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The thing that I keep coming back to whenever this is inevitably brought up (Microsoft being the first, I believe,) was 'Okay, sooo Xbox gamers are more satisfied? ...WHY?'

If we want to bring up facts, it's a fact that the Xbox 360's available content, (obviously referring to exclusive content) slanted heavily towards Kinect-only titles after the release of the Kinect. Meaning if you didn't have a Kinect, or weren't satisfied with only Kinect games, the available lineup of new exclusive titles on the 360 dried up pretty darn quickly. o.o Compared to the PS3's strong performance during the final years leading up to the PS4, in fact, the 360 just dropped the ball in a pretty big way.

So, especially given I've seen PLENTY of people on the Xbox side go on about how much better the Xbox One's exclusive lineup is than the PS4's this year, my question is; if the range and number, variety etc of exclusives is really so super duper important, than why on Earth would late-gen 360 gamers be 'more satisfied' than PS3 gamers, when they've had substantially less new content for two to three years, outside fidgity motion games?

I mean, sure, we could insist that the Kinect is pure-gold awesome, but I don't really buy that, given the less than fuzzy reception its successor received from the wider audience. If the argument here is 'Halo is so incredibly awesome, the Xbox 360 didn't actually NEED to have a diverse and sizable exclusives library to satisfy its user base, HALO IS ENOUGH.' then okaaay. o.o God knows there WERE people who would have been fine with just the few franchises Microsoft ended up focusing on, I'd just be really surprised if the majority of the userbase was that narrow in terms of tastes.

So yeah. =P I don't remember even Microsoft ever addressing that particular elephant in the room. Did they even really elaborate on WHY they thought their userbase was 'more satisfied?'



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