The Xbox Onesie
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You can tell Sony's comments about safety with Minecraft really annoyed him.
Not surprised as live is very safe and even Nintendo are happy to use it despite being very over protective.
Not surprised as live is very safe and even Nintendo are happy to use it despite being very over protective.
I'm sure they've crunched the numbers and the costs of making tons of AAA exclusives just doesn't work for them. Most exclusives end up being "meh" anyway. They seem way more important to console wars than to actual gamers. Everyone plays a few exclusives, but honestly I spend most of my time in multiplats. My only real big exclusive is the Forza games (as Sony seems to have little on that front at least for now).
COD, Overwatch, Destiny, sports games, RPGs, big multiplats is where most AAA games are. Give people the biggest piece of hardware to run those.
COD, Overwatch, Destiny, sports games, RPGs, big multiplats is where most AAA games are. Give people the biggest piece of hardware to run those.
You mean like "I don't like content exclusivity in marketing deals" but he is totally fine making entire games unplayable for millions of people for a length of time lol.
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For a long time they were able to coast on Halo and to a lesser extent Gears and Forza. The market for Halo is shrinking, it's still one of the most successful franchises but it's not what it once was and I think the downward trend will continue. Gears was never as big as Halo but it was still a big hit series but again it's trending downwards too. I'm not saying they need to stop making those games but they can't expect to live off of them for much longer either, they also need to give their new IP's a chance and not just abandon them if they aren't 5 million sellers the first time out.
What they showed at E3 from first party wasn't exactly awe inspiring, forget that the games weren't surprises but other than Forza they didn't look all that good either, at least not their "big releases" I'd say from what they showed Ori was easily the best looking true exclusive they had other than Forza.
They haven't been since the latter part of the last gen and now the decent ones are not exclusive and can be played online for free on the PC.
Not good
I thought they showed quite a few impressive games. I know most were indie and not everyone's cup of tea but they looked great! I for one am looking for to Xbox hugs and kisses and playing the best version of multiplats(sorry, I had to throw that in there).
I'm getting a big kick reading this doom and gloom bulls*** though. Keep it up.
I am starting to dislike Phil Spencer on how he is approaching the game console.
Being too nice going to get his ass in a jam and the company going to get rid of him for not being aggressive.
Being too nice going to get his ass in a jam and the company going to get rid of him for not being aggressive.
I've spent the last year and a half playing almost nothing but PS exclusives (minus a two-month break for Skyrim). That's not because I'm trying to score points in the console wars. It's because Sony offers games that interest me, and MS doesn't.
Exclusives matter. They even matter to "actual gamers," believe it or not.
Exclusives have always mattered, in every console generation. They are one of the main reasons people choose one console over another.
Agree. Stupid thing to say. Watch as his non-competitor outsells him.
So if Phil signed some things for future franchises then it looks like it's all outsourced stuff with the internal studios pumping out the usual stuff.
They seemed like they were getting aggressive Pre E3 and I don't what happened at E3.
Did Jeff Gerstmann even ask about 1st party exclusives? Seems like he went easy on Phil this year.
Read what I typed again - I was going a different angle, "announcing games that have already been released." FFVII, for example, a twenty year old game still is of course a reason Sony won last E3. Shadow of the Colossus was hailed this year, probably almost as much as it was back when it was actually originally released. I think (but I don't want to take the time to confirm) that they announced the Last of Us remaster at E3.
(Of course, MCC/Halo Anniversary/Gears and stuff happened too, not to mention backwards compatibility, but it stops being funny and starts being informative by that point and I'm not going for 'informative' ratings).
They announced over 20 exclusives of some sort they just didn't announce the timed stuff while acting like it was a full exclusive.
All the non full exclusives were clearly marked at the start of each trailer.
Also it's just a habit for Phil while kept calling the Xbox X Scorpio throughout the week during interviews
No it's not. We just don't know what else they have. You honestly believe there will only be Halo next year, or something? They do have games; they just may not be the ones you want, and that is fine.
There games available, and soon those games will be at the highest fidelity available on console. I'm content for the moment- in fact, I am waaay behind on my current collection.
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Oh, sorry, I misread. I didn't sleep well last night, so I'm not firing on all cylinders.
Btw, your brain comes up with some weird sh*t.
I've spent the last year and a half playing almost nothing but PS exclusives (minus a two-month break for Skyrim). That's not because I'm trying to score points in the console wars. It's because Sony offers games that interest me, and MS doesn't.
Exclusives matter. They even matter to "actual gamers," believe it or not.
Exclusives have always mattered, in every console generation. They are one of the main reasons people choose one console over another.
Yeah, and the kind of games PS tends to have exclusives on tend to be those I am not a big fan of (3rd person, rpgish, hack and slash-ish). You see how Horizon isn't really my thing. Not the game's fault.
Honestly for me owning both consoles, I can say Forza and Halo probably made me an Xbox guy. If not for Forza now, would I own an Xbox? All my in real life friends are on Xbox, so probably. I own a PS for completely different reasons. While I have really enjoyed some exclusives (playing through Uncharted was mega-fun), it really wasn't any game that made me do it.
Maybe I'm an oddball, but most of my games are multiplats. NHL, Overwatch, Battlefield, Bfront, COD, Destiny, etc.
