Poll: Console Selling Game. Will one exist?

[DoW Lowen]

Yes. I know at least 4 guys including myself that bought the xbox just for Halo 3 when it came out.

Whether it's good or not is irrelevant to hype and popularity of the game.

 

[darth jacen]

I have and have had all the consoles for this Gen and last Gen so I can safely say there were and are some games that if I didn't have the console and it was an exclusive I'd have run and got the console.

SEE:
Halo
KOTOR
Heavy Rain
Fable
Uncharted 2
etc...

 

[HandfulofWolf]

actually I got a PS3 for Uncharted 2. So I'll have to say yes.

 

[Kyber]

just release new call of duty only to xbox and BOOM! xboxes will be bought

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Final Fantasy 13 would probably be a PS3 seller, but they put it on the 360 aswell.
Also, the metroid prime trilogy for the wii.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

Someone I know recently bought a PS3 for Heavy Rain as well as Final fantasy. Then I told her ff wasn't an exclusive. It didn't bother her.

Opinion states that it's better on the PS3 tho, so i suppose if you have the option a ps3 would be the way you wanted to play it.

 

[Henry Michel Proust]

For a long long time I was quite indecisive which one to buy, but after Heavy Rain launch I think I'm gonna for PS3. If that can be applied to selling game subject, then yes, I think it exists.

 

[jtesauro]

I don't see why not. If you not buying a console for its exclusive titles then why are you buying it?

To me it has to be more than "one" game. I bought XBOX over PS3 because of Mass Effect, and most of its XBLA titles.
If I can afford both one day maybe I will get a ps3 as well.

Besides there will never be one game that EVERYONE just agrees is the game to own and makes people buy a console.

Besides I'm assuming that game already exists, and it's Starcraft 2, and the console is a PC.

There are differences in consoles beyond their exclusive or killer app titles. I've got both a PS3 and a 360 at home, and if it's an option, I always play it on the 360 instead for a few reasons.

1) I like the controller better. This is of course HUGELY personal and will vary.

2) Xbox Live is just a better online service, and I know far more people on it then I do on PSN. So playing Borderlands on the PS3 was a very lonely experience, compared to the network I have on the 360.

3) Development cycles. Developing games for the PS3 has proven more difficult than for the 360, which tends to lead to longer times, delays, etc. Examples are Fallout 3, Dragon Age, all games that got pushed back compared to the 360 counterpart. For the same price in the game, it's an inconvenience I'd rather not deal with.

OP: I won't even say one game was killer for me, it was Bioware in general. Knights of the Old Republic prompted me to get an Xbox, Mass Effect 1 and 2 being developed for the 360 made me know I wanted to stick with it. Call me a fanboy if you will, but they're my favorite games and I go where they go.

 

[GeekFury]

God of War 3 is tempting me to get a PS3 even though it'd be the ONLY game I'd want for the PS3.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Well... when I heard that they were making Resident Evil 5, I had to buy a current-gen console. So I got a 360 just so I could play RE5. You can imagine my disappointment.

Also, I upgraded my PC so I could get Dragon Age Origins. Well, that and so I could play Left 4 Dead 2 on high.

 

[Artina89]

A friend of mine bought the PS3 for Killzone 2 and inFamous.

 

[Tuddle]

I want an x-box
just so I can play:

Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Dead-rising
Dead-rising 2
Crackdown
Crackdown 2

 

[regallmighty]

there are times when i have wanted to buy a ps3 for just one game such as God of war 3 when it comes out

 

[Manhattan2112]

My friend and I were having a conversation about differences of PS3 and Xbox games/capabilities/online, when he brought up an old, dusty topic:

"Do you think there will ever be a game, so impressive, that it will cause gamers to go out and buy a separate (PS3 or Xbox) system, just to play that ONE game?"

I laughed myself tears. There's just no way.

Then I remembered The Escapist forums.

"Yea, maybe."

The reason I bring this up, is because, in my mind, a Blu-Ray Final Fantasy 7 would cause RPG fans to spend green paper faster then Enron lost it. But, it's just my opinion.

Do you think there's a possibility of such a legendary game? Is there one currently that answers my friends question?

Deadrising did it for me. I had a PS3, but I had heard word of Deadrising a while ago, and I just couldn't take it anymore - I had to run out and get this Zombie game. Guess what: It was the best. Ever.

 

[kiwi_poo]

my brother got a ps3 just to play mag

 

[LeonLethality]

Knowing R&C would be on it, I got myself a PS3 (also because I am a borderline PS fanboy but I also love Nintendo so I am a heretic!)

 

[fix-the-spade]

Do you think there's a possibility of such a legendary game? Is there one currently that answers my friends question?

http://www.gamezaph.com/covers/9168.jpg

This generation, probably not. Console sellers tend to come early in a system's lifespan (see: Mario Galaxy, Tomb Raider, GT3:A Spec), now both have libraries big enough that one game probably wouldn't be enough to tip the scales.

Although Wii Fit shifted a metric butt load of Wiis.

 

[Echo136]

Well if it wasnt for Halo, there wouldnt even be an Xbox 360. I know I bought an Xbox for Halo CE and only own like 3 other games for the console.