Xbox Exec Responds To Claims That Microsoft Has Too Few Exclusives In 2017

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

LudicrousSpeed said:

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.

It has nothing to do with knowing whether you're buying into a culture. A culture becomes a constant based on how a company produces games or acquires them and how the fans respond. Micorsoft could've had good single player games but never made single player games that hit the mark. However they took the next step where Nintendo opened up the console realm to fps games after goldeneye with halo. There's no doomsday prediction but people have spoken out about working with Microsoft and honestly the company is just not creative. Nintnedo created a culture of gaining bad third party sales because they made their platforms in a way that endorses only first party to make use of their platforms best and third parties refuse do to adapt to their unique hardware with their sought after multiplatform games. (Back to microsoft though micoroft  think like EA businesswise. Micorsoft has brought us some games that did not guarantee sequels because the culture of the core Xbox gamer said the demand for single player games is not there. Sometimes I wish black tusk has kept making that rumored new ip so Xbox gamers could at least say they got a hot new shooter.

Your first sentence and second sentence contradict one another. If fans continue buying into an ecosystem where exclusive games are not important and the company who handles that ecosystem then continues to supposedly not prioritize exclusive games then yes, those consumers are doing it knowingly. Which means exclusives aren't as important to them. So again, why the big deal? If you want a couple exclusive single player games a year then go to Nintendo or Sony. Microsoft is clearly not interested, nor is their fanbase apparently. You're literally making my argument for me, lol. Not every company needs to read from the same playbook. Also, let's not act as if Sony constantly puts out amazing single player experiences. They didn't even put a real single player component into Gran Turismo, lol.

@ bolded. Ok, so they're apparently catering to their fanbase. Guess that's a bad thing. And yeah Black Tusk working on Gears might suck, guess we'll never know. Similar to how SSM was pulled off a supposedly great new IP to go back to churning out another God of War.