PS3 vs. 360 exclusives - fight!

[Asura]

Following something that was discussed a bit in the Playstation 3 retrospective thread, I've reformatted the NeoGAF list that was linked there into a comparison table of Xbox 360 and PS3 exclusives, broken down by year.

I think this might be a bit off as the PS3 list ends in 2014, and in my experience the PS3's exclusives went on a bit longer than that (whereas I think the 360s pretty much stopped by that point) but it's still a pretty good list for years 2005-2014.

Which machine did you feel had the best exclusives, looking back on the entire generation?

EDIT: Also feel free to point out any missing examples. Already I can see that Valkyria Chronicles is not in the list, so there are presumably others that are missing.

Xbox 360	Playstation 3
2005
Kameo
Amped 3
Project Gotham 3
Ridge Racer 6
Dead or Alive 4
Perfect Dark Zero
2006
Far Cry Instincts Predator	Ridge Racer 7
Rumble Roses	Genji Days of Blade
The Outfit	Resistance: Fall of Man
Full Auto	Gundam Crossfire
Bomberman Act Zero	Full Auto 2
Saints Row	Untold Legends
Moto GP 2006
Tom Clancy GRAW
Over G Fightersy
Chrome Hounds
Ninety-Nine-Nights
Dead Rising
Import Tuner Challenge
Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2
2007
Halo 3	Motorstorm
Forza Motorsport 2	Lair
Crackdown	WarHawk
Tenchu Z	Uncharted
Kengo Legend of 9	Heavenly Sword
Beautiful Katamari	Time Crisis 4
Project Sylpheed	Eye of Judgement
Dance Dance Revolution Universe	Folklore
Fuzion Frenzy 2	Formula One Championship Edition
Bullet Witch	Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction
Ace Combat 6
WarTech
Blue Dragon
Project Gotham 4
2008
Lost Odyssey	Haze
Culdcept Saga	MotorStorm Pacific Rift
Too Human	Hotshots Golf 5
Infinite Undiscovery	Metal Gear Solid IV
Viva Pinata Trouble In paradise	Siren
Fable II	SIngsstar
Gears of War 2	Disgaea 3
Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts	Resistance 2
Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2	SOCOM Confrontation
Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3	Little Big Planet
Kingdom Under Fire Circle of Doom	SingStar Vol.2
Operation Darkness	Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm
Spectral Force 3	Buzz Quiz TV
Zoids Assault	Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
Guilty Gear 2
Scene It? Box Office Smash
Lips
You're in the Movies
Naruto Broken Bond
2009
Halo Wars	Killzone 2
Halo ODST	Infamous
Onechambara Bikini Samurai Squad	Cross Edge
Magnacarta II	Uncharted 2
Forza Motorsport 3	Ratchet and CLank: Crack in Time
Lips Number one Hits	Demon souls
Indie 50 Evolution	Afrika
Race Pro	Katamari Forever
Stocked	Buzz Quiz World
Qubed
2010
Ninety-Nine Nights II	MAG
Lips Party Classics	Eyepet
Crackdown 2	Yakuza 3
Halo Reach	White Knight Chronicles
Morphx	3D Dot Game Heroes
Naval Assault	Gran Tursimo 5
	Modnations Racers
	Trinity Universe
	Atelier RoRora
	Heavy Rain
	God of War 3
	Time Crisis Razing Storm
	Last Rebellion
	John Daly Golf
2011
Gears of War 3	Little Big Planet 2
Forza Motorsport 4	Killzone 3
Otemedus Excellent	SOCOM 4
HALO CE Anniversary	Yakuza 4
	Motorstorm Apocalypse
	Diagaea 4
	Infamous 2
	Ar tonelico Qoga
	Uncharted 3
	Bleach Resurrection
	White Knight Chronicles 2
	Resistance 3
	Trinity Souls
	Atelier Totori
	Ratchet and Clank All 4 one
2012
Halo 4	Twisted Metal
Forza Horizon	Atelier Meruru
Akai Katana	Starhawk
	Time and Eternity
	One Piece Pirate Warriors
	Little Big Planet Karting
	Ratchet and CLank Frontal Assault
	Yakuza Dead Souls
2013
Gears of War Judgement	Ni No Kuni
	Atelier Ayesha
	The Guided Fate Paradox
	God of War Ascension
	TLOU
	Beyond Two Souls
	Tales of Xillia
	Hot SHots Golf 6
	Mugen Souls Z
	Disgaea D2
	One Piece Pirate Warriors 2
	Pupeteer
	Gran Turismo 6
2014
	Atelier Escha & Logy
	Magus
	Tales of Xilia
	Witch and hundred Knights
	DrakenGard 3

[Neon Ignition]

PS3 without even a hint of contest. Starting in 2014 I have to dial back to 2008 to hit a 360 exclusive I'd even remotely care about that wasn't part of the usual trio franchises the console relies on.

[QualityChimp]

360 without even a hint of a contest, for me.

I've sunk hours into the likes of Gotham Racing, Dead Rising, Gears of War, Perfect Dark Zero, Import Tuner, EDF 2017, Crackdown and Katamari.

[Asura]

Gotham Racing,

Microsoft allowing Bizarre to go under was a real shame; I loved their games.

Import Tuner,

This was good? The only one I've played was the Dreamcast one.

Crackdown

Yeah, maybe my early-360 highlight. Really enjoyed it. It showed a bunch of stuff that felt next-gen; the scale of the city, the scale of the action, the 2-player online co-op, but also other things like how it was one of the first console games to really benefit from DLC. We'd had all the "horse armour" crap from Oblivion, and new levels etc. in games were nothing new, but this added new vehicles, new weapons, new features... It was wonderful, really

[Atticus]

The Cave stuff alone gets the 360 a clear win from me. Coming from a period of flirting with a supergun set-up it was like a dream come true.

[buzz909]

I chose an Xbox 360 and was happy with the decision. A lot of dual format releases in the early days were better on 360.

I think that list just shows how similar those 2 consoles were.

The games I would have liked to have played exclsuive to PS3 were Last of Us and the Motorstorm games.

My favourite 360 exclusive was Dead or Alive 4. I still play it now. I also like Deathsmiles, Dead Rising and Crackdown.

[wakka]

As I said in the other thread, I feel like the 360 had an easy lead in terms of exclusives early on.

Dead Rising, Crackdown and Gears of War all blew me away - they were way ahead of what was possible on previous consoles. All the zombies on-screen! All the jumping over skyscrapers! All the magnetising to cover!

By comparison - and I know some people like these games - but I thought Motorstorm, Resistance, Lair, Heavenly Sword etc were all pretty bobbins.

PS3 did have Ridge 7, but I already owned and had loved Ridge 6 from launch, so I wasn't too envious.

Over the course of the next few years though, I feel like the 360 starts to fall away, and PS3 had superb stuff like MGS4, Yakuza 3 through 5, Demon's Souls and Uncharted 2. It also had TLOU which, honestly, I think is probably the most overrated game ever, but was nonetheless something that the Xbox really didn't have an answer to.

In the end, I think the PS3 has the stronger line-up of exclusives. It's a shame Microsoft took their foot off the gas, as in the first 3 years they were really doing a fantastic job of creating exciting new IPs which made good use of the technology.

EDIT: It's not an exclusive - it was kind of a timed one I guess, since it came to PS3 a year or so later - but Oblivion was the greatest thing ever on 360. When I emerged from the sewers my mind was comprehensively blown. What a frickin' awesome game that was.

[Asura]

In the end, I think the PS3 has the stronger line-up of exclusives. It's a shame Microsoft took their foot off the gas, as in the first 3 years they were really doing a fantastic job of creating exciting new IPs which made good use of the technology.

It's easy to do that when you have millions of people paying you a fiver a month (they quoted 8 million in the late 2000s; since then is tricky as they just give "live users" now which includes things like people who created accounts on Windows Phones), on a service with operating costs measured in the thousands.

[wakka]

Yep, but it’s bitten them in the backside big time.

[Neon Ignition]

Thinking about it, the X360 probably does a stronger job of highlighting just how bad the XBO line up has been. It's had 1 Gears, 1 Halo (neither considered that amazingly if we're honest) with Forza doing a lot of the heavy lifting to the point it's had to take a year off. 2019 - It took forever to get Crackdown 3 which, let's be honest, has fun to be had but is pretty much the final nail in a wasted franchise then... Gears 5... it's really painful, like pulling teeth. It's a positive sign of things to come yet still depressing when Microsofts biggest First Party reveal this gen is arguably that it's going to start investing in First Party software in time for next gen

[Team Andromeda]

Nothing beats Ninja Blade or Chromehounds

[Asura]

Nothing beats Ninja Blade or Chromehounds

Yeah, whatever you might say about the PS360 era, Chrome Hounds really stood out as something unique and clever.

[Brad]

Yeah, whatever you might say about the PS360 era, Chrome Hounds really stood out as something unique and clever.

As did Demon's Souls!

[Digfox]

As per the other thread, for me Xbox 360 wins, although I don't think it is particularly one sided either way.

I think Xbox 360 represents Microsoft's most creative and commercial strongest console. And PS3 represents Sony's weakest PlayStation to date (ignoring handhelds). In those first five years some of those MS studios were firing on all cylinders. Before the misdirection and rot of new management begins to set in that culminated in Xbox One. Sony did produce some standout games though.

[dataDave]

Bayonetta may as well have been a 360 exclusive, seeing as the PS3 version was so awful. It was a rushed Sega in-house port after all.