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S.T.A.G.E. 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).

Microsoft's first party output during the 360 was tremendous, prompting me to get an Xbox 360. When Shane Kim was running things, the focus was on games. I wasnt the biggest fan of Fable, because seriously, thats the weakest RPG on gods green earth, but it was interesting to play for a little while. I never noticed Crackdown because the buzz for it was low and it went past my radar. For me the highest point of the Xbox One was the first year, actually. Sunset Overdrive and Ryse were pretty good exclusives, when didnt have many games to fight back and their first party was working on the higher tier exclusives. 

Even as good as Microsoft generation was with the 360, the PS3 still exclipsed it in new IP's,first, second and third party support. Thats how Sony closed the 8 million console gap, when Microsoft was having exclusive droughts and tried to use the Kinect to keep Sony at bay. It only worked for two years.