s inaccurate.
Thanks Dave,
Your comment proves the fact that PS3 owners and their fanboys are totally clueless and a real shame. Sony has become the laughing stock of the gaming industry partly because of you.
@Xbot 4eva
LOL…….wow such a blind fanboy
I think Microsofts last two E3′s, being out of touch with their fans AND the fact that they don’t give a crap about core gamers anymore prooves that they are they laughing stock this gen.
Sony are giving gamers what they what this year and I’d rather support them then Microsoft
Have fun on Star wars Kinect and Disney land Kinect
I have both consoles and HATE fanboyism, so here I go.
well Uncharted is WAY batter than anything. one of the best franshises this gen. Gear= generic TPS.. it was among the first cover based shooter I give it that. but besides, nothing much.
Killzone3 x Halo3… well Im not a fan of FPS, but I play a few.. the ones I fell are more fluid and beautifull. that said I Played till the and to date only 2 FPS and they are MW2 and Killzone 2.. I played halo reach wich is suposed to be more modern in tec than H3, and I still think K2 is better than H:R! so obviously K3 is better than H3. in quality I mean. or do you really think its fair compare K3 wich was recently released with H3 that is out there for YEARS! LOL
anyway I didnt played K3 yet but Im very exited to pick it up with a move sharp shooter, thats how shooters are suposed to be played, with a gun!
heavy Rain isnt a game, is SHIT! Alan wake wipes the floor with it. actually Alan Wake would compare better with Uncharted 3 since its one of the best looking games on 360. I really enjoyed AW cant wait for a sequel. still Uncharted is better than Alan, but they are not far apart.
well Resistence and Left for dead. since Im not a fan of shooters.. those are two of the PILE I wasnt able to play.. just ugly, porrly made. to be fair I played Resistance 1, not the 2. yet I’ll give R3 a shoot with the Sharpshooter move combo.
and thats all. thanks for reding
As soon as this list didn’t include MGS4, you just knew it was just going to be a biASSed story… Last time I checked, when I play a game its because of quality… Metal Gear Solid 4 did what couldn’t be done on the XBOX 360… Take that in for just a second… An Exclusive is just what it is, a game that is not available for any other console. Outside of contracts and agreements, Developers could virtually make any game for either console. Except for MGS4, The XBOX doesn’t cut the mustard in the technology dept. Hideo Kojima said it himself, Only possible on the PS3. I’m fairly certain that the “grainy and blurry look” of Halo 3 could easily be converted to HD and placed on PS3. lol The real reason behind the Xbox having higher sales, being cheaper longer. Microsoft made a cheap console, one that could give their customers their halo fix, and not have to fork out the 500 that sony was asking for its premier console. But when you sell your soul to the devil, you can’t expect for everything to be perfect. Xbox 360 failure rate is so high not because of a mistake but because Microsoft cut corners to get more consoles out first. It is a good strategy in the sense that more people will own a console but the fact that every customer of a 360 has an 85% chance of having their console fall down and die should be enough to say nobody cares that XBOX sold a lot.
Walmart has probably boosted the sales of “Great Value” brand products but at what point was i actually supposed to believe that even though Great Value Cheese is better than Kraft Cheese.
Halo 3 came out in 2007 and Killzone 3 this year (2011)*, he actually compared the sales of a game that has less than a year on the market to one that has been around for a 4. How is this even a comparison?
*in parenthesis just in case xbox fagboys don’t understand what i meant by this year.
if both consoles have 50 million custumers but one has two exclusives a year and the other 15, it’s nothing to be prood if any one of those two sells more than the competition
but as a whole all the PS3 exclusives always sell more than the 360 exclusives, much more
the author is really an emarresement to the gaming community and part of teh reason why games still have trouble to be taken seriously outside the medium
@Xbot 4eva and the author of this article.
I got the following from a commenter on another website. Sobering information for a 360 junkie. (FYI, everyone would be better off to own all 3 major consoles. And if sales are truly the determining factor, then Microsoft and Sony are both losing to Nintendo)
Here’s an exercise that will shut them up.
Find out how many Xbox 360s claim to have been sold at the end of the last reporting period – total lifetime sales. Next, find out how many Xbox Live subscriptions there are (both Silver and Gold included). Next, find out how many Gold subscribers there are (they’re the only ones that can play online).
It goes something like this for the end of FY11 (*);
53 million units sold (lifetime)
36 million XBL subscriptions
15 million (or so) Gold subscriptions.
* I haven’t looked up the exact figures, I remember the rough numbers from a previous search I did, but the exact numbers may vary slightly. The order of magnitude and relationship between the three figures is correct however.
Yes, less than 30% of all Xbox360s sold *ever* are actively connected for online play.
Let that sink in for a moment. Compare that to the sales numbers on the 360 for Halo (multi-player online) and Call of Duty. Then start looking at the sames of games that are predominantly single player on the 360.
Now shake your head in disbelief.
You can do the same exercise for the PS3, the numbers go something like;
51 million sold
43 million consoles online (according to 3rd party research)
77 million PSN accounts (Sony’s figure from the PSN hack about the number of accounts affected).
Every one of those 43 million PS3s has the potential to play online, that is 85% of all PS3s ever sold.
Now look at the strength of games with predominantly single player content on the PS3, and nod with understanding.
The 360, for all the statistical prowess is hiding a secret. Even with the huge acceleration of sales numbers for consoles, the number of XBL accounts of any kind has not kept pace with the number of 360s sold, and the number of Gold subscribers lags even further behind that. If we’re supposed to believe that online gaming is the bee’s knees, then why are fewer than 30% of all 360s ever sold in a position to play online? The 360 is/was billed as *the* console for online and *the* console for online multi-player shooters. Yet look at the reality.
I don’t see why anyone would conclude that online multi-player was the almighty in view of those simple facts. Seriously, if people want to start assessing sales figures there are a lot of interesting things behind the headline sales numbers.
The truth shall set you free!!!!! Xbox online Destroyed the ps3 online when 2 many people get online it lags it f****** sucks!!!! I would know because I had a ps3 and I hated it!!!!!
@N7LEGION
If Xbox Live is better than PSN, then why is that there is a much higher percentage of PS3 users connected online than than the percentage of 360 users, as stated by mblocker15? And btw, the “I would know since I had a PS3 and the experience sucked” statements aren’t convincing anybody because why would you waste money on buying a console you despise? It’s not like you’re going to waste several bucks just to say “PS3 sucks.”
Because it’s free you pauper!
@Tim
I would know because I had a ps3 at lunch and the online sucked! I sold it for what I paid for it due to the fact they were in short supply. I waited 5 years buy another 1 and it still sucks thought bye this time I thought would be better online but it wasn’t!! Sold that ps3 for pretty much what I paid for it. Want to play some of those exclusive games just found out they just weren’t any much better!! Killzone garbage resistance 2 garbage the only good game was uncharted 2 but I think gears is better anyway!!!! I think just do the fact the ps network is free that’s why people are more eager to sign up 4 it. I pay for xbox live and its worth the money!!!!!
@N7LEGION
Your entire comment is all talk and no reasoning. I can pretty much summarize your comment in two words: PS3 sucks. Just about anybody in the world can say that, but not everybody can say that along with evidence. You gave no evidence whatsoever so do you expect me to believe that crap you’ve typed? And if you think you can take me down, you cannot. I had a 3 week long argument with an xbot and I ultimately clobbered him. Ever since he has not made another fanboy comment for weeks. And the sad part is is that you and xbot 4ever combined are not even close to being the fanboy as that guy on YouTube. I can easily tear you guys to shreds so try me, if you want to be owned over and over again.
@Tim aka a fag lol
Look I’m not trying to make you not like the ps3 like if you want I can care less I’m just saying I don’t like it and its sucks dick oh and by the way get a life loser lol you can take me down dude u suck so much have a nice life loser ;-)
The truth shall set you free!!!!
@N7LEGION aka a 1000000000x bigger fag lfmao
Maybe if you stop misinforming the public, you might get pwned less often ’cause you just got pwned again. So if you excuse me, I am going to continue on enjoying my diversity rich life (a huge characteristic that the PS3 has that the 360 doesn’t). Enjoy your life in Loserville, loser and have fun at not getting anybody to believe your comments ;-)
@N7LEGION
Especially since only you and xbot 4eva are making xbot comments on this page, and since most of your comments are at the bottom of the page, I don’t see you influencing any readers here. So I guess you posting your comments here is the same as you posting no comments. Oh well, at least you tried ;-)
the truth shall set you free loser ;-)
Oh look. This idiot actually compared 360 exclusives to the PS3.
I wonder why it has more sales?
Oh that’s right. All the Sony exclusives are / were / have been spread across the multiple genres, aiming at a wider target audience, using no more than three more in the series.
Microsoft’s sales policy for exclusives over the last few years, is to support “already” Multi million selling titles, mainly said shooters.
That and the said amount of consoles ever sold for the 360 super seeds the PS3.
Now think.
If the predominant side of your market is sponsoring Halo, Gears of War – as well as other new genre fps’s you’re going to dominate the market.
Sony however, have spread themselves wide, covering JRPG’s, RPG’s as well as many other exclusives.
The two consoles by far are un comparable in their own respects that the 360 is lagging behind on true exclusive development. Review E3, compare the Microsoft presentation to the Sony presentation and then you’ll see what I mean. Sony by far has signed on more titles than the kinect gimmick that is Microsoft.
And then there’s the issue that sales means nothing to video game quality – Dark souls (deamon soul’s sequel) will most likely be the most underrated game of the year. Where as Gears of war, Halo and other titles in their own respect will be forced marketing ploys.
Go do your research before you outright fanboy your own article and place obvious bias on the “comparison”.
The truth shall set you free!!! Loser
@N7LEGION
So a few days after you posted your last comments, no one has bothered to read them (including me). Don’t tell me that I didn’t tell you that no one gives a f*** about your comments. I weep for your lack of intelligence… not really, your much earlier comments are quite hilarious to read, especially your “The truth shall set you free” statement. It’s quite counter-intuitive because the truth is setting me free since the PS3 is better than the 360 in almost every characteristic, feature, and quality it musters. So, I think you should have typed “The truth shall set you free! You lucky ba***rd!” since us PS3 fans are very fortunate.
@TIM AKA A FAG. Lol The truth shall set you free little fat man who lives in ur mom’s basement lol
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Youve got an awful lot of text for only having 1 or
two pictures. Maybe you could space it out better?
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