Xbox 360 Game Library Only 17% Shooters

The Xbox 360 has a reputation for being a console only for shooter fans. Turns out the perception and the reality are quite different. FPS Source gathered the statistics and X3F provided a pie chart. Originally taking what FPS Source considers the console's current 137 title library, they discovered the FPS genre makes up only 11% of the 360's library and the Third Person Shooter genre just 6%, with the most common genres being sports and action/adventure titles.

Since these stats were released many people have voiced their different opinions on the subject. There have been a few updates, and some compromise including a new chart, using scores from Metatcritic, showing that 22% of the quality games are shooters. Some criticized the statistics reasoning that sports games, like Madden, should not be counted as multiple titles because they are just the same game with a different number every year. However, no matter how you slice it, shooters are merely one facet of the Xbox 360's varied gaming library. With games like Blue Dragon, Mass Effect and the ethereal Eternal Sonata, hopefully gamer's perceptions will start to more closely resemble the reality that the Xbox 360 is a lot more than just shooters.

First Person Shooter opens in San Francisco

Last night in San Francisco, Aaron Loeb, who works at Planet Moon Studios (Armed and Dangerous and Infected) premiered his play First Person Shooter at the San Francisco Playhouse. The guys over at GayGamer.net attended a preview friday night and have a review up on their site. The story follows a successful fictional company known for making violent video games. Things go wrong at the company when they are blamed for a schoolyard shooting and the young CEO of the company has to deal with the lawsuit which follows and the parents of the victims.

The SF Playhouse says, "Aaron [Loeb], who now develops videogames, worked as a journalist covering the world of videogames at the time of Littleton, Colorado shootings and 'wanted to write a play about the people caught in the echo chamber of the debate. What must it be like for the people actually accused of making a game that turns kids into killers? What about the parents of the victims? Their children are dead and the news is jam packed with talk of something so trivial as videogames!'"

The play premieres to the public tonight and runs until June 9 at the San Francisco Playhouse. Ticket information is available at the playhouse's website. If you live in the San Francisco area go check it out and let me know what you think. Hopefully after the play's run they'll make a three camera video of it. Sure, it kinda defeats the purpose of seeing it live, but not everyone that wants to see it can make it out to San Fran and it sounds like a good play.

Source: Joystiq