This may have been discussed before. First of all, I don't want this to turn into a debate on which is best. My simple question is what is the advantage of owning both? I currently own a 360 but lately I have been thinking about maybe trading it for a PS3 or just possibly adding a PS3 to the entertainment bin.

I figure that even if I prefer 360 graphics and probably will prefer Live to PSNetwork that the fact that PSNetwork is free and free WIFI and the Show will make up for what I like about 360. For those of you that have both what is the advantage to having them both?

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2009 once again proves that exclusives hurt the consumer. 360 users were stuck with no baseball game. Meanwhile, wouldn't we all like to know what 2K College Football or NFL 2K would look like. We have all seen how exclusives such as Halo and MLB 09 among others can help dictate which system someone chooses. So, there is undeniable value in titles that are exclusive to consoles.

Though, one must wonder is there such a tremendous value in owning the exclusive license for sports leagues such as the NFL,MLB, and NCAA. Furthermore, someone let me in on how Sony was able to make a MLB game? 2K is truly looking real silly in this whole ordeal as they blame MLB for there slumping numbers, they should be blaming themselves for a deal that allowed Sony to make a game at all. Now that we see how NCAA games are having a hard time expanding or growing at the level they once were it is very questionable to just how valuable it is to have an exclusive to a game that is one of your worst sellers. As for Madden, being that the NFL is most likely Americas favorite sport it is hard to ever see having the license to this game as anything but a plus. It seams to me that this trend may have should ended with the NFL. On the other hand, there will always be those of us that will continue to wonder what a 2K game would look like in 2010 because of what it looked like in 2004/2005 but let us remember that the customer does not come first in the video gaming industry.

Finally, the question is did the industry go to far with exclusives and let there greed and power hungry ways make them less profitable than they would have been by allowing competition to fuel better performance?

jusmegamer

I just finished another game of Madden and just like the other hundreds of games I have finished I am annoyed by the lack of defensive control in this game. Madden 10 and all before are fundamentally flawed due to the fact that you don't have anything close to total control of what goes on on the field. For example, the ball snaps on defense and you pick a man, you change men and sometimes you get the guy that you were not intending to get. The ball is thrown and the offensive guy is wide-open. It happens too many times. I think there is a solution.

Madden should add Icon based Defense into there game. Anyone that plays NBA 2K(yes there are surely others) knows what I speak of. It makes it so much more enjoyable when you can actually play solid defense the way you want by seeing something coming and changing to the desired man to put yourself into the perfect position to make the play. I think this is long overdue. How difficult can it be on offense when you pass you have Icons why have we not and can we not have them on defense. This is long overdue. Please focus on making a better game when it comes to gameplay EA and this is a start. Madden as currently constructed should be called Madden Offense not Madden football.

P.S. I am not a supporter of EA because I feel that they are not a supporter of putting out the best possible product for the fans, but I would like to have a more playable licensed professional football game than what we currently have. Thanks.

jusmegamer

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