Halo 4 wont dominate this year, it will be COD again seems cod has been doing it year after year no matter what games come out.

for promoting 3rd party games more so than exclusives. I am glad they do that. they have done a great job of building 3rd party relations. It is the 3rd parties that are the majority of game developers/publishers.

Without them then you really have nothing. MS has treated the 360 like Windows. Building a platform that is there for any developer to want to make software for it.

Oddly enough, they have really taken a page from Sony and how sony built up relations when they were new to this market so many years ago.

@ darthv72 and EvilDead360: Yeah, but those same exclusives are on PS3, while the PS3 will be showing over 20 extra exclusives. I don't know if MS was being "smart", I just think they had no 1st party's to show (except Halo) so they gave us filler (via 3rd party) which can be already found on PS3, and soon to come on Wii-U. Man, u Xbox guys make any excuse to support MS, even though they wallet-shank you with Xbox live, give u no new games to actually play on it (the number 1 played game on live is MW2--lol), and instead they use your hard earned money to make apps instead of new games. Yeah, MS sure is "smart"--at taking your money, and running with it lol. No matter my personal feelings on MS, it's just a fact that their screwing their customers over.

As for MS treating 3rd party's well--I don't think so. Sony has shown more love, and has stretched the boundaries for their rules, to allow games that otherwise would have been rejected due to the rules--like the free mmoFPS coming out for ps3 this year called DUST 514 and it's cross platform online connection to PC's EvE online. Something that the idiots at MS still refuse to allow on their platform (even though EvE runs on Windows -_-). Plus I don't see ANY 3rd party exclusives/company's that were so impressed with MS, that they walked away from Sony or Nintendo. MS hasn't been getting any special love or treatment from 3rd party's, no matter how much MS tries to get in bed with them (aka paying them). Nobody loves a tramp for long.