Who’s Got The Best Exclusives?

console-warsIn the epic fanboy debates of ages past and present, the ultimate factor always turns out to be console exclusives. Being able to tout a game that the other console doesn’t have wins major points, even if the other side pretends that they wouldn’t touch Halo or Metal Gear Solid if it was on their console of choice. Yeah. Right.

However, these days, console exclusives are light. Since games cost more to make, it’s just not financially reasonable to make an exclusive for one console when you can make more money by spreading the love and your game around.

Unigamesity has put together a list of the pure console exclusives from 2008, and compares their Metacritic ratings. Who wins? You might be surprised. For the record, I think Left 4 Dead should have been included on the 360 list. Sure, you can play it on the PC. But console-wise, you can only play it on the 360, which is what matters for the purposes of this argument.

Source- Unigamesity

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18 thoughts on “Who’s Got The Best Exclusives?”

  1. FIXED!

    360
    Gears of War 2 – 93
    Braid – 93
    Geo Wars: RE 2 – 90
    Left 4 Dead – 90
    Portal: Still Alive – 89
    AVG: 91

    PS3
    LittleBigPlanet – 95
    Metal Gear Solid 4 – 94
    WipEout HD – 87
    Resistance 2 – 87
    Valkyria Chronicles – 86
    AVG: 89.8

    Wii is not a gaming system.

  2. [quote comment=”3544″]
    Wii is not a gaming system.
    [/quote]

    Ha! True that. I didn’t see a PC list, though. I’ll make one.

    PC
    Crysis – 91
    Modded games – over 9000

  4. Damn, it always pisses me off when PC/360 games don’t get the Xbox Exclusive name, because like you said, it’s a CONSOLE exclusive. Because Microsoft owns both PC and 360, they often have the two go hand in hand, so when something like this shows up, we get stabbed in the back. Therefore, not fair.

  5. [quote comment=”3544″]FIXED!

    360
    Gears of War 2 – 93
    Braid – 93
    Geo Wars: RE 2 – 90
    Left 4 Dead – 90
    Portal: Still Alive – 89
    AVG: 91

    PS3
    LittleBigPlanet – 95
    Metal Gear Solid 4 – 94
    WipEout HD – 87
    Resistance 2 – 87
    Valkyria Chronicles – 86
    AVG: 89.8

    Wii is not a gaming system.[/quote]
    Exactly! Where are the downloadable titles?

  6. Stabbed in the back is kinda dramatic, isn’t it?

    Also, they did not say why, but they did say that they left of downloadable titles.

  7. I think what you say about not wanting to play a game even if it was on “your side” is wrong.

    I have played and complete Halo 1 + 2, yet to try 3, and I honestly didn’t think they were anywhere near as good as they were made out to be (I didn’t ascend into the heavens with MC playing the harp made from the devil) So I probably wouldn’t bother buying Halo 3..Hell, I played Halo 2 on a friends machine ffs!

    Same with MGS….I hate it. 1 was a solid (bum dun shh) game and 2 was meh but 3 was “Please stop now” so I wouldn’t bother with 4 especially after reading some reviews..

    I own/ed every Ninty console from the N64 to the Wii and I have only every owned one brawl game (whatever the GC one was called) and I found it boring and button mashy so I traded it in. I haven’t even thought about playing any of the other games in the series. (Same with Zelda sort of, my first zelda game was TP then I went back and played some of the classics)

    —

    To be honest I never realised how bad the console wars were until I started regularly visiting here and I am inclined to agree with Zero Punctuation on his dream of us all getting along with our different console dogs.(Go watch ZP if you don’t already)

    TL:DR – Can’t we just all get along!

    ((Or, I could just take the cheap, war inducing, fuel to the fire, slicks and stones route out and point out that the Wii beat the 360 and you are all jealous.))

    Then again, I could just bugger off and stick to PC gaming 🙂

  9. [quote comment=”3561″]
    To be honest I never realised how bad the console wars were until I started regularly visiting here and I am inclined to agree with Zero Punctuation on his dream of us all getting along with our different console dogs.(Go watch ZP if you don’t already)[/quote]

    Well, for me, I don’t care about the console wars, because I have all 3. I just like one of them more than others.

    Also, when I was talking about Halo 3/ MGS, I was just using an example. I’ve often heard people say they don’t care for ANY of the exclusives on another console, but something tells me that if those titles were on their console, they’d be touting them the same as the other side did.

  10. You should hire some Wii liking writers.

    Or just some that don’t seem to make it their one and true goal in life to put down the Wii at every turn.

    :'(

  11. [quote comment=”3566″]You should hire some Wii liking writers.

    Or just some that don’t seem to make it their one and true goal in life to put down the Wii at every turn.

    :'([/quote]

    Haha, sorry. It’s just I have the thing sitting on my shelf, and it’s been there for years unplayed. I really feel like Nintendo let me down this gen, so I get bitter. I’m getting over it, though. Plus, the thing hasn’t had any REALLY good games come out for it in awhile. I mean, besides No More Heroes, what game came out for it in 2008 that can match with others from the PS3 and 360? It’s not so much about bashing the Wii as it is about expecting a competing video game console to live up to a standard of quality that it just isn’t matching up to. I want the Wii to be good, but it just isn’t so far.

  12. Am i the only one who doesnt worship L4D? i mean i like the game, it’s good and all but i cant play the junk out of it like others do one this website.

  13. [quote comment=”3570″]Am i the only one who doesnt worship L4D? i mean i like the game, it’s good and all but i cant play the junk out of it like others do one this website.[/quote]
    I dunno. I’m a Valve fanboy so I fall in love with any game made by Valve.

  14. [quote comment=”3558″]Microsoft owns both PC and 360…[/quote]

    Microsoft may make WINDOWS, that doesnt mean they have anything to do with most of the games released for its operating system (aside from this newer “games for windows” crap) …

    I think PC wins for all the Free (flash) games and the great $9.99 indie games available on STEAM and other content suppliers… Has anyone played i-fluid? Very unique, definetly worth the 10 bucks (eh, im Canadian, its worth the conversion!)

    Playstation is full of great games who’s storylines get convoluted in strange japanese twists, Xbox is full of alien vs planet survivals, and Nintendo is full of games targetted to kids or the eldery with motor-skill disabilities ( thanks Wii !! )…

    hmm…

  15. [quote comment=”3566″]You should hire some Wii liking writers.

    Or just some that don’t seem to make it their one and true goal in life to put down the Wii at every turn.

    :'([/quote]

    lol, we like the wii. It’s new, of course fun. But, they jus don’t hav a good lineup of games. Mario kart was pretty good, but since then…

    and DraZiC11, if not play the junk out of L4D, then what do you play the fudge out of?

  16. For the past 2 years I’d say the 360 has the best exclusives but now? My descision to buy a PS3 seems to be the best one so far!

  17. Yeah, if the Wii had better games, people would not be so down on it. I played the Wii at a friends this past weekend and while I had a blast playing Mario Kart, it still felt like Mario Kart. DIdn’t really jump out at me as anything next gen.

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