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Zekkyou on 13 March 2017
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Snoopy said:
Zekkyou said:

If you're focused on quality (which i assume you measure through critical reception), shouldn't you be including MS in your argument? I do personally agree that Sony's output this generation has been worse (though the PS4 in general has been an improvement for me), but i feel that's doubly true for MS. They seem to be really struggling to push out major releases capable of garnering anything close to the kind of positive reception they were seeing last gen. Forza is the only major exception, with their best received titles outside of that being Gears 4 and Halo 5 (both sitting at 84).

It's certainly possible you'll end up being right, but it seems as bit excessive to come to condemn them on the basis of speculation. 

1. I was focus on both quality and quantity.

2. Microsoft output has been about the same compare to previous generation. Yes, Halo, Gears , Forza is being used quite a bit. During the 360 generation Microsoft only seemed better because of the third party titles they got first , but they weren't too much better in terms of first party. I just wish we got a Fable game finally. Microsoft has supported a lot of games that are exclusives/console exclusives that they don't own but aren't on Sony platform. However, Xbox one to me has always been about the best place to play my multi platform games (the games I spend 95% of my time) for console such as my favorite online network, my favorite controller, features/UI,ect and now with scorpio the games should run and play significantly better than any console. Plus I like online games a lot and Microsoft/EA offers me the best multiplayer games imo (I'm addicted to Halo Wars 2 right now).

The overall number of titles they've been publishing (your qualifier from an earlier discussion) has been comparable, but the reception of those titles has been considerably less positive. MS had published 5 90+ titles by this point last gen, and many more 80+. If you want to follow a different definition to earlier and remove various 360 titles from the comparison then fine, but all that does is shift the discussion from "MS have seen a dip in quality" to "MS have always under-performed". Neither is particularly positive for MS.

As i said, i do agree Sony have under-performed on the publishing front compared to last gen, but MS fit quite snugly in the same box.