konnichiwa said:
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Booting up the series console for the first time and seeing the dashboard just felt like a continuation of the Xbox one gen not bad not great, just Fine
Xbox dashboard is continually evolving, if it feels like a continuation of the Xbox One dashboard that's because it is, there's no point in evolving the dashboard in a gen-over-gen manner if you are continually evolving it anyway.
Holding the controller for the first time and see how it only got like an extra button makes it like they did not put much thought on it.....Well it is Fine for the gamers
Xbox Series controller does feature some great improvements over the Xbox One version but it sure is more subtle and there's a reason for that, it's the same reason Xbox controllers are consistently top-ranked on PC neutral ground vs competition.
Yeah great that you can have an external SSD card for Xbox but it is still so expensive....Making it Fine instead of great
Could be better but it is getting cheaper and also worth remembering Series X does offer more capacity by default.
Based on the comments in this thread the last years services like Gold doesn't even come close to being Fine, it really feels like they don't put any effort in the service and I would say stop with gold and make online free.
You're mixing gold and game with gold. Games with gold are what is lacking in quality and the competition doesn't fare any better overall.
Gamepass was on top but also dipped a bit in the last year and that's the only thing that feels like they put atleast some effort in...
On what ground is it supposed to have dipped? if this is about the quantity of AAA releases then it's the issue is not about Game Pass itself and Xbox sure is taking every step necessary to fix underlying issues.
Games in general, to name one thats going to be important later this year and could have his own controversy:
Forza Motorsport, fans are not happy with what's known so far, the amount of tracks and cars (only FM1 and FM2 had less) have them worried.
The game really feels like it is going to launch in a Forza Motorsport infinite situation, launch with not that much content and promises with updates later...
It gets even worse if you know that later on they changed the car list and removed some of them with a message basically saying that they are not in the base game and you can acquire them later one in some ways (battlepass? DLC? Events?) the worst that can happen is that the executives are Fine with it and release it in a state that the Forza community doesn't want....
Fans are just fans and worry about everything, the same is true for all franchises, here are Zelda fans worrying about tears of the kingdom because of a missing character in a trailer
Deals, hate them love them whatever but it really feels like at a meeting someone mentioned that Sony has + 20 deals and the answer was 'Thats Fine we have Naraka, Crossfire, Ark 2, Kojima Cloud game and Stalker 2 those games will define the Xbox series games experience...
The issue is Xbox doing AAA deals, they get trashed in public opinion court, Sony does it, they get praised as a results Xbox choose to focus on AA, 2nd party deals and PC port to Xbox with GamePass deals.
With Sony you feel they put effort in the controller, the PS plus games are way better and while they could not compete with gamepass they have introduced new services that honestly is improving fast and maybe already can compete with gamepass....
As mentioned earlier there are reasons why Sony needs to put more effort into their controller as opposed to Xbox, the same is true for PlayStation Plus offering.
And yeah they have remasters but they also put a lot of effort in making games and even had time to come up with VR.... Honestly doing more than what you may expected so yeah aiming for the 10/10 effort leading to Fans being happy, Gamers in general being happy, Reviewers being happy, Streamers being happy, Media being happy to even non gamers being happy with shows like The Last of US...
Sony doesn't aim to make every of their project 10/10 they just shut down projects that won't result in such, Xbox embrace more diversity in their offering even though some type don't review as well as other.
Lastly the discussion about Sony's and Xbox showcase doesn't mean so much when Sony will also have audience with geoffs summer of gaming event (death stranding 2), Tokyo game show where Ms only seems to announce games that were on Playstation and then oh boy we have the award show at the end of the year...
I didn't see anybody try to discredit other shows either and MS did fare very well in the 2021 award shows and could do as much in the future.
