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Zippy6 on 29 December 2023
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smroadkill15 said:
curl-6 said:

I should probably add, in case my posts came off as overly aggressive or negative, that it's not my intention to troll Xbox here.

I simply want them to do better, because I feel strong competition benefits the consumers, and I miss the 360 days when Xbox provided an awesome and competitive experience. (360 is actually one of my favourite consoles of all time)

I'm actually considering getting a Series myself, it's just frustrating to watch them constantly drop the ball for so long.

That's all fine and dandy to want Xbox to do better. I do too of course. Saying Xbox had a bad year in game releases is disingenuous and isn't constructive in anyway. You didn't even play any of these games so I'm not sure how you can act like you know any of these things. Then defend Sony for having an "off year" because they earned it. Shits wild to me.  

I don't know why you keep taking about "you didn't even play these games" because that's completely irrelevant to judging the general reception and performance of the titles. Personal feelings are irrelevant. You don't need to have played the games to know that the only release that was nailed by Xbox this year was hifi rush, the other three releases all have differing amounts of negativity surrounding them and their launches. Redfall was critically panned and flopped, Forza has horrendous steam reviews and flopped and Starfield is the worst reviewed SP Bethesda RPG, has a lot of negativity surrounding it and seemingly failed to get Xbox hardware selling.

For the record I have played Forza, and purchased early access to Starfield. Not that personally playing these titles is relevant in the slightest. "I personally liked these games" doesn't mean they had a good year of releases. The metric of success isn't your own personal feelings.

After a horrendous 2022 this was Xbox's time to launch a good line-up and in general they screwed it up. Even if you want to give Starfield a pass 50% of their releases do not pass.