Durkin: Xbox 360′s first-party titles are “superior to our competition’s”

Not really, I’m currently selling my 360 so he can imagine how much “superior” 1st party titles are.
Overheating consoles, non-rechargable controllers, kiddy dashboard designed for 4-year-olds, crappy menus don’t help either.

@52, Many will argue that the 360s menu is better than the XMB, I personally agree with you though, it’s too slow & clunky, even the in-game guide, a much simpler interface, is slower than the in-game XMB.

The new model doesn’t really suffer from overheating issues & I do agree that it’s stupid in this day & age that the standard controller requires AA batteries. Oh how I remember when all my portable entertainment ate dozens of them monthly… in the 20th century.

I think Sony’s in the best position for our demographic next gen, they’ve proven that they support us & openly welcome new online experiences either through MMO games like MAG or Dust 514 or UGC as in LBP & inFamous 2-which I’ve no doubt could expand to 3rd party games if they didn’t also have to deal with XBL.

he b trollin

Ofc, the first party title from MS sell more. They have Halo, Forza and Alan Wake.
But then on the PS3, you have Resistance, Uncharted, InFamous, Motor Storm,God of War, Gran Turisimo, Rachet & Clank, Killzone and Little Big Planet. How stupid can MS be to say something shitty? PS3 has more AAA+ IPs then MS. And thats why Sony cant sell millions of each IP, because of saturation…

I know he works for Microsoft and he HAS to say things like this, but I still can’t help but laughing.

It is absolutely ridiculous to claim that your games are the best when it is such an subjective thing, and when objectively metacritic says you play second fiddle to Nintendo. Try harder MS.

Haahahahaahahahahahahahahahaaahahahaa… ahaha… haa…

Oh, wait! They’re being serious?

Hahaaahahahahaaahahahahahahahaha!

Look, Micrsoft, come back when you have your own Ratchet & Clank. Then we’ll talk.

And I say that mostly as a PC/handheld gamer.

*goes back to playing Solatorobo, a DS game which is more interesting than most the games he’s played in the past couple of years.*

Personal preference. Thats what it all boils down to. One mans trash is another mans treasure and all that. This Durkin guy is the xbox CFO so I suppose smack talk like that is part of his job but at this point people like that should know better. -1 for Mr Durkin im afraid.

It’s so obviously and blatantly untrue that it makes you wonder – why say that at all? Compared to PS3 and Wii 360′s first party is just…
Just sad.

@54 i think there are more in that list Starhawk, Twisted metal, The Last Guardian and i’m sure Quantic dream is in the works of a new ps3 title

In the number of products sold, maybe he has a point. But as far as quality, that’s just about an outright lie. Make something that isn’t a shooter or a Kinect game I’ll never play, then come back and talk to me. Is it just me, or does it seem like Microsoft’s starting to get a really high opinion of itself?

Ya know I read all of the comments here and I have to say I think most of ya are worn. Of course an opinion can be “wrong” and still be right if ya follow me.

What i am saying here is that on the whole this entire generation of consoles aren’t worth a hill of beans. This is the best time to be a PC scince the days of C64.

Give me a SNES, PS1, PS2, or a Dreamcast.

Today we get unpolsihed glitchy buggy games that lock out 20-40% of the content for future DLC sales(and most of them are codes for content already embeded on the disc). Too many(way too many) OMP shooters, they have become the easy route to millions. Every pub wants their own Halo or CoD. Hype sells more games then quality. We are drowning in franchises. Every game platform feels the need to change/extend/apeal to none gamers. Some fo you actualy think there is a core gamer demographic(hint they died with the Dreamcast). Now get ready for Kinect and Move(doesn’t it bother you that your core games platforms – sony/ms – have both attempted to mimic what the one system that most of you hate and make fun of already does? Need further proof your core gamer club is only a name? We get set top boxes that want you to be able to watch TV and stream as much/maybe more then actualy play games. EA is retiring their sports servers 18months after the games launch to force you buy the new ones inorder to keep playing online. GameStop and their ilk have such a stranglehold on the market with second hand sales that pubs are looking into other forms of media distribution like Streaming/Cloud/digital sales – don’t fool yourself, you know that one is dead on.

I could go on and on. I iknow I lumped all of that in a mess w/o sentence and breaking points. Because that is what this gen is, one big rotten mess.

There are a few bright spots this gen. Like Sony getting a wake up call – hey people don’t wanna work two jobs to be able to afford your system after all. MS can’t buy talent. Rare fell apart and it was let Bungie go, or the talent leaves. RIP Bizzare. Nintendo found out that while women of all ages enjoy video games, they don’t often buy many games. And Nintendo discovered that 3rd parties matter after all. XBLA got good this gen, very good. Steam has become legend.

But really on the whole, nothing this gen has matched the magic I felt when I played Super Metriod, SNES Zelda, Super Mario World, FFIV, Crono Triger or Tekken, Ridge Racer, Castlevania SOTN, Or Gauntlet Dark Legacy, Champions of Norath, or MVC/2, Grandia II, Phantasy Star Online, Speed Devils Online, Armada, Record Of Lodus Wars, Mars Matrix, Canon Spike, and Giga Wing.

I am so tired of this gen, I don’t have the words. Maybe its just my age, maybe not. But games have grown tiresome and it is often a chore to stay interested. I have enough of what I enjoy this gen to keep me playing. But none of it is an Uncharted, God of war, Gears of war, Halo, or COD.

I play the little stuff like Pinball FX2. Castle Crashers. Plants VS Zombies. Fat Princess. And any number of gems that none ever seems to mention when talking about great games. Maybe you should change the names from great games to proven franchises. There is a big difference. Just look at PopCap PvZ is a great game, and drasticly different from Pegel, Zuma, or anything else they publish. Yet every CoD is the same game with different tweaks.

So go ahead, debate the best of todays games, call them exclusive if it makes you feel better. But in the end the only ones calling them great and best ever are the one too young to know any better.

and just fyi, this rant wasn’t aimed at anyone in particular. Just mussings of gamer feeling outdated and out of touch.

kz2 single player is better than any halo game on xbox 360, while killzone 3′s multiplayer is better than reach or halo odst multiplayer. Both resistance 1 and 2 had a better campaign mode than any halo on xbox 36o! Halos game design sux, playing it made me want to throw up from all the dizziness. Why cant u xbox fanboys agree that Halo used to be great on xbox, and went downhill since the first game?!

@62: Are you feeling better now? o.o Because you sure seem to have needed that.

Although i enjoyed a some games this gen (Mostly RDR), i still think that this gen has not found it’s perfect volume of games. For me, there is still not enough justification for why the PS3 and 360 need to exist. And we are already talking about the next gen. This really pisses me off.

I had the most fun with the PS3 this gen, but i wouldn’t even consider comparing this gen to the previous one. I have a shitload of videogames for my PS2, all of them still great. I don’t have that with this gen. I seriously don’t.

Games like Hulk Ultimate Destruction. Way of the Samurai 1/2. Persona 3/4. Shadow of the Colossus. Metal Gear Solid 2. I have so many games, i can barely keep track. I don’t even have half of the amount on my PS3. Not because there so few games, but because there are so few worth purchasing.

Yes, i’m well aware that Prototype is like Hulk, but it’s not as good as Hulk. I’m also aware that Way of the Samurai 3 was released on PS3/360, but it’s not as good as Way of the Samurai 1/2. Yes, i’m also aware that Metal Gear Solid 4 exists, but it’s not as good as MGS2.

And where the fuck is my Vagrant Story sequel? That was my favorite PS1 Game of them all.

I finished Resistance 2 yesterday. I was waiting for the game to become good, then suddenly i completed it.

How this game could get more than a 5 out of 10 is absolutely ridiculous. What a complete turd. Seriously. Set in the 50′s, with Helicopters and C4. Stuff that didn’t exist around that time. At all. Not even on Blueprints. Why even choose that period if you don’t give a shit about the timeline?

Enemy spawning that would put Call of Duty to shame. A story that has nothing to do with your actions. A story not even worth mentioning to be honest.

Consider this year … The Witcher 2 is the only game so far that was worth spending bucks on it.

The problem with most games this Gen is, that Publishers take less risks. They want to sell more units. They look at the numbers. What games sell good? Call of Duty you say? Let’s make our game like Call of Duty.

And by doing that they lose their identity. I think just now developers are actually trying to go away from that route. Try to be unique again.

@64, What do you mean by ‘different’? Every ‘different’ game that I’ve played this gen has been pretty mediocre, whether it by different story or gameplay mechanics. Why should these publishers take risks? Look at the best selling games this gen, Mario Kart, Super Mario Galaxy, Call of Duty, Halo, Gran Turismo-all with little-to-no changes over their predecessors.

I haven’t used the word ‘different’ in my comment.

“@62: Are you feeling better now? o.o Because you sure seem to have needed that.”

lol

I guess I did need that, and yea I do feel a bit better now

Its just that a lot of time I read posts about the greatness of this or that and am left wondering what the hell those people saw in said games to begin with.

@67, Personal perspectives, mate.

@Young Zero You do know the first blueprint of the helicopter was in the 1500′s right? and, actually the successful modern heli design was in 1948 so it’s not hard to believe in 1950′s mid time they had heli’s.

And, seeing how helicopters we’re used in WW2 and, that was mostly prototypes. I don’t see any conflict with Resistances execution

Oh yeah, and plastic explosives was invented in 1875

@YoungZero, I also don’t remember mutants annihilating human kind-point is, this game isn’t aiming to be scientifically correct & why should it? Video games are a form of entertainment-not normally containing scientific accuracy. Also, something as simple as Wikipedia could prove you wrong about helicopters.

funny how people write novels about meaningless shit like console wars

Well the point is they were actaully very accurate. While leaving room for imagination and innovation. Everyone knows technology advances the fastest during times of war. And, in Resistance it’s a non-stop war. with 1950′s man coming into contact with superior alien technology. I think resistance executed beautifully as a sci-fi epic in terms of story. It’s makes more since then the space cowboys branded spartan with aliens speaking english by the 2nd and third installment.

A lot of people just hate on resistance because it’s Sony’s take on the space invasion. If you like sci-fi epics then both should still be good to you. They both take from 2 completely different angles. And, should be appreciated for their seperate takes. Just to many anal halo fans that don’t like something different and vice versa for the resistance fans.

Just an opinion, but MS had a lead on first party titles several years ago that they have since let slip tremendously.

@69: The helicopters as seen in the game are being used for transportation of soldiers and MEDEVAC. Those have first been seen in the Vietnam war. Before that they could pretty much only be used for scout missions.

Also: Yes i’m well aware that Plastic Explosives existed before, but not C4. C3 MAYBE, but not C4. It’s little details like these that pissed me off.

They specifically have chosen this time period, but with such a time period comes restriction.

@70: See above. You might read the first few sentence in a Wiki article, but you should have payed attention to details.

The above information I gave you was towards the fact that what they were aiming for was 90% possible that because of the situation they created was to accelerate the technological growth. It’s more then plausible to make it where the weapons, vehicles, and tactics involve within a short amount of time.

I can see where your point is but, hopefully you can see from mine as well.

I like console wars.