Should Xbox End their Generation Early?

[smroadkill15]

Zippy6 said:

smroadkill15 said:

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.

I just showed how Starfield is liked overall by critic and audiences from numerous sources. It's one if the best selling games or steam and Xbox this year. It's one of the best selling games overall this year while still being on Game Pass. 14 Million people have played the game. Yet, people arguing with me like it's the worst game ever and a commercial flop.

MS having a hard time selling hardware is a bigger issue than Starfield reception or any other Xbox game this year. Xbox didn't release a Starfield console bundle, Forza bundle, or hifi Rush bundle. Xbox didn't have any aggressive price drops all year until late November and December, and in fact raised the price on hardware earlier in the year. While Playstation 5 saw numerous price drops throughout the year. It seems pretty obvious to me why Xbox didn't sell well this year. Xbox sold more consoles last year while having a much worse 1st party offering and less great 3rd party games. Based on this information, even if Starfield, Forza, and Redfall all saw glowing reviews, it likely wouldn't have effected console sales in any dramatic and still sold worse than last year. 

Last edited by smroadkill15 - on 29 December 2023