This is how long it has been since each system got an AAAE (UPDATED)

Just figured this would be a rather interesting thread to have.

Anyway, this is how long it has been since each system this generation had an exclusive game that scored a 9 or above on Gamespot. Any game that is, or was, available on any other system, is not counted as an exclusive for the purposes of this discussion:

• PlayStation 4: 11 months, 12 days (Bloodborne)
• Xbox One: 2 years, 2 months, 20 days (Forza Motorsport 5)
• Wii U: 5 months, 6 days (Super Mario Maker)
• PC: 10 days (XCOM 2)
• Nintendo 3DS: 0 days (Fire Emblem: Fates)
• PlayStation Vita: The PlayStation Vita has never had an AAAE

Counting brand, timed, console, or de facto exclusives, this is what it comes to:

• PlayStation 4: 22 days (The Witness)
• Xbox One: 3 months, 6 days (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
• Wii U: 5 months, 6 days (Super Mario Maker)
• PC: 5 days (Darkest Dungeon)
• Nintendo 3DS: 0 days (Fire Emblem Fates)
• PlayStation Vita: 3 years, 2 months, 24 days (Persona 4 Golden)

3DS is gonna get its next AAA in three days.

Dang thats pretty crazy, PS4 even had to use Journey which is an old PS3 game.

"PC: 5 days"

The spread for 9/10 PC games is honestly like several a month.

Well at least the X1 isn't last.

RIP lolvita

Yep, Fire Emblem Fates is gonna be a 9/10- well, at least one of them anyway.

Yeah lol, PC gets as many AAA in a month as a console gets over the course of an entire year.

If it doesn't use Journey, it is still ahead of at least Xbox One, PS Vita, and Nintendo 3DS- and if you are using the Journey comparison for PS4, then you also have to point out Rise of the Tomb Raider is not, and never was, an Xbox One exclusive.

Yeah, the Vita thing is brutal...

Meh.

Wow that's nuts for most of them. Good thing I enjoy games that get all types of scores. I'm swamped with games, got the Bravely Second demo to play through as well, sigh.

Hey, 3DS is all set to get a AAA this week :P

Poor Vita :(

Yes, contemplating on getting it or not. Special edition with all 3 games in one cart is $200 in my country.

Yikes. Australia?

I think Darkest Dungeon is timed exclusive, if that still counts that's cool, just thought I'd say it's coming to Playstation supposedly in a few months.

But yea, sucks to be a Vita owner lol.

@Vaasman: Well, I'll just sub that out with XCOM 2 if so, lol

Close, New Zealand. It's worse pricing by about $10 over Australia.

Still, we dont get censored like they do :P

To bad that game looks boring as fck...

That's a plus lol.

My recommendation is getting one game at full price as a cart, then getting the other two as DLC at half price each. I'm not sure what the cost of that would be, but it has to be less than $200!

Almost good just a few issues.

You listed darkest dungeon for exclusives when it was confirmed to be coming to PS4 and Vita so not a PC exclusive.

About Darkest Dungeon

CONFIRMED PLATFORMS: Win/OSX/Linux/PS4/PS Vita

http://www.darkestdungeon.com/about-the-game/

And for console exclusive PS4 recently received another AAA in The Witness and that was just January 26!

http://www.gamespot.com/the-witness/

You actually listed Darkest Dungeon in your categories twice so you need to fix that.

otherwise good on your part of info research.

@casharmy: Already corrected Darkest Dungeon with XCOM 2, but yes, I forgot about The Witness, thanks for that reminder!

I don't know how I forgot about that one lol.

@aroxx_ab: Haven't played it and it's not my cup of tea but i'm sure those reviews and steam scores mean sth.

can't be more boring than MGSV ...

3DS is gonna end up with less AAA games on GameSpot than Vita. What a garbage system.

So either PC or a PS4 as a primary system with a side offering of the Wii U.

Isn't XCOM coming to Console?

Poor Vita :'(

No word of that yet, currently completely pc exclusive :)

Nope, fully exclusive for the foreseeable future.

I thought the last XCOM sold well on console. Interesting.

• Xbox One: 2 years, 2 months, 18 days (Forza Motorsport 5)

Another reason PS4 is outselling X1 almost 2:1?

@mr_huggles_dog: It did, but Firaxis didn't want to hobble their game design again like they had to with Enemy Unknown with the new game, so they went PC exclusive.

Did it really? Because the impression I got looking at other forums like neogaf where some posted sales numbers the console versions sold really bad compared to the PC version wich sold over 3 million I think. Looking at the xcom 2 announcement thread on gaf it seems that the console versions didnt even charted the launch week.

The PC version had a long tail, thanks to Steam sales and the like (compared to the comparatively more frontloaded market on Xbox and PlayStation), but at least at launch, I think the console versions sold respectably well.

So it quite possibly could be that the sort of game XCOM is doesn't sell well on console.

Wouldn't make sense, consoles have a long history of successful SRPGs, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown can easily pass for one of those.

Source of xcom selling well on consoles?

Xcom2 might still make it to xbone/ps4 in the future, first they need to fix the pc version performance tho, but nobody is paying firaxis to keep it on PC...

So when's your new PC coming @charizard1605 ?

Western developed TBS/SRPGs never were big sellers on consoles for the most part,the japanese ones sell pretty decently though,some of them at least.

@howmakewood: Really no source, I'm just going by memory. I don't care enough either way to want to make a definitive statement lol. I played it on my Mac myself.

And not yet, not just yet. Possibly at the end of this year? That would have been when I would have bought the Xbox One, and I imagine the PC just subs for it.

@charizard1605: Well whatever the reason....if it's bc "we didn't want to gimp our game" or whatever...that's the developers fault due to lack of talent.

Many games are fun and on both console and PC.

People praise Nintendo games and they are aren't exactly robust in scope. Fun doesn't require a PC.

@mr_huggles_dog: Sure, but you're missing the forest for the trees. XCOM 2 is the game Firaxis wanted to make, and that was a game that would have been gimped by consoles. It doesn't matter if games with less scope can also be fun.

Here's the quote on PC exclusivity

Creative Director Jake Solomon told IGN that the studio has "very, very ambitious goals" for the sequel, and the only way to realize them was to focus on the platform for which it had the greatest depth of expertise.

"When we have our meetings, when we talk about stuff, we only talk about PC," Solomon said. "We talk about, ‘What is the experience like on PC? What does the mouse feel like in this experience?'" The UI is being optimized to more efficiently support mouse-and-keyboard controls, and in fact the current plan is to launch without support for controllers. More on-screen tactical information will also be provided, since the assumption is that players will be sitting closer to their monitors than they would to a television, and will thus be able to read smaller text.

XCOM 2 will offer other improvements as well, including physics-based rendering, more visually impressive destruction, and procedurally-generated maps. "To do that, we had to use all of our studio expertise... and our expertise here is PC," Solomon said. "That's our home, and that's where we're really comfortable."

@charizard1605: that's a good point. I guess I just get defensive if it sounds like a developer blames consoles for reasons that can be worked through.

But then again I don't think SHOGUN 2 could be done on console and that game needs to be the way it is.

@Heil68 said:

• Xbox One: 2 years, 2 months, 18 days (Forza Motorsport 5)

Another reason PS4 is outselling X1 almost 2:1?

Yeah that 11 months and 10 days without a AAA exclusive is looking mighty impressive...

Ahem... Where is that continues stream of AAAA and GOTY exclusives you keep saying consoles have ?

@R4gn4r0k said:

@Heil68 said:

• Xbox One: 2 years, 2 months, 18 days (Forza Motorsport 5)

Another reason PS4 is outselling X1 almost 2:1?

Yeah that 11 months and 10 days without a AAA exclusive is looking mighty impressive...

Ahem... Where is that continues stream of AAAA and GOTY exclusives you keep saying consoles have ?

They get those with multi plats, like Witcher 3 and Phantom Pain both played and reviewed on PS4 and got 10/10. Besides you and I both know that although those are the best games available, there is nothing wrong with playing sub 8 games and in actual terms AAA refers to budget/scope of game.

We could ask when did PC have its last AAAAE but we all know that's never or how long ago with its last exclusive GOTY was if we want to get technical.

So to recap, #SDC in intact, living, breathing and alive in all of us.

maybe that makes a difference to some people, but to most, it's really just about the games overall. exclusives aren't really a difference maker this gen.

I got #SDC surgically removed a long time ago.

Otherwise it comes bursting out of you like some unknown creature

But seriously though. I agree with you: a score is not everything.

In fact a lot of 6-7 or even lower scoring games have stuck with me for a far longer time than some 9-10 scoring games. But our time and money is limited, so no wonder people put that much emphasis on scores...

On the other hand, once you defined your own taste in games, genres and developers. A game could literally score anything between 1-10 and you'd still know if it's for your or not :)

@R4gn4r0k:

Yup. Once you have it made up in your mind you want to play something, very rarely will score make a difference.