[360] Microsoft claims to be ahead of Sony in the fresh IP department

[Twigg4075]

Lulz ensue.

http://www.gamesradar.com/todays-news-opposite-world-microsoft-claims-be-better-sony-fresh-new-ip-core-gamers/

I love the "Opposite World" title. Apparently MS president Phil Spencer has been spending a lot of time in the Fine Smokeables thread.

[Tengo Juego]

Oh.

[BrntO4Life]

I read Spencer yesterday saying how MS was going after "quality, not quantity" with its IPs in 2012.

That's fine and all, but when your only two IPs guaranteed to hit in 2012 are Halo and Fable, I'm not sure "quality" is a word you can use. Halo will be Halo and Fable will be Fable, neither of which is an accomplishment at this point.

[SethMode]

This is as unsurprising as it is silly.

[Swarley]

They definitely aren't anymore. Sony is just churning out quality games left and right at this point.

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Did either of them really really an exclusive new IP this past year that was really notable? It seems pretty clear the PS3 exclusives overall exceed the Microsoft ones but at least in recent history it's been all sequels.

[KNUBB]

Too many posts have gone on without the use of

[Leftwich]

I read Spencer yesterday saying how MS was going after "quality, not quantity" with its IPs in 2012.

That's fine and all, but when your only two IPs guaranteed to hit in 2012 are Halo and Fable, I'm not sure "quality" is a word you can use. Halo will be Halo and Fable will be Fable, neither of which is an accomplishment at this point.

As sad as it is to say. Halo is gonna outsell anything Sony puts out this year.

[BrntO4Life]

Did either of them really really an exclusive new IP this past year that was really notable? It seems pretty clear the PS3 exclusives overall exceed the Microsoft ones but at least in recent history it's been all sequels.

That's not really my issue. Halo has been the same, really, since the first one which came out ten years ago.

Uncharted may be the same now as it has always been, but at least that's only five years ago.

As sad as it is to say. Halo is gonna outsell anything Sony puts out this year.

Truth.

[A Tasty Burgerr]

I guess what I'm saying is at this point neither company is while Sony is definitely winning at this point neither company is wowing me by any means with their exclusive IP productions.

Sony struck gold with Infamous, Uncharted, LBP, and Resistance as original and exclusive IPs several years ago but in the recent past neither company has seemingly done squat.

I won't argue that Halo has not changed drastically by any means, but to be fair Sony has released numerous HD collections of PSP and PS2 ports at this point.

[KNUBB]

Even without the HD remakes Sony still put out quite a few exclusives last year. MS put out what Gears and Halo Anniversary(Which if I don't count Sony's remakes then I shouldn't count this)

[SethMode]

I thought the talk was of new IPs, not exclusives? I can't think of any big new IPs (that were exclusives) last year for either off of the top of my head.

I think that that was ATB's point.

The exclusivity talk is silly IMO anyway unless the consumer also works for one of the companies.

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Yes. Sony dominates in exclusives, they both suck at making exclusive new IPs.

[JeremyHight]

Ratchet and Clank and Uncharted are the only exclusives Sony needs and I will buy their next systems. If not for everyone in the world having a 360 so I picked one up to play with them, I would definitely only get a Sony product.

[JBregz]

Sony is killing Microsoft at this point in putting out quality games that can only be played on their console.