Microsoft Has Put Themselves Back In The Game!

[Runa216]

sales2099 said:
Every negative narrative has been squashed.

Xbox One weaker: Series X stronger (and unlike Xbox X which came too late to make a difference, this is day 1).
Xbox more expensive: Series S $299 day 1. Almost impulse buy territory.
Non gaming direction: Kinect dropped, Phil Spencer adopting a “gamers first” approach
Value: Day One 1st party on Game Pass, plus the streaming and EA Play added for free. Cross gen free upgrades and save transfers
Backwards Compatibility: Goes back to OG Xbox. Series X optimizes old games resolution/FPS/load times without dev input.
1st Party: Went from 7 to 23 studios in 2 years. Crazy commitment to 1st party content with more studios to come.

The only negative narratives left that I can think of are that “the games aren’t out yet” and “Game Pass is not sustainable”. To me if these are the best people can think of then Xbox gonna go great next gen. Once things get going Xbox will have more exclusives per year then Sony, this is a mathematical certainty. Not like 2021 is lacking with heavy hitters like Halo Infinite and rumoured Starfield. As for Game Pass, people being “armchair economists” is just not a good argument. It’s false concern. If you can’t argue the value proposition, act like the business will go bankrupt any day now lol.

No, they really haven't, because of the second bolded part. The games aren't out yet. Some people expected Crackdown to be great, some people expected Sea of thieves to be great, some people expected Days Gone to be great, some people expected No Man's Sky to be great. Until the games are out, all the promises in the world mean nothing at all. Until the games are actually out, it's all hear-say, hope, and goodwill. They have no goodwill from me because, as I've stated dozens of times in this thread and others, they have not done anything to impress me over the past 10 years or so. 

Them buying all these companies is great, sure. It sounds good on paper, but time and time again they prove they can't create or maintain things. Hell, Halo was made by Bungie and was in development before Microsoft bought them out, then as soon as Bungie was gone the quality dipped. Bungie makes great Halo games, not Microsoft. Gears was Epic Games, not a Microsoft studio. It was essentially third party, and parts 4 and 5 have not been all that well recieved compared to the first three. Rare is a company I don't have to repeat since they've only done one worthwhile game in the past 10 years and that game was trashed at launch and took years to not completely suck. Nothing tells me that ANY of these promises matter. 

You can't just say 'they're doing everything right' without any actual data and numbers to back it up. They've messed up thoroughly and consistently over the past 10 years, and until they prove me and many others wrong, all their promises are empty. Until they actually start releasing games, all they have is goodwill from folks like you. They're doing the opposite of crying wolf. They keep declaring all manner of success and intent and not delivering; eventually, people gotta see through the smokescreen to see there's just a block of dry ice and no substance. It's all smoke and mirrors, no substance. Until proven, it's all hot air.