S.T.A.G.E. said:
Xbox has has plenty of gamers who buy exclusives, but they just have fewer beloved franchises than other platforms because Microsoft lack of development skill created a culture where exclusives are less valuable and thus less viable to consumers. It's the polar opposite of what nintnedo did with third party. They make game so so high in quality that third party can barely survive when their games are dumbed down for their tech. Now that ea has slightly threatened (with their decisions) the future of single player games people are giving their respect to Sony and nintnedo because when it is all said and done they are where the traditional exclusive culture is on consoles. The last bastion of quality exclusive single player gaming. |
lol why would MS have as many beloved franchises as Nintendo, who was in the console business for literally decades before them, or Sony, who when MS entered the industry, was just coming off one megaton successful console and was a year into an even bigger one? Also, beloved franchises is an extremely subjective label. Also, if MS is creating a culture where exclusives matter less, then why do you make a big deal about them? Microsoft obviously doesn't care if they are creating that culture. Xbox fans certainly must not care if they're buying into that culture. Like I said, it's for nothing more than list warz.
Also people have been doomsday predicting the death of single player games for years now. It's no different than when EA Access launched and suddenly it needed to fail because then every single publisher was going to launch their own service and then you'd need to subscribe to 10 different services just to get full access to your games. Games as a service is a thing, publishers are embracing it. Sony has embraced it. Nintendo to a lesser extent with something like Splatoon has embraced it. Single player games aren't going anywhere on any platform, they'll always be around. Microsoft has brought us plenty of them this gen already.
