Should Xbox End their Generation Early?

[Mnementh]

Bandorr said:

Norion said:

You're not taking audience reception into account though and that matters more. Forza and Starfield are both sitting at mostly negative recent reviews on Steam right now with the former being mostly negative with all of them. I'd for sure consider Forza Motorsport a dud based on the audience reception and would even consider Starfield that at this point at least somewhat with how increasingly negative its reception has got in the past couple months. The biggest Xbox release since 2021 becoming a bit of a punching bag is rough for the brand. There was good stuff this year like Hi-Fi Rush but Starfield being received the way it has overshadows that with how big a title it is and how much hype it had.

The Forza thing surprises me. It won a couple awards at the game show - so I thought it was doing well.  Then I read on another site a thread about things xbox needs to fix and I saw at least 5 people talking about Forza.

So I just looked it up on steam and wow it's sitting at mostly negative. Both recent and All reviews.

So their three most recently released games (Redfall, Forza, Starfield) are all sitting on mostly negative.

So the game shadow-released is cult favorite, and the three games with any advertising are bombing with fans on steam. There is something to learn from that.

I think these reviews are skewed by retaliation for puchasing Activision. Redfall may be bad (I don't really know), but While Starfield doesn't blow me away it definitely isn't a bad game that deserves these bad scores. There are far more shittier games in the AAA area, especially considering Starfield is free of Microtransactions. And I don't know much about Forza, but all points to a competent racing games wihtout much to complain about. At least for Starfield the recent ratings are worse than the one at release - even though arguably some stuff now is fixed and the game is better. So yeah, I call bullshit on these reviews. These are angry fanboys that can't take the Activision acquisition.