@RedFive:

Your mistaken. Nearly all PS2/PS1 games are backwards compatible. I got my PS3 fairly recently just this last December and my PS2 games work fine with it. Or are talking about the temporary null in the sell of the 80 gig PS3?

Judge

@otimus:

Actually there are 2,571 PS2 games last time i checked which was fairly recently. not sure about the original PS. There is a list of PS2 games on wikipedia, I would provide you with a link but I can't get the site to open right now for some reason.

So according to the article there will be over 500 xbox 360 games released between now and June? lol talk over saturation. "What? Recession coming? That means quanitity over quality is perfect" lol. Either MS is planning on pulling what Atari did in Xmas 1983 or that number includes original xbox games. in which case MS may be reaching 1,000 but Sony is reaching roughly around 3,500. Perhaps they are counting games proportional to how good they are in which case Bio shock, Halo 3, and Mass Effect would quickly fill the gap among a few other games.

Judge

@baked ham: If that's the case, then PS3 *had* those games, but new PS3 owners don't have back compat -- so they don't have access to them!

RedFive

@Pezdispenser:

I'm of the exact same opinion. I like the 360, but love me some PC.

Strangelove

@Frey: It was in relation to the "constrained supply" excuse given by Microsoft.

Anemone

Is there a list for us to see?

cello

1000 games? Looks like I should invest in a 360 now since that's around the time I invested in a new PS2.

Americo

@Most Wanted:

More like around 2,000 for the PS1 only BC, and around 4,000 for PS2/PS1 BC :x

There's a lot of PS2 and PS1 games!

Even vastly more if you count all regions.

otimus

ESBR list 7270 PC games. This not include the opensource and indie games, and older games..., etc:

game platform e-peen metter

tei

@Most Wanted: ESRB only rates games available in the US. I'm not saying there aren't any duplicates, but don't forget the US is NOT the only country.

peacefuloutrage

@baked ham: I think this list includes games that are released in other regions like Cricket games and The Idolmaster. Even if they aren't available here, they are still on the 360.

peacefuloutrage

@brooza: How not? the 40GB still plays all PS1 games.

lbartley

@Most Wanted: The PS3 doesn't have 1000 games any more though

brooza

@Anemone: I think you mean the wii on that one, I see the 360 on store shelves all the time, I mean seriously a retarded person could find one.

Frey

@Most Wanted: Because 360 is the hottest thing since sliced wasabi and you're lucky to find one anywhere in the world that's not already purchased and paid for. You'll likely have to murder someone just to get one.

Anemone

ESRB lists 457 games for Xbox 360 (this would include XBLA). Add to this your Xbox games that are BC and that is your 1000.

PS3 had +1000 games out of the box and +2000 if you bought a PS2 BC model.

Wii has over +1000 already if you include Wii/VC and GC games.

Why is this news again.

Most Wanted

@Vecha: True. That was my bad. Yeah I could have gone else where. He is still a troll though.

Balance_In_Life (PSN)

@Balance_In_Life (PSN):

While I do not condone his message...making a remark that is directly opposite what he says doesn't make you sound any better than him...especially with "PSN" in your name...

Anyway congrats MS...even if the number sounds fishy.

These past two years in gaming have been great!

Vecha

Seems to me they're counting all region releases, XBLA games, XBOX 1 Arcade games, XBOX 1 games, and such.

otimus

@SigmundTheSeaMonster: you are so righteous

Playstation

@ShaggE: You're wrong. No other way to put it. EA's crap vs quality ratio is much higher than a company like Activision or Ubisoft. Let's look at their 2007 releases (and as a note I'm only going to cover Xbox 360 releases because it's the only system I had all year long that I can give an accurate judgment on):

For EA Sports, you have:

NCAA Football
NCAA Basketball
Madden
NBA Live
NBA Street Homecourt
FIFA
NHL
NASCAR
skate
Tiger Woods

While I'm not one to judge Tiger Woods, NASCAR, NBA Live, FIFA, or NHL as I despise the sports, I have read nothing but positive reviews about all but NBA Live. I know from personal experience skate was amazing (and most people who played it beyond 5 minutes will tell you the same), Madden and NCAA (while for some they may just be "another copy of last year's game") for those of us who enjoy football games, they're not bad just they're for FOOTBALL FANS. If you're not one of them... then don't knock the games just don't buy them.

Now how about their non-sports division?

Boom Boom Rocket
Medal of Honor Airborne
The Simpsons Game
Def Jam Icon
Command and Conquer 3
Harry Potter OOTP
Wing Commander Arena
The Orange Box
Need for Speed Pro Street
Rock Band

I think I covered them all, but regardless I think the point is obvious: they make very minimal shovelware. None of those games are completely awful, they're all definately playable, and there's only one flippin' movie game.

If you need me to do our good buddies at Activision or Ubisoft let me know, but just remember, one rotten tomato out of a group of 20 doesn't make the entire crop bad.

Lemming To The Sea

eh, are they counting xbox live games?

JackTretton

@icepick314:
might be possible, if it's a crappy one.

djHEAT

1000 games? whaa? Is there a complete list of 360 games somewhere I can veiw? I probably only heard of like 100+ something games. Wikipedia has like 453 games listed for 360, but what and where are the other 547 games? Its most likely a bunch of foreign games we never heard of.

JollyGoodChap8

Is this including the Burger King games? I certainly HOPE so.

MisterSleep

If the game is discounted (no way in Hell but...) let it be Castle Crashers! Or Left 4 Dead!

Xiedo

According to [en.wikipedia.org], there are 276 games out or coming out before Q3. Do these include XBLA titles? I don't know, I don't own a 360. But I'm calling bullshit.

wicko

@Lemming To The Sea: I bought every Harry Potter game on release, all for PS2. Disappointed by the first, liked the second, loved the third, despised the fourth, sent the fifth to the bowels of hell since all it was was a giant fetch quest with no reqard other than playing as a real wizard.

Amazon_Chris

huh.... so I own 1.3% of all Xbox 360 games?

Neat?

NoFunShogun

@Wyld: Likewise.

ShaggE

@baked ham: I was actually asking the question, but yea, it doesn't look like that was Microsoft's comment.

c-lin' Fanboy

Meh, I won't begrudge them for padding their numbers... I'll begrudge the fact that it isn't Dead Rising 2.

Part-Time-Viking

@c-lin' Fanboy: Though now that I look at it again, I don't believe Microsoft said that themselves. I think it's just the source website that made that claim that it's the first next-gen console to reach that milestone. Either way, it's BS.

baked ham

@c-lin' Fanboy: If you click the link, yes, it does.

baked ham

For a while I thought the 360 is getting AIR.

LianYL

Quantity over Quality is Microsoft!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

1000th game coming?

HALO 4 CONFIRMED!!!

c-lin' Fanboy

@Crash McCloud:

Not that I should reply to a troll, but to date 332 PS3 games have been released

So kindly STFU :)

LittleBigPlaneteer

@Crash McCloud: your so funny

Rockwallaby

@Lemming To The Sea: You don't buy up companies to pool all of their thinking power, you do it to eliminate competition and take franchises. That's been what's expected of them since they started rehashing madden games, anyways.

rdj

@dexterr: yes i forgot to edit my text and so i made mistake

dexterr

@[KU]Shindokie:Pon Pon Pata Pon!: I'm not kidding, Hellboy is marked for a June release.
It would be rather embarrassing if that really was the game. Please don't let that happen.

Erwin

There 234 retail games in north america for the 360 and 123 arcade releases out for the xbox live arcade.

MS is clearly padding their numbers by counting all the regions together and/or counting limited editions/platinum hits versions as separate games.

Jcnet

@ShaggE:
Hate the consumers, not the company for taking advantage of them?

I hate both.

Wyld

@CanaryWundaboy: I've only played 19, but @ATT: I've had my Elite since it launched and I haven't had any trouble with it.

SycoKiller

ˆthink Nintendo & Sony PlayStation has already beat that score. I think Japan won't get the 1000 game from xbox. whose going to buy all 1000 games which could realy suck. maybe 1000 is an error which is soppose to be 100 omstead. Well i don'tt care about xbox at all because some of those will end up on pc, example halo 3 or bioshock pc.

dexterr

@Lemming To The Sea: Of course every company is out to make money. But EA is the biggest Shovelware peddler in the mainsteam game industry, as far as I know. And when shovelware sells, it gives a lot of developers the idea that they can half-ass games too.

ShaggE

@Lemming To The Sea: *would not believe that EA would buy a company only to ruin it.

I corrected the sentence only to turn it into a double negative... I'm such an idiot.

Lemming To The Sea

@ShaggE: I listed two of the main offenders.

Then again, I guess it's possibly my perspective that a company who's in it... zomg big shocker... to make money isn't a bad thing. I still am a firm believer that EA buying companies isn't nearly as bad a thing as everyone is making it out to be, because I think that with a larger bank account behind the studios they're buying up they could do amazing things.

Remember, there's SEVERAL reports that since buying up Bioware nothing has changed at the company due to the dirty dirty fingers of EA now being firmly lodged up their collective ass as gamers like to think. And besides that, why the hell would you invest a large amount of money into a company like Pandemic or Bioware if you wanted to just shift them towards the next Need for Speed or Madden game? And also, what's to say they would make games like GTA or Mass Effect a yearly deal? They've never done it in the past, and anyone with half a brain would not believe that EA would never buy a company only to ruin it.

Lemming To The Sea

@baked ham: Does it say that it is going to be the first to reach that number?

c-lin' Fanboy

Ive only owned about 35. :/

CanaryWundaboy

@lionkitten: I agree that there's spin involved here. I'd be OK with it if they didn't claim that the 360 "will become first next-gen console to reach" 1000 games. If they're spinning it to include backwards compatible games, then that's just a lie. PS3 had more than 1000 games on the first day, if you want to play it that way.

baked ham

@Lemming To The Sea: If EA isn't a criminal of the game world to you, I'd hate to see who your nominations are. :P

ShaggE

@lionkitten: It was about as clever as Crash McCloud's no games on the PS3 comment.

c-lin' Fanboy

Also, how the hell does that figure work?

I believe there's currently around 200-300 retail games, 110? 120? I lost count XBLA games... and Summer is 3-5 months away depending which part we're talking about, how are they going to pump out 500+ games in that small of a timeframe?

Lemming To The Sea

@Amazon_Chris: You do realize EA doesn't make very many movie games anymore, correct? I think they only still have the Harry Potter license. I don't know if you have tried the Harry Potter games and for kids platformers... they're really not bad just, suprise, they're made for kids not adults so the games aren't meant to be enjoyed by us, the Kotaku crowd.

But I don't consider The Godfather or The Simpsons to be "movie games" because they're not meant to be tie-ins with a theatrical release, they're just games based off of movie licenses that are seperate stories.

You'd be better off saying some shitty Activision or Ubisoft movie game, stop giving EA unnecessary heat.

(and yes, I have made it a personal mission to get Kotakuites to stop hating EA so much and start hating the real criminals of the video game world)

Lemming To The Sea

Bomberman Zero doesn't count right? because...that wasn't really a game...

JGab

@Scazza: LOL.. you read too much of the same sites my friend. Expand your horizons and you will see more then doom and gloom :D

okenny :)

How can you forget the large number of used copies of Perfect Dark Zero and Tomb Raider: Legend that were also sitting with The Outfit?

SuperFox

@ATT: Wow that's clever. never seen a red ring joke on a forum post about 360 before. Seriously. I'm tearing up here.

On a more useful note, I searched the 360 games list on xbox.com and 798 showed up. That included back compat games/XBLA/multiple versions of same game etc. They do have a lot of games, and technically speaking there likely will be 1000, but it's a bit of spin, of course. NPD numbers came out today...it's spin season for 48 hours on all sides.

lionkitten

Hey Plunkett, that better not be a diss on Kameo or N3... I own both games and beat them at least three times. Hell, I plan to replay them this summer... they're good games damn you!! *crys*

okenny :)

I predicted game 1000 will be a first-person shooter.

PaulHunter

@ATT: Ha! I see what you did there! An RROD joke! I'm surprised nobody makes jokes about the RROD... such a wasted opportunity.

...

Oh wait.

ShaggE

@[KU]Shindokie:Pon Pon Pata Pon!: *High Five*

Balance_In_Life (PSN)

@ATT: Well, my first 360 saw about 21 games before it started going a little fritzy. My regular 360 never did get the RROD. However when I got my Elite it only lasted five months and it got the RROD. It was hilarious at the time since a friend of mine swore that the Elite was "invincible" against the RROD...yeah right. It's funny because the game that did my Elite in was Mass Effect.

Mikey G

@Erwin: or Hannah Montana :'(

[KU]Shindokie:Pon Pon Pata Pon!

Who's going to be first to get 1 million gamerpoints =O

cheesecake000

@ATT: *slap* Seriously stfu up with that shit. instead of coming inhere and congratulating MS. You decide its funny to use some dumb ass comment. Ugh. People like you ruin the fun of coming to places like these.

Congrats MS and i wonder what lucky game will receive the honor if that is one. Maybe a special with half off from an XBL game?

[KU]Shindokie:Pon Pon Pata Pon!

"I wonder what title will hold the 1000th release?"

Probably some crappy movie based game by EA.

Amazon_Chris

Sadly, tears will be shed at Microsoft when Hellboy: Science of Evil marks the milestone.

Erwin

Congrats! I do like the 360, I just happen to like the PC better. Much, MUCH better.

Pezdispenser

@Crash McCloud: Yeah but at least 75% of those will be good games. Keep on truckin' troll.

Grats for MS though. They have done a really good job getting the system the top tier titles it needed to go up against Sony and Nintendo. Albeit they have had their problems, it's a really good gaming platform.

Balance_In_Life (PSN)

@SycoKiller: @baked ham: Perhaps that could be the fishy smell I sense. I know there's something fishy about the number, as I said, and that could be the most likely? Who the hell knows. I do know that a whole lot of 360 games were released as collectors or special editions in addition to the standards.

baked ham

@Scazza: It's too bad that I'm relatively certain this is spin span spun. Last count I saw there were less than 500 games for 360, but that includes all the ones that are announced but not yet released. Less than 200 for Live Arcade. About 450 original Xbox titles were released. Something tells me that 1000 titles includes Xbox original games.

If I'm wrong, then I will bite my words. But seriously, there is definitely something fishy about that 1000 number. There are a lot of games for the 360, sure, but not that many.

baked ham

I wonder what title will hold the 1000th release?

el_rezzo

Your Xbox 360 likely won't see more then 15 before it
RROD.

No more then 30 before 3 year warranty is over and your left with paper weight.

ATT

If lucky Sony could have their 100th Ps3 game out by 2010

Crash McCloud

Does that also count platinum hits, GOTY and Special/Limited editions?

SycoKiller

i guess that's good news..even though out of those *almost 1000...only about 50, if that interest me.

thesillyone

so are they giving out 1000th game for free?

that be awesome!!

icepick314

First "good" news in like 3 months. Recently MS has been getting such bad press, lol.

Scazza