onAXIS: PlayStation Store Exclusives vs. Xbox Live Arcade Exclusives

While checking over at N4G for the latest news, I came across an article between exclusive games on the PlayStation Store and exclusive games on the Xbox Live Arcade. I wanted to post my own little segment on it.

Below, you'll see a list of exclusive games for each of the online platforms. You'll notice a lot of Xbox Live Arcade's titles are retro remakes. But that is not necessarily a bad thing, really. Now, to take a look at the list, do your comparisons. On this list, you cannot compare the amount of games really, since they were a year ahead.

Xbox Live Arcade (61)

Released (45)
Games with a Metascore of 75 or Better: 20

Title	Publisher	Metascore
3D Ultra Minigolf Adventures	Wanako Studios	65
Aegis Wing	Microsoft	61
Assault Heroes	Wanako Studios	79
AstroPop	PopCap	78
Band of Bugs	NinjaBee	68
Bankshot Billiards 2	PixelStorm	65
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe	PopCap	69
Bomberman Live	Hudson Soft	85
Boom Boom Rocket	EA	69
Carcassonne	Sierra	79
Catan	Big Huge Games	81
Cloning Clyde	NinjaBee	81
Crystal Quest	Stainless Games	65
Eets: Chowdown	Klei	77
Feeding Frenzy	PopCap	65
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved	Bizarre Creations	86
Hardwood Backgammon	Silver Creek	66
Hardwood Hearts	Silver Creek	66
Hardwood Spades	Silver Creek	65
Heavy Weapon	PopCap	77
Hexic HD	Microsoft	82
Hexic 2	Microsoft	75
Jetpac Refuelled	Microsoft	73
Jewel Quest	iWin	68
Lumines Live!	Q Entertainment	77
Luxor 2	MumboJumbo	70
Mad Tracks	Load	62
Marathon: Durandal	Freeverse	67
Marble Blast Ultra	GarageGames	79
Mutant Storm Reloaded	PomPom Games	77
Novadrome	Stainless Games	54
Outpost Kaloki X	NinjaBee	77
Pac-Man Championship Edition	Namco Bandai	83
Pinball FX	Zen Studios	67
RoboBlitz	Naked Sky	76
Small Arms	Microsoft	73
Soltrio Solitaire	Silver Creek	59
Space Giraffe	Llamasoft	48
Spyglass Board Games	Strange Flavour	53
Street Trace: NYC	Gaia	N/A
Texas Hold'em	TikGames	63
TotemBall	Microsoft	44
Uno	Microsoft	81
Wik and the Fable of Souls	Reflexive	77
Wing Commander Arena	EA	54
Zuma Deluxe	PopCap	79

Unreleased (16)

Title	Publisher
Alhambra	Vivendi
Battlestar Galactica	Vivendi
Castle Crashers	Behemoth
Every Extend Extra Extreme	Q Entertainment
Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown	PopCap
Geon: Emotions	Eidos
Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm	Sega
HoopWorld	Streamline Studios
Mutant Storm Empire	PomPom Games
N+	Metanet
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness	Hothead Games
Schizoid	Microsoft
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe	Empire Interactive
Tetris Splash	THQ
Undertow	Chair Entertainment
War World	Ubisoft

PlayStation Network (24)

Released (12)
Games with a Metascore of 75 or Better: 3

Title	Publisher	Metascore
Blast Factor	SCEA	68
Calling All Cars	SCEA	77
Cash Guns Chaos	SCEA	N/A
Flow	SCEA	71
Go! Puzzle	SCEA	62
Go! Sudoku	SCEA	63
GripShift	SOE	67
Nucleus	Kuju	56
Piyotama	SCEA	N/A
Super Rub A Dub	SCEA	48
Super Stardust HD	SCEA	83
Warhawk	SCEA	83

Unreleased (12)

Title	Publisher
Echochrome	SCEA
Elefunk	SCEA
Everyday Shooter	SCEA
Go! Sports: Ski	SCEA
High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition	SOE
High Velocity Bowling	SCEA
LocoRoco	SCEA
Pain	SCEA
PixelJunk Racer	SCEA
SOCOM: Confrontation	SCEA
Toy Home	SCEA
Wipeout HD	SCEA

Now as you can see, none of the PlayStation Store exclusives are retro remakes. Though we do have a few, such as Rampage, Joust, etc. A quote from Peter Dille, the SCEA Head of Marketing explains why:

"Whereas our competition takes a bunch of old content and catalogs content from previous generations and offers that in a download fashion, our development organization are making games specifically for PS3."

But Peter, is that really a bad thing? Does seeing games like Sonic the Hedgehog be released on the Xbox Live Arcade make you want to play it? It sure does make me. I would love to play all the retro games Live received on the PlayStation 3, along with these new games Sony wants to bring out too.

If you'll also notice, Live has many games from companies you haven't really heard of, those are called Indie Developers I'm pretty sure. Sony needs to work with them to create more of these original games.

All in all, Sony will be the winner when they enhance their retro market, pertain to these situations, and start releasing more PSone Games on the store. To top all of that off, they need a design that will let us better browse the store and access archived content easily.