| NYCrysis said:
dead rising, titanfall, sunset, and tomb raider would all exist one way or another. These publishers just wanted the easy route out with ms footing their bills for exclusivity. These deals were also prob made when xbox was more popular as well. Now that the tables have turned it's a whole different story now for these publishers. When Sony was market leader developers worked much harder and made much better games. Now after xbox gained a ton of marketshare and became market leader in the u.s. quality has faded and publishers and microsoft are rehashing the same franchise over and over. I DON'T want xbox to become as popular as the 360 EVER again!!!! |
That really irked me last gen. In a 200m dash, you don't sprint the first 100m and then, do a light jog for the last half. Similar thing applies here.
However, does MS really have any other choice with these deals? MS knows that they're falling behind in exclusives, especially in 2015. Getting timed exclusivity for Tomb Raider was a smart move on MS's part (and supremely dumb, on SE's part). The other problem with the X1 is the taste of the system's userbase. It's pretty obvious that Halo and Gears will sell well as well as sports games and major 3rd party franchises like COD. However, what about the other games that don't fall under those genres? Last gen, reception towards non-shooters/action and sports games from the 360 userbase was pretty anemic with the exception of Forza. Heck, Forza Horizon 2 didn't even reach the Top 10 in software sales according to September NPD despite getting good reviews. So while MS can churn out exclusive after exclusive, will much of the X1 userbase actually buy RPGs, platformers, sandboxes, and other non-dudebro genres? I'm very skeptical that it will.
Another huge problem is the image that X1 exclusives aren't really exclusives. We saw what happened with Ryse and Dead Rising 3. I remember two of MoHassanie's threads regarding the exclusivity of Sunset Overdrive and Halo. Neither dev shot down the possibility of the two IPs going to PC and/or PS4. The lack of confidence of the actual status of these two games' exclusivity is pretty telling. Similar thing applies to Quantum Break, considering Alan Wake eventually came out on PC. It would benefit MS if they actually keep X1 exclusives exclusive to the X1.
