“Forza 3 has some of the worst graphics i’ve seen on ANY console, past or present.”

Forza 3 has some of the BEST graphics in any game on any console to date. Compared to the recently released GT5 Time Trial demo, Forza 3 looks even better when you realise it looks better than GT5 which has had 5 years of development time.

Gears of War and Halo 3 are both sitting pretty on 94/100 on metacritic, whereas uncharted 2 is on 96 – hardly ‘no 360 exclusive comes close’. also, bioshock was exclusive for the first 12 months (and said it would be exclusive forever), and its sitting on the same score as U2.

How could you say that 360 exclusives are aimed at women and children? Halo? no, its aimed at hardcore gamers, which generally are not women or children. Gears of War? that MA15+ rating says ‘women and children only’ does it? Forza? nope. Splinter Cell Conviction? nope. Crackdown? nope. and so on and so on. The PS3 is the console with children and women aimed exclusives – singstar, eyepet, ratchet and clank, jak and daxter, etc. even uncharted 2 aimed more at casual gamers since its so ridiculously one-dimensional that even a toddler could finish the game.

Sales figures don’t make a game great, just shows its been marketed better. With the right media hype and spin, a big company can sand to the Arabian’s and convince them it is gold. Sony and Microsoft are different in the way in which they market their exclusives.

Microsoft have very few first party exclusive developers in comparison to Sony. They take a few games and pour all of their marketing funds into those few games or as it appears in this generation, two of those games are Gears of War and Halo franchises. Relentless media barrages of ads featuring those games were created pre and after their launch telling everyone that they are better than God and nothing could possibly be better, because of this those games sold big. In comparison to the amount spent on advertising in the long run for a game like Gears 2 selling between 6 and 7 million world wide, this only yields about as much profit as say a Sony exclusive selling 4 million as Sony has spent FAR less in marketing and a little more in research and development than Microsoft.

Sony has far more exclusive titles under their publishing which is why their marketing budget is more widely based and their top exclusives may only sell 3 to 4 million. It is stupid to call this unsuccessful as Sony pride themselves on variety and choice of games with it ranging from shooters to family games, this is simply different to the microsoft tactics of plugging the hell out of two macho shooter games to make everyone think they are liquid crack.

Now tell me honestly 23juniors. Do you prefer better quality and more choice in games which on the whole customers and reviewers love (metacritic don’t lie :P) or would you rather have slim variation and choice between a few games which are behind the times in quality compared to the competition and are only popular as they are because the company selling you the games paid ALOT of money to brainwash you into thinking they are bigger than Jesus? I know what i would rather have…

I have played Halo 3 and Gears 1 & 2 extensively and honestly Halo’s multiplayer is good but the single player is rather dull for my tastes and Gears is just a dreadfully average shooter with a poor story line and single player and an even worse multiplayer component which tries to make you think that their ‘Horde mode’ is a brand new idea when essentially it is a copy.

ive played un2 it has a GREAT Single player that borrowed alot of great gameplay elements from other great games however lets be honest it cant compete against halo 3, gears or cod when it comes to online multiplayer! in 2 years not as many people will be playing uncharted online compared to halo3 now which is two years old now, LETS BE FREAKING HONEST!

IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME CHECK OUT VG CHARTZ FOR WORLD SALES OF XBOX 360 GAMES VS PS3 GAMES ALSO CHECH OUT GAMES ONLY PUBLISHED BY SONY OR MICROSOFT. PLUS CHECK OUT METACRITICS FOR 360 MARKS VS PS3 MARKS – IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME BELIEVE THE FREAKING FACTS!