Microsoft: “You just don’t know about it”

wohoo | February 08, 2008 | News | XBOX 360 Company

A NY Times reporter voiced concern that Microsoft's games line-up for the year isn't as good as last year. Microsoft responded that despite how things may appear from the outside, their games line-up for 2008 is stacked and that we "just don’t know about it".

In a DICE Summit interview to the NY Times, Microsoft’s Shane Kim was asked about the company’s 2008 line-up. The NYT reporter pointed out how Microsoft’s games line-up seems to pale in comparison to what the company had to offer last year - Mass Effect, BioShock, Halo 3, PGR4, to name a few exclusives. And Mr. Kim’s answer is an interesting one.

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5 thumbs!
iLLmatic | February 09, 2008

Well you might want to let people 'know about it' before they start picking up PS3's, because that overly expensive Foreman grill is looking much, much better than it did yesterday.
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DragoniteBallZ | February 09, 2008

I don't know what people are thinking saying the lineup won't be as good.

XBOX360 has plenty of great titles on the 2008+ line up. Maybe not as much hype as the games last year but surely looking to be much better.

Gears of War 2, GTA4, Ninja Gaiden 2, Halo Wars, Banjo Kazooie 360, Splinter Cell Conviction, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Fable 2, EndWar, Condemned 2, Resident Evil 5, Guitar Hero 4, Soul Caliber 4, Brothers in Arms Hells Highway, Army of Two.
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dmf_dynasty | February 09, 2008

Yeah, I'd like to know about it. I'm contemplating buying a 360 and the breaking point is exclusives coming out this year. If I don't know about it, then I'm not buying it.
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shaka | February 09, 2008

I dont see anything worth buying for the x360 in 2008,
the only game that looks like it could be the only AAA for the system alan wake its not even exclusive its a PC port.
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redneonfish | February 09, 2008

Some of what Dragonite said are multiplatform anyway. Regardless of exclusives Microsoft will be fine I reckon. Although Sony's exclusives look alot more tempting: MGS4, GT5, LBP, KZ2, Home, Resistance 2
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  Ekou | February 09, 2008
  
  That would depend on who you ask. Quite frankly, I would take every 360 exclusive over the PS3s, aside from MGS4.
  
  It's down to personal taste to be quite honest.
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  Seproth | February 11, 2008
  
  Resistance and MGS4 are all I care about.
  
  The first Killzone was bad. So I'm not sold on the second one at all.
  
  GT is a simulation racer which takes a certain type of racing game fan to get into. So really it's only a benefit to those people.
  
  MGS and Resistance looks great though.
  
  But I loved Fable and Condemned. Brothers in Arms has been good all along. Ninja Gaiden and Resident Evil are pretty much sure hits.
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Red 9 | February 09, 2008

I've seen the 360's upcoming new releases on Gamespot, and I'll be 100% honest; even without some games announced, it still has 15+ games coming for it in the next three months than the PS3 does. In fact, PS3 only has one exclusive between now and MGS4, and that's Haze.

M$ is hiding titles and its list is still longer than the PS3's. We PS3 owners have to wait until Fall 08 to mid 2009 before we see any exclusives really worth our time.
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Existenz | February 09, 2008

No matter what Microsoft say their sales for the Xbox 360 say it all, in a year that housed Halo 3 and Bioshock they could only sell 7.7 million units (2007), their biggest game couldn't even lead the 360 to sell more than the Playstation 3 in 2007 which had next to nothing, "We just don't know about it" because we just aren't buying it regardless.
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Final Blade | February 09, 2008

The only game worth buying a 360, for me personally, is Ninja Gaiden 2. I could care less about any game other than that cause i love NG series. Maybe Dead or Alive may spark my interesting as well. But most of the games that looks good for the 360 is multi-platform such being DMC4 and GTA4 which i will get for the PS3 since its technically there game.

But theres no doubt that they are keeping some titles on the DL, iLLmatic makes a great point though.
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Dance Floor Killah | February 09, 2008

MS always hides titles. We'll just have to wait and see what happens this year.
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  Bri | February 10, 2008
  
  Definitely true. Microsoft won't have their arms crossed, that isn't like them. The psychic who can magically tell if companies will fare better or worse for the year in February needs to learn that anything can happen, especially in the electronic age when things can change quickly.