Let's name TRUE exclusive franchises by letter.

[Kid_Krusher13]

Playstation:
infamous
MAG
Resistance
Jax and Daxter
Uncharted

Xbox:
Dance Central
Gears of War

Nintendo:
Legend of Zelda
Kirby
Mario Bros

[123savethewhales]

Sucks for them then, why would you buy an Xbox if (like most people) you have a PC? I know a lot of the newer games in the franchises are coming to Xbox only though but they should be making Xbox more appealing with exclusive IP's.

Why would anyone buy any new consoles when they have a PC?

Answer:  Because they have way too much money.  We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of disposable income that they can throw around on maybe a few games they actually like, then throw another few hundreds on games they don't really like and just collects dust after purchase.

[Pwnator]

My dad bought a PS3 because it's one of the best Blu-ray players at that time (I think right now it still is).

...then we found out about its anti-piracy feature. D:

[ianh05]

Sucks for them then, why would you buy an Xbox if (like most people) you have a PC? I know a lot of the newer games in the franchises are coming to Xbox only though but they should be making Xbox more appealing with exclusive IP's.

Why would anyone buy any new consoles when they have a PC?

Answer:  Because they have way too much money.  We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of disposable income that they can throw around on maybe a few games they actually like, then throw another few hundreds on games they don't really like and just collects dust after purchase.

Are you kidding? console exclusives wreck PC exclusives, seriously the best games ever are on consoles and lots of them don't come to PC. Just go look at the first page to see some of the franchises you can't get on PC and if we were naming games there would be even more there that the PC misses out on and even multi-plats don't all come to PC. I obviously have a PC but when it comes to games it just doesn't compete, I uses it for the web and RA2 mostly and that's all.

[123savethewhales]

Sucks for them then, why would you buy an Xbox if (like most people) you have a PC? I know a lot of the newer games in the franchises are coming to Xbox only though but they should be making Xbox more appealing with exclusive IP's.

Why would anyone buy any new consoles when they have a PC?

Answer:  Because they have way too much money.  We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of disposable income that they can throw around on maybe a few games they actually like, then throw another few hundreds on games they don't really like and just collects dust after purchase.

Are you kidding? console exclusives wreck PC exclusives, seriously the best games ever are on consoles and lots of them don't come to PC. Just go look at the first page to see some of the franchises you can't get on PC and if we were naming games there would be even more there that the PC misses out on and even multi-plats don't all come to PC. I obviously have a PC but when it comes to games it just doesn't compete, I uses it for the web and RA2 mostly and that's all.

You just proved my point; people who do that have a lot of money to throw around.

I am not paying $1000 just to get a console and a TV before I even start buying $60 "exclusive" games.  With $1000 I can buy 20 years worth of games on steam summer sales.

[frezal]

Nintendo:

#: 1080° Snowboarding
A: Animal Crossing, Another Code
B: Brain Age
C: Custom Robo
D: Diddy Kong
E: EarthBound (Mother), Excite series (excitebike etc.)
F: Fire Emblem, F-Zero
G: Golden Sun
H: Hotel Dusk & Last Window
I:
J: Jet Force Gemini
K: Kirby, Kid Icarus
L: Luigi
M: Metroid
N: Nintendogs/Cats
O:
P: Pikmin, Pilotwings, Punch-Out, Pushmo/Crashmo
Q:
R: Rhythm Heaven
S: Star Fox, Sin and Punishment, Super Smash bros.
T:
U:
V:
W: Wario, Wii sports, Wii Fit
X: Xenoblade, X (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(1992_video_game))
Y: Yoshi
Z: ZombiU

[frezal]

Nintendo:
Nintendogs,Cooking Mama

Playstation:
Killzone

Xbox:
Halo

Cooking Mama is also available on iOS.

[Thyrus]

you can count ZombieU as franchise since Ubisofts first ever released title was Zombi. But that makes it not compatible with the list since Zombi was released 1986 on PC. If you don`t count Zombi in then ZombieU isn`t a franchise but a single game.

[frezal]

Using those rules, several games need to be removed. "Earthbound" isn't a franchise, it's the American title of Mother 2. Wii Fit has only had one game. (Wii Fit+ wasn't a sequel, it was Wii Fit with some added mini games.)

Hotel Dusk doesn't count as "Hotel Dusk" is the North American name for Last Wish. Last Windows never came out in North America, therefore Hotel Dusk is the sole game in its franchise.

The game Yoshi never had a sequel, nor did Yoshi's Story or Yoshi's Cookie. Yoshi's Island has a sequel, but the first game is actually just Super Mario World 2.

"Luigi" isn't a game, it's a character. Luigi's Mansion, however, is a franchise.

[Resetti's Replicas]

Hotel Dusk doesn't count as "Hotel Dusk" is the North American name for Last Wish. Last Windows never came out in North America, therefore Hotel Dusk is the sole game in its franchise.

Wait, when did the rules change to "the game only counts if it came out in America"?

[frezal]

Hotel Dusk doesn't count as "Hotel Dusk" is the North American name for Last Wish. Last Windows never came out in North America, therefore Hotel Dusk is the sole game in its franchise.

Wait, when did the rules change to "the game only counts if it came out in America"?

You misunderstood. "Hotel Dusk" never had a sequel. "Last Wish" did. Therefore the franchise is "Last Wish", not "Hotel Dusk".

[Resetti's Replicas]

Oh ok, the wording of your posts made it sound like stuff had to be removed, not renamed

[Badnik96]

Nintendo's missing StarTropics. Everyone forgets StarTropics.


edit: And Starfy.

[Chaosmancer]

Etrian Odyssey for Nintendo. Professor Layton for Nintendo. Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (or one of the other training ones) for Nintendo. The Imagine series of games for Nintendo. Spectrobes for Nintendo. Everybody's Golf/Tennis for Sony. Crazy Frog Racing for Sony. Buzz for Sony. Eye of Judgement for Sony. Invizimals for Sony. Project Gotham Racing for Xbox. Crackdown for Xbox. Scene it for Xbox.

[AlexGRFan97]

^ Not quite, PGR had two mobile releases and started off on the Dreamcast as MSR.

[Chaosmancer]

^ Not quite, PGR had two mobile releases and started off on the Dreamcast as MSR.

Guess I should've double checked that one.

Drakengard for Sony. Singstar for Sony. Lips for Xbox.

[frezal]

Wait, why doesn't Pokemon count?

[Chaosmancer]

Wait, why doesn't Pokemon count?

Because there have been a couple of Pokemon games on PC (both of them trading card games, one of which was released for Windows 95, the other is from Thyrus' post on the first page).

there`s a pkmn raiding card game for pc

Link? is it official?

http://www.pokemontcg.com/

it looks like it is.

Just like Legend of Zelda doesn't count because of the CDi versions

[frezal]

Wait, why doesn't Pokemon count?

Because there have been a couple of Pokemon games on PC (both of them trading card games, one of which was released for Windows 95, the other is from Thyrus' post on the first page).

there`s a pkmn raiding card game for pc

Link? is it official?

http://www.pokemontcg.com/

it looks like it is.

Just like Legend of Zelda doesn't count because of the CDi versions

You kids don't know what you're talking about. Spin-offs are separate franchises than the main series.

The Pokemon offerings on PC were spinoffs and non-game software. Pokemon:TCG is an entirely different series with an entirely different set of rules, types, items, etc. So while one could argue that Pokemon: TCG isn't a Nintendo exclusive, Pokemon (Red, Green, Blue, Gold, Silver, Crystal, etc.) is. Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Rumble, and Pokemon Ranger are also exclusive franchises.

Mario Bros. (offered on the Atari and such) is an entirely different game (yes, there was only one made) than, say, Mario Party or Super Mario Bros. The CD-i Zelda games are non-canon and weren't even made by Nintendo.

Just because a character (or characters) from a game appear in some form on another system, that doesn't negate any other games they appear in.

[ianh05]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_(franchise)

Franchise > series > game.