While I was mostly a 360 gamer during 2008 to 2012. These days though I do find myself being more of a Nintendo and Sony gamer then an Xbox gamer. But that hasn't stop me from being very interested in seeing what Microsoft has their up sleveas which we will find out in a couple weeks at E3.
While Nintendo does some niche titles later this year like Fire Emblem Warriors and Xenoblade 2 they do have Super Mario Odyssey. Now the trailer for Super Mario Odyssey has over 21 million views on youtube and just going by that trailer and that this is the same team who made the galaxy games its a safe bet this is another BOTW in terms of quality and will easily move Switch's out of the shelves this holiday. Plus there are the rumor port of Smash 4 and the third verion of Pokemon Sun and Moon. If those 2 rumors are true then I think its a strong possiblity that the Switch can even beat the PS4 this holiday.
While I am willing to bet that God Of War and Spider-Man (the 2 biggest console selling exclusives Sony currently has in the works) is next year they do though have the marketing deals for what I would say this holiday's biggest games. Destiny 2, Call Of Duty World War 2, and Star Wars Battlefront 2. While on forums Destiny does get a lot of hate its still a very popular game even among causal gamers and CoD WW2 isn't getting the backlash Infinite Warfare got, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 is being released 1 month before The Last Jedi. So reguardless on how we all think of these games its hard to deny that they won't be among this years top sellars espically Battlefront. Now while they are all on Xbox One, Sony does have the marketing deal and this is why that is important. Imagine yourself as a casual gamer who maybe only buys like 2 to 3 games a year and you see ads for those 3 games and you see the playstation logo at the end of them your mind will probably instantly associate them with Playstation and if you do get console for any of them you will probably lean towards Playstation and that is if you heard of the Xbox One version. That is why marketing deals are important its basically to get the cauals to associate third games with a certain console. While Microsoft does the marketing for Shadow Of War and while LOTR is of course very popular it doesn't have any LOTR names except Middle Earth on it and even then Star Wars is without a doubt a bigger brand then Lord Of Rings. Finally these marketing deals could also hurt the Scorpio by preventing third parties from showing the Scorpio verion of those games.
Finally Microsoft has dropped the ball with exclusives this gen. Now you can be a fan of games like Ryse Son Of Rome, and Qunatum Break that is fine but lets face it none of MS games this generation have huge system sellars or critically acclaim except for maybe the Forza Horizon series. While I am sure games like Crackdown 3, Sea Of Thieves, Forza 7, and State Of Decay will be fun. They aren't a system sellar like Breath Of The Wild nor a critical darling like Persona 5 and even if 343 is lying about no Halo this year I doubt Halo 6 will be that big of a system sellar since I imagine a good amount Halo fans already bought an Xbox One for MCC, Halo 5, and Halo Wars 2 and even that is a franchise on the decline from both a crtical and finnacal stand point.
They failed to get third party marketing deals for the biggest multiplatform release this year and lack the system sellers that their competition has. But yet while this depressing for the Xbox brand espically with Scorpio releasing this holiday I am still very interested in their E3 conference this year in fact it might be the one I am most curious about just to on the curiousity on what they have in store for the Scorpio besides its specs.
