Remember back at the start of the year?  "Best lineup in Xbox history"

Xbox Lineup was Scalebound, Sea of thieves, State of decay, Crackdown 3, Cup-head.

Now everyone of those has been delayed (2018) or cancelled, except for cup-head.

Lateron Xbox got Super Luckys Tale, which looks okay, its def. a smaller title but it could be fun.

And another Forza, cuz you dont already have like 6 of them to play on your Xbox One already.

Am I the only one wondering what the heck is going on with their first party games output?

Double post

Lets be honest I know you JRPG and I know you don't like xbox much and this poll kind of reflects that, I meen there is more then cuphead and its a little bit of a troll but il forgive you since I like you but still

On topic:
Anyway, this year has been horrible for people who want exclusive games on Microsofts console and if you are not excited for the Xbox one X then you have a pretty bad year all around for the Xbox.

The NPD and other sales charts reflect other people feel the same way you do and Playstation and Nintendo are the obvious choices for most people.

I don't see the issue with it. Best line up of games was Halo, Gears, Forza and TR.
Not sure where the "2017 was there best line up of games" came from. Maybe best new ips but never was going to be there best line up.
Just give me Halo Wars 2 Xpac. Thats all i want.

The problem I have with Microsoft, Phil Spencer, and how they're running Xbox is that their solution to criticism is essentially to just play an entirely different sport from Sony and Nintendo. Every answer to every issue is a non-solution. They gained PR for having a representative that is essentially the definition of "nice guy"(even though he delivers very little and just gets attention for stating the obvious - like you could switch this guy with your average logical youtuber and there'd be no difference), they made deals that were more consumer friendly for gamers(like the Xbox One's price, the efficiency of the Xbox One Slim, and the Scorpio's "true 4k"), they brought backwards compatibility as a feature to inflate their library, and they made every Xbox exclusive into a Windows exclusive as well to be "consumer friendly", which is going to be hilarious when Halo 6 comes out and it's only on Xbox. Not to mention Phil said they'd stop exclusive third party content; they didn't. And beyond that Phil was very quite about many Xbox games coming to PC until right before their release.

Not only do a lot of their PR moves end up hurting them, but they show that Microsoft would rather make updates to their policies rather than make their console worth something. It reminds me of the short time period where Sega started selling Dreamcasts at a reduced price in the mid 2000's, and just like Xbox One they had success, but it was essentially a dead system.

And frankly it's a fucking shame. Because, I love that a competitive market has backed Microsoft into a corner to be more consumer friendly. But it doesn't result in a better product for the most essential part : the games.

But at the same time, I have to except that if I was a single platform owner, I might be more excited. And if I liked every triple A game, I might be happy. But I'm not and I don't, and I think that's true for a lot of Xbox-ers nowadays.

I thought I remembered Phil saying that about this year, but apparently he said that in 2015, which is when Halo, Gears Ultimate, Forza, and TR2 came out. Odd.

I guess unless there's some super secret tweet JRPG and a lot of other users on this site are misinformed?

Well I honestly thought the best lineup in Xbox history was 2016. And it was truly great indeed. This year has been and will be the worst even though I loved Halo Wars 2. At least there's some nice multiplats releasing.

It's the only Lineup with Cuphead in it.

Well the writing was on the walls since the later days of the 360. They stopped investing and just pumped out their top 3 franchises yearly.

It's a shame. I don't know if its Phil's fault or not, but they aren't in a very good position. I guess they did a market research that said people care more about power than games? I dunno. But i doubt that is the case.

Microsoft needs to do something drastic if they want to keep beeing competition because they are losing alot of goodwill and it's gonna make it even harder for them to turn it around.
It's amazing that they didn't take the hint after Sony's example with the PS3 of how to make a failure into a sucess.

And btw... getting Minecraft wasn't it. Waste of dollars.

I believe Phil described 2015 as the best lineup in Xbox history, not 2017. Had he used those words to describe 2017 he'd be hauled off to an insane asylum.

Honestly I think 2016 was the best year for Xbox One, although none of the XOne years compare favorably to the best years for Xbox and Xbox 360. 2017 will probably go down as the worst year not just for Xbox One but for any Xbox system.