Gemini73 wrote:Just read that article and it's hard to disagree.
So MS have a powerful console. No, the most powerful console to date. Whoop-de-fucking-do. Means nothing without the games to back it up - and on that front PS4/Pro utterly destroys Xbox for range and diversity. And if you have a gaming PC, what's the point in investing in an X1X?
As one commentator below the article says:
Anyone expecting an Horizon, Death Stranding or Zelda: Breath of the Wild from MS are living in a dream world, especially now they're obsessed with games as a service.
Microsoft are so fixated on the power debate of 2012/13 they've totally ignored how the gaming landscape has changed, we're midgen, people want gaming diversity, uniqueness (software and concept with the Switch) and excitement, not higher resolution big budget games.
Still, at least you get a stand to put it on...
Microsoft were great through the last two generations, they single handed my made FPS viable on console and made online gaming something that could appeal to the masses. Outside of that they created and collaborated on all kinds of great projects spanking a wide variety of genres.
This generation they've done strawberry float all, Forza aside nothing but a bunch of mediocre titles cashing in on franchises they worked so hard to build up over the previous generations.
Microsoft of old are, unfortunately, dead.