Why such a huge gap in quality between Playstation and Xbox exclusives?

[VanceIX]

sales2099 said:

VanceIX said:
Xbox doesn't have much variety. The target audience of Xbox is perfectly content with shooters like Halo and the occasional Fable or Forza, so Microsoft has almost no need to expand IPs, as disappointing as that is.

Maybe 360 didn't in the last few years with retail, but XBLA certainly gave it the variety. 360 gamers certainly bought more then whatever was selling on PSN. Hell look at Minecraft for 360 and you see that it ain't all shooters for us.

That said, X1 has been great so far. Reintroducing Killer Instinct, Project Spark, 3rd party new IPs like Ryse, Quantum, Sunset Overdrive, while keeping up with the holy quad (Halo, Forza, Gears, and Fable). I get it that X1 is losing to PS4, but people should at least give credit to MS's efforts in games this gen.

X1 is certainly doing better than the 360 did, it remains to be seen whether their audience embraces the IPs, and if Microsoft will continue to support those IPs. There were many games on 360 that weren't on PS3, but I was alluding to Microsoft themselves expanding their IPs, which they didn't in the second half of last generation. Halo, Fable, and Forza all were IPs from the original Xbox, while Gears was added at the beginning of the generation. After that they (Microsoft) didn't release any new IPs of interest.

Meanwhile, Sony expanded their range of first-party IPs throughout the generation with games like Uncharted, Wipeout, LittleBigPlanet, Heavy Rain, Infamous, Resistance, and the Last of Us, while expanding older IPs like Gran Turismo, God of War, and Killzone. They also fostered the development of games like Journey and Flower. Of the Big 4 on Xbox, 2 are shooters, one is an RPG (which I actually like, I got my 360 for Fable 3), and one is a racing simulator. PS3 has all those, plus JRPGs, creative games (LittleBigPlanet), adventure games, cinematic games (Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls), etc. 

Sony simply annihalated Microsoft when it came to first party IPs last generation, and it remains to be seen how it will go this gen.