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| Spade said: What are yall's thoughts on the "xbox tax"? |
The events of 2023 have unequivocally proven what Xbox fans have suspected for years, the Xbox tax is indeed a very real phenomenon. First Starfield reviewed somehow lower than Fallout 4 in spite of being a significantly better and more ambitious game. Then Forza Motorsport reviewed lower than the previous two Forza Motorsport games in-spite of making huge leaps forward in terms of graphics, physics, gameplay, and accessibility compared to FM6 and FM7 (also scored below Sony's GT7 last year which was absolutely packed to the gills with expensive microtransactions). Then the ABK acquisition closed and somehow CoD for the first time ever gets a review average in the 50's (previous lowest average was like a 73, and from what I've heard from several non-critics who have played MW3 already, it is better than several past CoD games that scored higher in both campaign and multiplayer). Now come the Game Awards, and multiple Xbox/Zenimax/ABK games get noticeably snubbed for nominations on several categories, from Starfield to Diablo 4 to Forza Motorsport to HiFi Rush.
