If you're people are always in PR mode, you have a problem. Exclusives are what make consoles different than PCs. MS barely has any. If you have an insignficant number of exclusives, you have a problem. Why are they in the industry again?

It is a touchy subject but it is hard to deny it, Switch total software sales are dominated by it's first party titles something you can't say about PS4 or Xbox one.  I think it is pretty rare that someone got a Switch but not a first party title with it while it is more common for people who buy a PS4 and certainly for Xbox one. PS4 and Xbox one sell because of third party and for the last one especially. The xbox one may sell 50-80 million games this year but less than 10% of those sales will be for first party games and I even believe that xbox one will sell more hardware this year than all of their first party game sales this year (someone may do the math) only if you include minecraft I will be totally wrong.

There's just not alot of exclusives on pc that gamers/normies care about in comparison to how many exclusives that are on pc. It has alot of shovelware but that's mainly  because anyone can make a game with no standard of quality and put it out on it. I'm not saying it doesn't have any massive hits or good games. It has alot of those but it also has a shit ton of shovelware.  

Of course, I'm almost 700 games deep into StarCraft 2 Legacy of the Void, (great game BTW). What I was getting at is that exclusives define a console. Without them, all you have is a crippled, underpowered, locked-down, and closed-off PC. MOBAs and RTS are exclusively PC genres (Halo Wars 1& 2 are crippled games without hotkeys). I didn't mean to imply that PC has no exlcusives.

There's just not alot of exclusives on pc that gamers/normies care about in comparison to how many exclusives that are on pc. It has alot of shovelware but that's mainly  because anyone can make a game with no standard of quality and put it out on it. I'm not saying it doesn't have any massive hits or good games. It has alot of those but it also has a shit ton of shovelware.  

Of course, I'm almost 700 games deep into StarCraft 2 Legacy of the Void, (great game BTW). What I was getting at is that exclusives define a console. Without them, all you have is a crippled, underpowered, locked-down, and closed-off PC. MOBAs and RTS are exclusively PC genres (Halo Wars 1& 2 are crippled games without hotkeys). I didn't mean to imply that PC has no exlcusives.

All platforms have a ton of shovelware. But the amount of shovelware doesn't diminish the amount of great games.

PC has a tons of exclusives. Great exclusives. And 10's of millions of PC gamers actually enjoy them, sorry that you don't.
A real gamer doesn't give a shit about the platform, they give a shit about the games.

I don't actually disagree with you.

What got me into the Xbox ecosystem in the first place was because of exclusives like Halo.
And what got me into the Playstation ecosystem was because of games like Final Fantasy.
And what got me into the Nintendo ecosystem was Metroid.
And what got me into the PC ecosystem was games like Dune.

Exclusives are important. Up to a point... 3rd party multiplats are also important, you need both to appeal to as many gamers as you can... Not everyone actually gives a shit about Halo, Final Fantasy, Metroid or Dune for instance, but will play Call of Duty to death.

Exclusives matter, but people who are defending Xbox dont seem to be depending on where it applies. Exclusives might sell less than they used to, but they stabalize the yearly sales of a platform and keeps mindshare solely on that platform.  All the month to month topics will revolve around your platform and eventually if you're good enough something will stick with the masses. With Nintendo all it took was time. Phil Spencer has also said that even though exclusives are strongest with Nintendo that Sony and Nintendo both excel at single player experiences and that the culture responds as such. You cannot have that reception if you do not create the culture. Xbox fans are looking towards a culture with Microsoft where exclusives are not important and that is why you've come to that conclusion. Traditionally speaking with consoles that has never been in question until Microsoft got here. We all know exclusives matter, but we never questioned their relevance until Microsoft. We know full well that the Xbox would've tanked without Halo or Gears though. 

Exclusives matter, but people who are defending Xbox dont seem to be depending on where it applies. Exclusives might sell less than they used to, but they stabalize the yearly sales of a platform and keeps mindshare solely on that platform.  All the month to month topics will revolve around your platform and eventually if you're good enough something will stick with the masses. With Nintendo all it took was time. Phil Spencer has also said that even though exclusives are strongest with Nintendo that Sony and Nintendo both excel at single player experiences and that the culture responds as such. You cannot have that reception if you do not create the culture. Xbox fans are looking towards a culture with Microsoft where exclusives are not important and that is why you've come to that conclusion. Traditionally speaking with consoles that has never been in question until Microsoft got here. We all know exclusives matter, but we never questioned their relevance until Microsoft. We know full well that the Xbox would've tanked without Halo or Gears though.