Pemalite said:
Azuren said:
Right, but what happens when a console has NO exclusives? Well, I can either get a PC and a PS4 to get roughly 90% of the games released within 8th Gen, or I can get a PC and an XB1 and have a fairly redundant library. It's an even more extreme scenerio of PS3 vs XB360; most of their libraries were shared to the point that unless you just HAD to have Halo and God of War it was almost a bad decision to buy both.
The only way I can see the crossbuy thing working out in the end is if you have an XB1 and a Gaming Laptop, allowing you to take your games on the go. And even then: why not just get a laptop $300 more powerful instead?
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Valid point.
With that said.. The Original Xbox didn't really have any exclusives, they were all on PC (Halo, Fable etc') and they still managed to beat Nintendo's Gamecube which had a ton more exclusives (StarFox, Mario, Zelda, Metroid etc'.)
I do own an Xbox One and Multiple PC's though, the value I find is that they are platforms that don't really compete with each other in the traditional sense... But they are platforms that augment each other.
Being able to buy a game on my Xbox One and play it in the loungeroom on a 65" screen... And then jump into bed and play that same game on my Laptop... Or having someone play on my Xbox One and I am on my high-end Desktop and playing that exact same game together... That's a big sell for me.
Most people are more interested in what their friends own, what games they are playing and rather play with them, that was one of the draw cards for the Xbox 360 and Call of Duty over the Playstation 3 for tons of people.
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I don't feel comparing anything to Nintendo home consoles is a relevant argument anymore. With the exception of Wii's casual demographic, Nintendo home consoles have made less and less every generation. A better way to look at it is "OG Xbox was more powerful than PS2, but was outsold 10:1." In addition to that, the PC crowd was only a fraction back then of what it is now. Being on PC meant you could say "Yeah, this game is exclusive" and everyone would agree.
Losing exclusives altogether has simply turned Xbox into Microsoft's very own steam machine.
