I agree with everything this guy says. I loved my 360 but the xbox brand is like a wasteland right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSAvhg104E
Was god of war the final strike for the hardcore xbox fans?
@kali-b1rd said:
This... is a good way of putting it.
I can bash Sony for taking less risks, but Microsoft has been by far the worst for it this gen.
Sea of Thieves.... seems to me that thing was doomed to fail, I can't imagine anyone who actually plays games at MS XBox team thought otherwise.
these 2 companies have the funding and infrastructure to create high quality games, MS has the infrastructure to make MP games of much higher quality.
But simply put, its alot harder to make a successful MP game than stick to old conventions.. MS, has been worse than Sony... ultimately.
Nintendo are very conservative, but thier range of successful games have good LAN/workable online.
Wait what?
"MS has the infrastructure to make MP games of much higher quality."
How is MS's MP game higher quality than Sony's when no MP game outside of Forza Horizon 3 is even AAA this gen?
Sony has more high rated MP games than MS this gen FACT! So that argument is dead buddy...we can do a games list and you'll get obliterated if you choose.
Also
"But simply put, its alot harder to make a successful MP game than stick to old conventions.. MS, has been worse than Sony... ultimately."
That's the exact opposite of what Phil Spencer has said and you defended!
So, in an attempt to down play the difficulty of what takes to produce a high quality AAA exclusive games, you contradict virtually everything you've been arguing about MP games taking over as the most popular today and SP not mattering to many people because MS's low quality MP cash grabs failed???
Phil Spencer
“One of the things I worry about…are the single-player story-driven games. It’s hard when so much of the gameplay that happens on a daily basis is on these games that are long and growing and service-based, and then you get a smaller single-player game and what…how does it find its audience when so many hours are taken up [already]?”
“The audience for those big story-driven games…I won’t say it isn’t as large, but they’re not as consistent. You’ll have things like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Horizon Zero Dawn that’ll come out, and they’ll do really well, but they don’t have the same impact that they used tohave because the big service-based games are capturing such a large amount of the audience. Sony’s first-party studios do a lot of these games, and they’re good at them, but outside of that, it’s difficult–they’ve become more rare…It’s a difficult business decision for those teams, you’re fighting into more headwind. We’ve got to understand that if we enjoy those games, the business opportunity has to be there for them. I love story-based games. I just finished Thimbleweed Park…Inside was probably my game of last year. As an industry, I want to make sure both narrative-driven single-player games and service-based games have the opportunity to succeed. I think that’s critical for us.”
This... is a DIRECT contradiction to Phil Spencer's quote you've been DEFENDING tooth and nail for months now.
WOW!
Now, you've flip flopped on that MP argument for the purpose of downplaying MS's failures with their MP games.
Again PHIL SPENCER calls single-player games difficult and not as consistent as service based MP games...And YOU'VE been defending that argument ALL BEFORE now.
NOW...Single player is easy as pie @kali-b1rd
Man MP games are really difficult and SP are so easy now...
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