2011 was an interesting year for exclusives. All three lists are dominated by PSN, XBLA and WiiWare titles, but each system had at least a couple of true triple A retail exclusives.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Here we go again...
The downloadable games have really saved MS for the past 2 years. It's been the only real bright spot on an otherwise terrible 2 years for the 360.
If I were to pinpoint where things went wrong, it would have to be fan reaction for E3 2010. The overwhelming support for MS's terrible E3 was absurd. Flash forward to E3 2011, and you still have people defending a console that has all but given up trying to please the diehard defenders. The sooner gamers stop defending mediocrity, the sooner MS will pick up the ball it dropped in 2009 and get back to pumping out solid exclusives. A few million XBL cancellations should do it, but gamers are weak. That will never happen.
This year was a lot better overall for 360 gamers thanks to the insane amount of multi-platform titles, but good luck with that next year. You can't depend on multiplats every year and MS has nothing in the tank aside from Halo 6.
As for the Wii, They were in a great position to have the Wii live on past the launch of the WiiU, but with a year like this...probably not. You can't hit a homerun in 2010 with a bunch of Epic Mickeys and DKCRs, then fall flat with only 2 major releases in an entire year. Shame on you Nintendo.
I think Sony more than met everyones expectations. Another phenominal year for Sony with a year like 2011, it's hard to imagine them doing any better for 2012...then they announce a brand new IP from ND, a Jak collections which surely means there's a new Jak in the works, Starhawk, TLG....2012 will probably end up like 2011. 2011 was an awesome year for PS3, even with the external interference and non-stop media hate. Sony may not have franchises with 25 year anniverseries or a huge advertising deal with Disney and Pepsi, but they do have a s***load of inhouse devs that know that a console is only as good as the games it plays.
I don't understand, and I face palm so hard, when the press just refuses to ACCEPT that 360 has had a horrible year in exclusives. The closing comment said: "All three had some great exclusives this year" Really? 360 had 2 exclusives! If they take into consideration the Kinect games there are more, but why does 360 is praised for going casual, but when the PS3 has a casual game is crap?
I hate this double standard that has been going on this generation. I would ignore it completely, but is also affecting developers and what type of games they make. The press has been the worst thing that happened to gaming this generation. They lack consistency and morality.
2006 or 2007 was clearly a 360 year. It had great exclusives and it was clearly a winner. The press praised that and bashed the PS3 to death because of it, but now that the PS3 is clearly the winner (and I would arguer that last year too) they just can'y give credit to it without trying to find a way to make the 360 look good for once (when it clearly wasn't good)?