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S.T.A.G.E. on 04 May 2017
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Pemalite said:
KratosLives said:
When will you xbox guys realise that since the original xbox, it's been a failure, with the same emphasis on the same franchises gears and halo, forza being hyped, and failing on generating a solid list of first party titles, which is so inferior when compared to nintendo and Sony. I thought people would have realised towards the end of of xbox 360 not to fall for the same tricks, yet they still support the console through the xbox one, the worst of all time, and will still be there on the Scorpio. No matter how good e3 is, it will just be another hype job.

Because maybe people don't care about first party titles as much as others? There is more to a console than first party games.

I mean, you aren't wrong, 1st party games have always been their weakness, but there is more to a paltform than that.

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Microsoft Most of last gen for Microsofts first party was Halo, Fable and Forza.  Of course Microsoft published Gears back then. Gears was the key IP the 360 needed to keep its brand fresh as Fable was driven into the ground by Peter Molyneux. 

Microsoft had a sprinkling of other titles during the Xbox 360's life.

Early on we had Kameo and Perfect Dark, Halo 3 put the Xbox 360 on the map and showed it to be a real juggernaut.
That was followed up with Banjo-Kazooie, Forza, Fable, Blue Dragon, Crackdown, Saints Row... And had a few timed exclusives like Ass Effect, Ninja Gaiden 2, Alan Wake, The Last Remnant and more.
Can't forget some other notables like Naruto: Rise of a Ninja and The Broken Bond which are some of my personal favorites.

Microsoft eroded Sony's exclusive and 3rd party advantage last generation, that can't be denied.
Even games like Final Fantasy arrived on the Xbox console... And if you remember, people wen't spastic over that.

Compare that to the original Xbox which leveraged PC development (I.E. The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Doom, Half Life 2 etc'.) for a large chunk of it's Library... The Xbox 360 was a night and day difference.

That was in stark contrast to Sony where the Playstation 3 had Multiplats which often had inferior graphics, inferior performance.
Although Sony has certainly turned that around this generation, so props to them.

 I'll give it to you that Microsoft erroded Sonys third party exclusivity. Thankfully they did, because look at Sony today. The difference cannot even be denied by spencer. He admitted the other day that when talking about tomb raiders timed exclusivity that they tried to make a competitor to Uncharted but could not and so they did what they had to do with Tomb Raider to compete. Sonys first party was always better than Microsofts and they kept growing stronger with every generation. Microsofts is still trying to figure out where it stands. They still lack identity. They'll take any game from anyone at this rate. Spencer also conceded the issues with Single player games...which is telling about how the games sell on their platform. I think its not just sales but a quality control issue that Microsoft has always had. Ill agree with you that Microsofts existence with the 360 was night and day different than the xbox one, but honestly, Listing Rare games didnt stop rare from losing respect as a developer while under Microsoft. They will need a miracle to get back in everyones graces. I mean Guerilla game never fell as far as Rare, but today they are one of the top Studios now after the Killzone series fell.