360 is constantly heralded as an alternative to PC while Wii and PS3 are not

Action-adventure is such a broad genre that it's virtually meaningless as a form of identification. Tomb Raider is an action adventure, but so is Devil May Cry, and Legend of Zelda, and Okami, and God of War. Pretty much any game that is played from the third person and doesn't have a targeting reticle can be called an action-adventure.

And yes, 6 out of 22 is an overabundance. Actually, if you exclude the racing games (because those are incremental games like Madden, and do not add to a console's diversity), then it's 6 out of 18. You have six examples of one genre, and six OTHER genres with only one or two examples each. You don't consider that an overabundance?

If you made a pie chart of Xbox 360 games, you'd have four BIG regions (sports, racing, JRPG, military/scifi shooters), and a whole bunch of teensy tiny little ones. That's the ery definition of "overabundance."

mjarantilla

Racing games on the 360 are far from incremental games, both of the exclusive racing games on the 360 have made large improvements from earlier versions forza included next gen graphics, damage system, deeper customization, and the auction house, PGR included motorcycles, and weather effects that impact your races, better graphics.

current 360 Genres:

Action-adventure: Dead Rising, Saints Row, Kameo

JRPG-Etneral sonata, Lost odyssey, Blue Dragon

Racing-Forza, PGR3, PGR4, MotoGP

Fighters: Do4, naruto

SciFi/military: Halo, Mass Effect, Graw, Ace Combat

strategy: Viva Pinata

current PS3 Genres:

Action adventure: Heavenly sword, Uncharted, Folklore

SciFi/Military: Warhawk, Resistance

Im only seeing an overabundance of genres on the PS3 which consists of 2 genres.....

As for action adventure being broad so it some how shouldn't discredit the PS3, how is your genre of Scifi/Military that you were trying to use to discredit the 360, not more broad, its not even used as a genre here at gamespot while action adventure is.

The fact that the 360 can be almost entirely replaced by another system is a good thing?XaosII

ps3 is alot more like pc in my opinion.. free online, mods, keyboard and mouse to play games like UT3, internet browser, etc

they only call 360 the poor mans pc is because all of 360s good games can be played on pc. bioshock, gears, soon mass effect, etc

Arsenal325

PCs inherently have some huge advantages to consoles... which is why i've always felt for a console to be great(in my eyes) it had to set itself apart from the PC. That is, exclusives and games that work better on the consoles. I've felt each generation was able to do this up until last.. where the xbox really felt like a intro to pc gaming. It did have its share of excellent exclusives, but i didn't care for it as much as the other systems for the previously mentioned reason.

This gen is differnt and yet the same in other ways. The 360 is, in many ways, looking like a PC. Microsoft is trying to bridge the gap, and the result is some cross platform games and many multiplats. It's not a good idea imo, i don't like it at all. Fortunatly, the 360 still does an amazing job of setting itself apart overall. It has some incredbile exclusives, or multiplats that aren't PC also. Even some of its pc multiplats are actually quite good, and the overall library is decently diverse - though in need of much work still. Its big key titles do seem to hit the PC, and that is highly disapointing.