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Fighting games fail on the 360 controller compared to the Dual Shock. Though if I planned to get T6, I'd have to get an arcade joypad regardless of whether its on PS3 or 360.
I'm still going to be playing T6 mostly at the arcades, but if I take the game as seriously as I took T5:DR or Soul Calibur 2, I'm gonna have to get the console to practice on. Combined with the FFXIII news, this may just be the decisive factor that inspires me to buy a 360.
Comparing it to FFXIII is a bit premature. It only has a Xbox 360 release date in the West where Microsoft is king. In Japan, (however) Sony still has the upper hand. Square Enix know it won't make money if they released it in Japan. As for profits, since most of their revenue is made on the back of a pinacle FF game, it makes perfect buisness sense not to specialise in a gaming enviroment which is split down the better.
However, the Blu-Ray battle will have bigger reprecussions down the line Iceglow. Blu-Ray is Sony's commodity, and if (by the next generation) we're still using disc format, Microsoft will be in Sony's pocket. Although some experts have argued the next development is in downloads, it goes against many people's complexes. People still trade music, but games?
As for the Tekken news, I couldn't care less. I love Tekken, but its not important. I got to play MGS4, and that makes me happy. :)
We're getting screwed over so hard this year... :(
Then again, I probably wouldn't be getting Tekken anyway, we still got valkyria chronicles, resistance 2, LBP and Socom coming out fairly soon. Not to mention killzone 2 and God of War down the line. Sony still looks better than Microsoft as far as exclusives go (third party and not). It's just really a shame that tradition-epitomizing, platform-defining software to sell its soul like that.
EDIT: Actually, socom's already out...