JackHandy on 15 January 2025
It seems that a lot of people got the exclusivity thing wrong, including myself. So kudos to those who said at the time that MS buying everything up was their way into third party... because that's clearly what it was. If they had bought all those IPs up, COD etc, and made them exclusive and doubled down on their console platform, Xbox might have had a chance to rebound. But they aren't in that business anymore. They're transitioning out of it, and doing so on the sly, which is sad. Yes, I would say they were my third-favorite, but I still enjoyed their unique platform. Watching them slowly die out, and, by proxy, the console industry shrink is not a good thing, imo.
