The Fall of Xbox - Video by Videogamedunkey

[Tulipanzo]

It's unsurprising that this is such a popular sentiment, which is really what this is about.
You can try and deflect by talking about how Dunkey isn't good or serious, but the main point is that most people looked at a video trashing Xbox's past gen and a half and went "yeah, checks out".
If I had to hazard as to the reason why, it's because, unlike Sony and Nintendo, they've never tried to expand their audience to people who don't already like XBox.


I ran a thought experiment: what would happen if, for whatever reason, I didn't like the three core franchises of each publisher?
That is, what if I didn't like Nintendo (Mario, Zelda, Smash), Sony (Uncharted, GOW, Gran Turismo) or Microsoft's (Halo, Gears, Forza) principal output?
With Nintendo, I'd still have Fire Emblem, Kirby, Metroid, Astral Chain and a myriad other.
With Sony I'd have Bloodborne, Until Dawn, Horizon: Zero Dawn, the Yakuza series, Ratchet and Clank and more.
However with MS? Well, if you don't care for their big three franchises you're mostly sol