Should Xbox End their Generation Early?

[Chazore]

Norion said:

smroadkill15 said:

It is in fact well received overall by critics and audiences.
Steam scores have 85K positive reviews and 50k disliked reviews: Overall well received.
Xbox store user review 3.5/5: Overall well received.
Metacritic: Xbox critic score 83, PC critic score 86, user score 70: Overall well received.
Best Buy user score 4.6/5: Overall well received.
Amazon user score 4.2/5: Overall well received. 
Target user score 4.5/5: Overall well received. 
Walmart user score 4.5/5: Overall well received.
Opencritic 85/100: Overall well received.

There is no way any influencer and gaming journalist would use Starfield, a divisive game before it even released, as a way to garner views and clicks. There is no way the internet would overreact to any of it. There is no way anyone would use Starfield to console war or troll. There is no way several people in a thread who hadn't played the game would act like they know better than someone who did. Or maybe the hate for Starfield is overblown a bit. 

Did you seriously just try to use the Steam reviews that have been getting increasingly negative over time and have been mostly negative for the past several weeks as evidence for Starfield being well received overall? There has been a clear trend in its reception since launch and it has not been positive. The biggest Xbox release of the year getting this much negative and middling reception undeniably brings their year down at least somewhat and combined with stuff like Forza Motorsport and Redfall their year has been quite mixed for them software wise. I hope 2024 is better since Xbox needs a strong year.

Also ignoring the Steam threads, the countless mods being used on PC to FIX THE GAME, or the constant talks on YT of the issues with the game's mechanics, really poorly written story, to a point where Pete Hines spends a chunk of time bitching at anyone who has anything to say that isn't outright praise to the game as "wrong", and so on.

Also to note that SF was one of the biggest releases this year, and yet it won nothing at TGA this year, whilst other games, even those smaller ended up winning awards and earning high praise. The ones I've seen who give praise and don't challenge Beth, have given off impressions that they:

Don't care about actual good writing (Many people have proven beth's bad writing for years now).

Don't care about the plethora of loading screens.

Don't care that this is once again another Beth game releasing with an assload of bugs.

Don't care about dated mechanics.

Don't care about having or leaving a footprint within the game's world.

I know Sony isn't doing any better, turning to live service crap, turning Insomniac into a Marvel machine, and so on, but Xbox really need to get it's collective shit together, and those who even like the brand, need to actually challenge MS, not bat for them, actually challenge them (which involves the lack of praise and the desire to want refinement).