padib said:
This. I think that people have taken a habit of bashing Xbox. As a Nintendo fan, I know exactly what this is because Nintendo was the laughingstock for a few generations until they picked themselves back up. Now, Microsoft has finally figured it out. I think Xbox fans should understand what is happening and support Microsoft, talk about what's happening, and buying their games to show support. At the same time, the fans need to be vocal about how digital gaming already kind of ruined movies with Netflix, where some favorites are simply stripped of the store without much notice, making us kind of slaves to the system. I hope this never happens with gaming. Gamepass aside, MS is definitely making all the right moves right now and we need to encourage that because better competition makes for better gaming overall. Let's see what cool things this new pressure on Sony and Nintendo brings out in the market! |
I think there are too many people that left the Xbox ecosystems and they simply don't understand how good the service got for Xbox customers.
Service like smart delivery, enhanced backward compatibility, game pass, and support for all of the last generation accessories is really a system seller that needs to be experienced.
While the quality and quantity of games did take a hit last generation there was a huge problem with the direction that Don Mattrick had taken and Microsoft had to do some serious adjustment or leave the gaming space. They went above and beyond the last generation to improved the services and direction and they only really started addressing the problem of Quality and quantity of games with last year's studio's acquisitions. The recent acquisition of Zenimax studios is Microsoft going above and beyond to make the Xbox ecosystem the best console gaming experience. They took back the power narrative from Sony, they continued to improve on their industry-leading services and is really posed to outdo themself when it comes to software for their consoles and ecosystem.
The biggest thing that Microsoft did is moving beyond locking its customers to a single console. The focus is now really on games rather then what can be played exclusively on the console. Only when a game can no longer be ported to the old generation console should it be next-generation exclusive. Microsoft was obviously ahead of the game when they pledge support for Xbox One and leaving up to the studios on which gave should be next-gen consoles exclusive.
