Over the past few months, Megatonik.com began to notice something. They have noticed a sharp decline in the amount of platforming games released for many next-generation consoles, most notably for the Xbox 360. While the Playstation 3 has great platformers like Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, and Wii owners will be blessed this week by Super Mario Galaxy, the Xbox 360 has nothing of the sort. This is quite surprising because, with such solid platforming games like Psychonauts and Blinx: The Time Sweeper for the Xbox, one can only ask, "Where have all the platformers gone?"
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i don't know why they haven't really made many platformers. They had blinx. A psyconaughts game would be excellent if they made it.
Banjo-tooie sequel for the 360 though will be pretty good.
Banjo-tooie it better look as good as
Ratchet and Clank
Quality>Quantity. Great for them.
Mario and Ratchet for example.
I think you can call Uncharted and Assassin's Creed as platformers as well, although they have a heavy action/adventure side to them.
if rare can deliver then banjo 3 will be a great platformer, but i do agree platform games seem to be MIA.