I went up to the local video store to hire a game and blu-ray movie (and none were there).

Anyway I noticed Saints Row is coming out for PS3 and now I was just wondering whether any x-box third party games that are not going cross platform?

I am meaning the good games that are out, the ones you'll brag about :brow:
We all know Oblivion is coming out, as is Saints Row, plus Guitar Hero is 360 as well.
So I am just curious.

Off the top of my head, I can mention Gears, Lost Planet, Dead Rising, Bioshock and Mass Effect.

I wasn't impressed at all with Lost Planet and Dead Rising, but they have been very popular for the 360. The last two look promising. Bioshock might actually make its way to the PS3 later on.

isn't Gears Mircosoft made?

Nope... it was developed by Epic Games, the creators of the Unreal Engine.

That's what I don't get.

Gears is a massively popular game, why not multi-platform it and milk it for what it is worth

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=23676


So, if Rein's so confident about the PS3, why not produce a console-exclusive title? After all, Epic has enjoyed huge success with Gears of War - it became the fastest-selling Xbox 360 game following its release last November, with more than 2 million copies sold in under a month.

"The Xbox 360 thing was very much a function of Microsoft coming to us back before Gears really was Gears - it was a prototype of a game we wanted to do in Unreal Engine 2. They came and said, 'Look, we want this to be one of the early, standout games on our new system.' At the time, we didn't actually know the specs of the new system, so it was a bit of a gamble," Rein reveals.

"It was never pitched 'You'll be our Halo' or anything like that, but we thought, if we could be like a Halo to them, that level of importance - that more than pays for the fact that it's on one platform. So that was kind of the dream in the beginning. Then 360 came along and it was a really good system, so that was clearly an amazing opportunity for us."

According to Rein, Epic won't be making a platform exclusive for PS3 - but that's to do with timing rather than the console's specs. "I think that bird has flown the coop already on PlayStation 3 - they're not making launch titles any more, and we couldn't just start up a game tomorrow as an exclusive because it takes a few years.

"We are doing games for PS3 - Unreal Tournament - but I think the opportunity to do an exclusive has passed. I don't see Sony offering us a really great deal today to make that ***-kicking PlayStation 3 game, because by the time we finished, there would already be hundreds of great games on the platform. Gran Turismo, Killzone - they'll be on the sequels to those games by the time our game would come out, so it's just a timing thing.

Quite a few exclusives.