[quote]ince depending on 3rd party alone smells doom and gloom for the console.[/quote] Then how come the Xbox is still around? MS has hardly any 1st party games compared to Nintendo and Sony. When you look at the Xbox Live activity charts you see far more 3rd party games than 1st party games. Hell 3rd party games are doing better than the 1st party games. [quote]People don't buy consoles for third party.[/quote] [b]1:[/b] For the 360 since I own one how come 3rd party games are doing better than 1st party games on the Live charts? [b]2:[/b] How come 3rd party games like GTA 5 banked over $1billion dollars? If nobody bought the 360 and PS3 for 3rd party games than that game wouldn't have sold that well. Since they would be too busy playing those 1st party games they bought the system for. [quote]They buy consoles for exclusives.[/quote] MS and Sony aren't Nintendo. Unlike Nintendo which is manly a 1st party system which milks their decades old exclusives to sell their systems. MS and Sony have far more 3rd party support to help sell their systems. I doubt hardly anybody would buy a 360 just to play Gears, Halo, Fable and that racing game. 1st party games for the PS and Xbox just help people decide which system to get if they're doing one system. 3rd party games are the ones that sell better and have a larger population on the PS and Xbox.