2017 was solid year for Xbox One sales in spite of exclusvies.

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said: 

Mr Puggsly said:

I agree 360 had more true exclusives than X1. But 360 thrived primarily due to mistakes Sony made with PS3, not so much true exclusives. I mean the 360 couldnt have done as well as it did without Sony dropping the ball with PS3. Meanwhile, X1 hasnt declined from sharing games with PC, sales have been steady. The X1 had a bad launch, that hurt X1 more than sharing games with PC ever has. Hence, you neglect the major mistakes and just focus on PC getting Xbox games.

The 360 also had the right game, the right franchise at the right time that helped bury the RROD fiasco.
Halo was on top of the entire gaming industry, Halo 3 pushed consoles, it was being talked about on Social media, on the news... In news papers. It was everywhere.

A single exclusive can make a stupidly massive difference.

Mr Puggsly said:

The ODST campaign came to MCC when much of the online problems were addressed. Adding Reach would have been nice, maybe it will happen eventually. Maybe! That would be a good way to reboot MCC.

They did backwards compatibility with Reach, last time I tried it on the base Xbox One it was unplayable though due to extremely low framerates and horrendous frame pacing and input lag, probably been a ton of updates since then though, so I really should give it another spin.

I doubt Reach will come to the Master Chief Collection, having it at 60fps though would be amazing and worth another play through just for that though. Just don't see any new content being added to that game.

Mr Puggsly said:

They might have spent a billion on games since 2013. Think about EVERY release since then, games currently in development, games cancelled, marketing for those games, perhaps exclusive deals, etc.

Well. They also potentially lost hundreds of millions from the cancellation of Fable and Scalebound.
But they did spend billions buying Mojang.

Mr Puggsly said:

You knew what X1 had coming and you knew you would play that content elsewhere. Thats why your X1X purchase makes no sense. Again, you actually argue your X1X purchase was dumb and we simply agree with you.

Who gives a shit why I bought the console? Seriously?
It has absolutely nothing to do with this and doesn't remove the fact I am entitled to have an opinion and it doesn't change the fact I am allowed to openly criticize the Xbox.

So get over it.

Mr Puggsly said:

Go buy a 4K TV already. If you had the money for an X1 then I bet you can afford a 4K TV. I mean why settle with a blurry 1440p monitor? If you're stuck with 1080p because your monitor, too bad. That's your problem for having the wrong display and we dont care.

1) I don't want a 4k TV.
2) I don't have a 4k TV.
3) I want the Xbox on my Monitor and not my TV.
4) TV's have inferior input lag.
5) My money. I'll buy what I want, when I want.
6) I am allowed to criticize the Xbox for lacking a certain feature that tons of gamers want, especially when Microsoft made the promise of 1440P support.

Mr Puggsly said:

I'm telling you MCC crashing will vary between pre and post patches. MCC went from disaster to staple thanks to patches.

It still has issues.  - Otherwise why would Microsoft/343 industries renew their commitment to fixing the game?

It has less issues now, sure. It's not 100% perfect.

I'm gonna put some arguments to rest.

Halo 3 simply didn't sell well enough to justify the 360's 80 million sales. You can't credit a single game or even a few games for that. The Halo games sold very well on OG Xbox but that console only sold 24 million.

You played Reach on BC before patches, the primary problem was frame pacing. Works fine now, probably better than 360.

Oh, I highly doubt they spent that much on Fable Legends and Scalebound. Games like that don't get a Halo or Gears budget. Fable Legends wasn't even a real Fable game, I played it. It was smaller scale project, arena style co-op game.

I've read that Fable Legends spent $75 million, but that would be incredible if true. I mean that's a bigger budget than Witcher 3. So if true, good riddance to Lionhead.

Not sure what the Mojang purchase has to do with anything. Still a popular IP though.

Again, you argue your X1X purchase was dumb and you knew it would be. Yet you act surprised the purchase was dumb. You just come off silly.

I believe somebody promised 1440p and it was quickly corrected to eventually come.

MCC will never be 100%, not sure if games really achieve that. But MCC has become a very functional product with room for improvement. Some of the potential improvements aren't just bugs by the way.

Last edited by Mr Puggsly - on 13 January 2018