Xbox One - A year in review. Did it have a good year in your opinion

You can play all multi and exclusives on PS4, that's why Xbox always struggles. I bet Xbox will sell more when they actually develop some exclusives which made the 360 a pretty good system.

You bought a Xbox before game pass was a thing, buying a xbox doesn't make sense unless you are a die hard loyalist to Microsoft. If you buy PS4 and Xbox, then you can argue it makes sense, if you do not have a gaming PC.

@undefined: ‘Although admittedly I would love to play GoW.’

Umm, you can play Gears of War on an X1X.

Good point. Me and 3 friends had a blast on GoW4 horde mode the other night. As it's on GP it means we all have it.

You can't play FH4 on PS4 and I don't have a gaming PC good enough to run it. And other that RDR2, FH4 was the game I wanted to play most this year.

AAAAA+++++

Thank goodness for MS, without them the VG world would be in shambles. :P

Why are you lying? You can also play RDR2 on PS4. And the orignal Xbone is the worst place to play RDR2 aka where most lemmings will play the game. The One X gives marginal better grarphics over pro, but if you're a graphics whore you stick with PC gaming.

And Xbone's year was a complete joke. Their E3 was all multiplats, so good for cows. Their AAA offering this year was pathetic even for Xbox standards.

The Xbone keeps getting outsold worldwide and will probably end at 50-60 mil max. Meanwhile PS4 will easily double that.

Only good thing is backwards compatibility. But who cares? New games are the most important.

So no, Xbone is still that shitty watercooler, it's crap and will even end behind Switch.

You can't play RDR2 'AND' FH4 on the PS4.

@boycie: you can’t play RDR2 on PS4?

I thought the 'and' implied both.

Then only put in FH4 in that sentence.

Grammar 101

@knight-k: but that wouldn’t be true as you can play FH4 on the PC. The only place you can play FH4 AND RDR2 is the Xbox.

Cows are really slow today!

Trash since the day it was released.

Excluding ouya and the like this got to be the worst console ever.

@boycie: lol than you can’t play RDR2, GOW, And Marvel Spider-man for Xbox only gamers.. work both way.

Since the above posters didn't bother actually putting any efforts into their post, guess I'll give out my own opinion on Xbox One.

I voted "Could have been better" and for better or worse, I do agree on the Bad: "Microsoft continues to struggle with delivering more than one or two exciting triple-A console exclusives a year on Xbox One" but at the end of the day, I see MS is really working hard satisfying their fans as much as they can now. I think Xbox One had a good year in 2018 only because they release Forza Horizon 4 in my opinion is very well optimized and one of the better MS exclusive games I enjoy but was disappointed in Sea of Thieves but also had fun with State of Decay 2. Game Pass & Xbox Play Anywhere is the true star for MS and MS supporting PC continues to shine but for the console itself, not much to say on it. All this said and done, Xbox One still has a long way to go before this gen is over.

Yeah I thought they had a pretty good year myself. The Xbox One X is an excellent system, the adaptive controller is a very cool and inclusive device, and they’ve created/acquired some great developers which bodes very well for the future. I’ve been quite happy with the Xbox One and Microsoft as a whole and am very much looking forward to their next system.

Ive turned the Xbox on a fair amount, so its doing something right for multiplats. Solid grade "C" for this year. Now MS just needs to give people that don't have one a reason to buy one.

Lol, lemming damage control squad assembled I see. It's a shitty constructed, confusing sentence.

On topic: When are you going to give me the official sales numbers and all of those great AAA exclusives Xbone got this year lemming?

"bu..bu..xbone had great yeaaar!!'

@knight-k: why are you so angry?

In theory yeah, but in practice, the PRO is more than enough to get a good RDR2 experience and not uplayable like you lemmings make it out to be.

Let's talk about a real shit RDR2 experience. The original Xbone, you know the console that most lemmings own and will experience RDR2 on.

Keep up with the damage control though, and let me know when you get a noteworthy AAA exclusive.

@boycie: You can tell they had a good year because the cows are so triggered. ?

Xbox one X should have come out earlier in it's cycle. Most people like me wouldn't mind one, but would rather hold off for a year or two and just get the new Xbox.

So lemming, you can't answer easy questions (we know why) so now you resort to pathetic ad hominems?

Lol "bu..bu..ww..why u so angry?"

@claireredfield: Let's he honest, it's not a dramatic difference. The average person won't notice it. Lems act like One X differences are night and day to get revenge for the early and middle parts of this generation. There's no dramatic difference from 1080p and 900p, Cows just wanted get back for the PS3 /360 era. The difference between Pro and One X isn't worth the extra money with next gen coming. 100 percent more pixels means nothing when you consider dimenishing returns. 4k doesn't look like a big upgrade to 2k, 8k will look like less of an upgrade over 4k despite having an even bigger pixel upgrade. How much clearer can you get over crystal clear? One thing you can't refute is that PS4 has a better library, pretty sure that matters more.

Which banned user does the new alt belong to?

@Archangel3371: Naw, more like Lems like to spin anything into a positive. Sea of Thieves and Forza game #37 isn't a good year no matter how much you guys try to spin. Calling you guys out on your BS doesn't mean anyone is triggered. PS4 has better games, sales, graphics (exclusives look better than anything on One X, Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, etc), generational impact, more players online, etc. Everyone sees past your fake satisfaction of Xbox One. You guys wouldn't hide behind One X(a console 95 percent of lemmings don't own) so much if you guys were really happy with what MS offered this gen. Resolution is all Xbox fans talk about. At least Sony fans argument early in this gen in addition to resolution was that great games were coming given Sonys track record.

The copious mountains of Salt here is proof Xbox Won.

Good stuff. :P

I can't answer your question as MS doesn't release sales figures, we all know this. It's shitty of MS but it is what it is.

Uhuh and what's the cost of the Xbone X vs the PRO? Would be quite sad if it wasn't stronger.

But nice try deflecting my comment about the real shit RDR2 experience. The original Xbone. Again, most lemmings will play it on the original Xbone, not the X. So most lemmings will experience the worst RDR2 version.

Lol and why the fck are we still talking about RDR2? If this is the greatest accomplishment of the Xbone (X) this year...my god lemmings have fallen...

While Cows try to hijack the thread with failed grammar accusations, it's been a damned good year for Xbox. Nowhere else have games looked and played better than x1x. Features like proper 4k, Dolby Atmos, Dolby vision. Games like pubg, fh4 and the ever improving sot. Gamepass, BC and play anywhere. Apps like Kodi and VLC.

Ps4 has had two good exclusives this year and little else, while support and online stability continue to come in 2nd place. Hell, there still isn't a good exclusive FPS to play on PS4.

LOL so lemmings are happy with shitty apps now? LMFAO!

Cows: "where are the games?"

Lemmings:"...bu..bu..look at all of those APPS COWZZZZ!!! Stop talking bout xclusivezzz!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Got all the usual multiplats

MGS 2 + 3 B/C

Forza Horizon 4

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Several months of Game Pass for a dollar

It was pretty good.

Also I feel like an update fixed the streaming which now works pretty well streaming games to your computer.

@Sagemode87: The fact that you simply throw out Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon 4, to which you also throw in some ridiculous hyperbolic number for its sequel status, while completely ignoring all the other things Microsoft has been doing well just further accentuates how triggered cows are.

I'll give MS a thumbs up for buying the failing Obsidian.

But we all know what MS did with RARE....

I don't necessarily think sea ignore thieves was a bad game if another AAA was released in the year. Forza Horizon 4 was great and state of decay 2 just ok nothing special but I didn't expect anything magical given the budget. Out of 10 i would say a 4.

That's dumb Sea of Thieves is because MS let Rare do there own thing.

Again, sounds nice in theory but in practice it's a marginal difference for the average gamer. 100 bucks more for that? LOL, if you're such a graphics whore why not buy a PC and hope R* ports it.

So you acknowledge most Xbox players will play the inferior version of RDR2 since most own an orignal Xbone and not a X?

#

Lems have the option of getting the best version of RDR2(and really almost all multiplats), Cows do not.

didn't entice me at all with games so no bueno for me.

If they invest 500 dollars yeah. Meawhile get no new AAA exclusives. LOL

@knight-k: Of course I'm happy! IPTV on my Xbox rocks! Having vastly better versions of games helps too of course, but I guess until you experience it, you'll be happy with ps faux.

You're hyperbole is amusing. For the average gamer the difference isn't that crazy as you make it seem to be, simple as that. Again most lemmings will play the inferior version on the original Xbone, weird how you're not acknowledging that fact huh lemming?