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Originally Posted by Nightengale
The 360 had a wide and strong range of early years exclusives too. Mass Effect, Halo, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Halo, Vesperia, etc. Some went to the PS3 as timed exclusives, but mostly 360 had the huge momentum very early.
Right now? Aside from Halo and Forza, I don't know if they have any other gaming IPs worth a damn. Gears has went down the drain. Even Fable's lost a lot of its early magic.
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Microsoft's attitude towards their Xbox division is very different now than in 2006. Since 2010, they've gutted their game studios and the output has gone down the tubes unless you count Kinect games.
I don't know if they have any real edge going into this war. If there's one thing, ironically... It would be the fact that the Japanese gaming scene hasn't transitioned well into the next-gen HD.
Only the big studios like Square Enix, Konami, Capcom, Bamco & a few others are the ones who's really playing seriously in the next-gen scene... and because these studios also have a strong stake in the western markets, they're more likely to go multi-platform for a majority of their games.
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Originally Posted by Nightengale
As most of the Japanese gaming scene seems content to focus in the 3DS/PSP/Vita market, the "Japan" advantage wouldn't be as strong as it used to be.
... Sony really needs to invest into more Japanese 1st-party studios.
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The PS3 is still a pretty popular development platform. Sony really should put their Japanese studios into better use though - right now they're still developing on PS3 (Rain, Puppeteer).