| Mr Puggsly said: Do you honestly believe better looking games would have made the Xbox One X a huge success? I doubt it. However, it probably did pretty well. A base Xbox One plays all the same games well enough. This is why I hope a much cheaper Series S is on the market as well, it should help the userbase. |
Games can sell consoles. Games can make or break a console.
The Original Xbox was slow getting out of the gate... Until we got Halo, which then put that particular console on the map.
The Xbox 360 was doing pretty bad due to the RROD image disaster, Halo 3 turned that sentiment around fairly quickly.
Breath of the Wild made the Switch a "must have device" in it's early years.
Sony has taken a strong narrative by showcasing the next-gen leap that the Playstation 5 is offering, it's given gamers a reason to buy one early, what reason is there to buy an Xbox Series X? It's not providing a tangible leap over the Xbox One, all it's games are available elsewhere... And you get arguably better visuals on technically inferior platforms like the Playstation 5.
The Xbox One X was never going to be a "roaring" success due to being painted with the Xbox One brand brush, but I don't think it even managed to be a marginal success like even the Playstation 4 Pro... Part of that is likely due to the lack of exclusives on Microsofts behalf to even push the Xbox One into the mind of gamers and truly showcase what it can do.
Now I am not personally fussy about a game being actually exclusive or not, I don't even care if it spans multiple console generations... It doesn't affect me personally even in the slightest. - Other people care about that stuff though.
But I am fussy if it's not going to showcase the hardware appropriately to it's fullest extent... And I think that should apply to everyone, we should expect the absolute best possible product for any given platform we use.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
