| M.U.G.E.N said: @Kresnik: I said XBone because of the 180 'and' because I think they will go the extra mile first year or two with support for the system to get the core crowd. But yeah I am more likely to go back to PC gaming before I purchase a home console again if sony keeps this up. I was a PC gamer primarily before this gen. |
This is precisely why even after 180 I have very little interest in XBOne. I bought an original Xbox near launch in Europe (came out March 2002 for £299 this was approx 50% more than the US retail despite being nearly 6 months later)) by December 2005 there were no games being released for it at all because MS told all developers to focus on Xbox 360 100% instead.
Xbox 360 I actually bought on release in 2005 because I was so in love with games like Moto GP and Xbox Live's online infrastructure was way better than what the PS2 offered and Nintendo still hadn't discovered the internet. First 2-3 years were phenomenal. Lots of JRPGs, unique interesting games, MS's desire to please gamers like me was wonderful.
Then they hit it. The became popular and outsted the early PS3 efforts. What ensued? Total reliance on 3rd parties for software that wasn't 3 core franchises and Kinect. It took a 4th RROD for me to see this, as by then it was out of even the extended warranty and so I had to turn to my Blu-ray Player, also known as a PS3 for my home console gaming for a while until I could afford a replacement 360. In that time I was introduced to Infamous, Uncharted, God of War 3 and Little big planet etc.
So I got back to my Xbox 360, and scoured the internet for all the wonderful exclusives I'd missed. Alan Wake was alright, Crackdown 2 was meh after how blown away I was with the first one and that was pretty much it...
Even 3 years on I struggle to find much on the the 360 that I can't get elsewhere and at the moment, having poured hundreds, if not thousands of pounds into the 360 in the earlier years, I'm really skeptical that MS will continue to diversify their lineup past the opening couple of years for Xbox One. They seem the most happy of all the manufacturers to rely on 3rd party releases once they have the audience at a certain point.
Hopefully I'll be wrong, but that's twice now I feel MS have badly burned me as a "core" gamer. So I'll be waiting for a price drop on the XBOne before I "Jump in".
RIP Dad 25/11/51 - 13/12/13. You will be missed but never forgotten.
