The Sorry State of Microsoft's First Party

[Chris Hu]

Farsala said:

Chris Hu said:

8 of the top 10 best selling 360 games where third party same thing applies to the X1.  The original X Box has four first party games and some third party exclusives in its top ten best selling games.  So yeah the 360 didn't really sell better because of better first party games.  X1 sold a lot less then the 360 is mostly due to the terrible launch.  

@bold Not sure what you are considering launch, but the XB1 did pretty well at launch until they admitted their error with the forced kinect. After that all sales dropped in anticipation for the new kinectless SKU's. Titanfall and other games kept the forced kinect SKU's selling quite well during launch.

I'm pretty sure the launch would have been a lot better if the system would have been $100 dollars cheaper and launched without the Kinect.  The PS1 kicked the Saturns ass at launch since it was $100 dollars cheaper, of course launching the 32X late in the Genesis life cycle and loosing Electronic Arts as a third party publisher didn't help either.