When all's said and done, Xbox has done its penance

Done with the usual suspects? Nohing new, an update for racer XYZ, mediocre spaceshooter ABC, and that not too well selling timed exclusive. That is all what it needs for MS to do their penance? After the major fuckup pre launch, the overall design of the console, having the weaker hardware resulting in inferior mulitplatt?

And there are encouraging signs that, in 2016, it will do just that.

Biased? Author should have cut it short and simply write "i'm a hardcore xbox cowboy and i don't like japanese crap cars, yeehaw!".

Turns out that the good favour has lasted another 12 months, and the promises are starting to pile up. 2016's party is going to have to be pretty special.

Sure, but MS has encouraging signs... with one exclusive in the first month.

Pfhaha, good one!

Best Console version? Really?  So theres technically 2 ps4 exclusives and 6 ps4 games on the list. Though I don't know what this has to do with that writers opinion on the consoles situation throughout the year as a whole. I 

Microsoft's major IP's have got released but one of them was just a remake and not a new game. As for reviewing well? Sony's major IP's Gran Turismo, God Of War & Uncharted all review well, just like Halo, Gears Of War and Forza do. Besides are reviews everything, or does personal opinion still matter?

The Xbox article treated the lack of exclusives for most of the year as perfectly fine, while the PS article criticised its lineup because the first exclusive of the year The Order was a dud, and minimalized the importance of Bloodborne and Until Dawn because they were "hardcore and not mainstream".

Gears remake was treated as a great reason to own an Xbox, but God Of War III & Uncharted NDC were either not mentioned or their importance understated, even though Uncharted NDC includes 3 games instead of one and has gameplay improvements in one of the games it includes.

Then with little else to criticise they had to say that Horizon's name was lame, I mean that is a really dumb statement and not even true. Then they say No Man's Sky would sell well if nothing else, prejudging it with little to back it up and being negative without reason. In the Xbox article they are praising Microsoft's 2016 lineup again prejudging it and being too optimistic about it, as many of them could be duds.

They also state the obvious hardware difference not being anything to care about even though in their own DF articles the differences in various multiplatform games being major.

Also when you write such articles, good journalism demands the criticisms or praise to be more subtle, and not doing so in every statement of the article but only where their are points raised, which aren't true for either of these articles.

EDIT: Also they say that The Last Guardian's release is ambiguous even though it has been said that it will come in 2016, the author didn't even research properly. You can't make statements like that when their is evidence of the opposite being true.

Well I had Bloodborne and The Order (I enjoyed it) for first half of 2015 and Until Dawn, Dragon Quest Heros, and Tales of Zesteria for the send half exclusive wise (there were more but this os what I bought.

X1 gave me nothing first half and Gears Ultimate, RotTR, Rare Replay, and Halo 5 (passed on their one other retail exclusive Forza 6).

Both have done me well so articles like this make me roll my eyes with how painfully hard they try to play down PS4.

I don't have any of the consoles, but based on catalogue and a slightly better performance on PS4, I'd say PS4 has won this year by miles. But to each his own, obviously.

It's kind of funny, really.

It's like you have a kid who has screwed up a lot and a kid who has been conscientious right from the start. The screw-up starts doing better and gets overly praised for it, while the good kid gets a disapproving frown if it pulls a B+ on a test.

Right now, Microsoft's best move is that they started out so badly. They can literally do anything and they get a doggy treat and a pat on the head.

That's fine, though. The bad part here is that major publications seem to be racing to see who can pull down the PS4. They aren't judging with the same criteria and they appear to be picking at any loose threads to see if they can find hidden faults. Most of the compliments are grudging and usually followed with a shallow criticism.

What is the agenda here? Why are they going out of their way to be less than fair? It's an interesting question.

Also, I've got to say, I question the intelligence of any writer who cannot see the difference between a major publisher like Square whoring out a multi-platform series as a timed exclusive and a new, independent Japanese studio forming a one-game partnership with Sony.

Another annoyance is how, for some reason, exclusives only count if you release them during the holiday season--a period that is already crammed with blockbusters. If there is ever a time when you should not release most exclusives, it's during the holiday season. Just ask Tomb Raider.

Interesting read

That is fucking cringe worthy.

Who wrote those articles? Crap Gamer?

And heres my review

Its not just about Japan and a Niche game. Its clear as day which company is trying and which one is sitting in the high chair watching.