I am a very loyal 360 fan who bought a lot of software, MS stuff even Kinect and the neglect Lips game and peripheral. I used to believe heavily in Microsoft's software strategy when it came to exclusive games.

To recap history, MS stole a lot of games from Sony including once-exclusive AC and FF. Further, the 360 was also the go to system for some the best JRPGs of this generation including Eternal Sonata (timed exclusive) and Lost Oddysey. For the longest time, we also had the fantastic Bioshock as an exclusive and later Valve's games (Orange Box, L4D) and Alan Wake. Also, lets not forget the incredible Mass Effect which was a really amazing showcase for exclusive software. 

But what the heck happened later in the cycle? All the great games went to Sony including Ni No Kuni, Tales series, and other exclusive titles (Last of us, Souls). I feel like MS gave up on creativity and single player games. They could have bought BioWare before EA picked them up thus securing exclusivity for the best Western RPG saga of this generation. 

Instead, what we got was rehashes of Gears, Halo, Fable, and Forza. I'm not really interested in those titles, I'm interested in creative, and immersive single player games. This is the primary reason why I don't care to get an XB1 regardless of what MS announces. I simply don't trust their software strategy. They will just push multiplayer games, mostly shooters or co-op games as exclusives. I love a good single player game, I don't feel like this is their strategy. 

I think Sony will continue to pump out amazing first party software and they will take the lead to bring the most JRPGs to the system as exclusives.

This is primarily the reason I'm switching sides next gen. 

Agree, you completely wrote my perception about xbox one and the reason I decided to skip the console next gen.

As long as I get some good/new exclusives here and there I don't care.

I can't speak for the year 2015 and beyond, but there are a lot of good console exclusives. Hell, 3 of the games I'm buying at launch will either be timed or permanently exclusive (Ryse, DR3 and Forza 5 which will of course be permanent unless MS starts going PC gaming again.)

The reasons I stuck with the 360 were

1) Superior online enviorment, IMHO and of course this will always be debated. It will be interesting to see how the XB1 stacks online against the PS4, but I'm going to assume MS will still have the edge with more dedicated servers (unproven) and that last voice sample was amazingly clear. The console has a dedicated soundchip, correct?

2) Shooters - Halo, Gears and a controller that was better for FPS. Sony again is testing this with a nice controller this round, but is it really better for shooters?

3) Halo again. Really was the game changer for the original XBox, and to this day is still my most enjoyable FPS. I can't imagine missing a single Halo game again. I'd pay $560 just to play the next Halo, and a few of my friends feel the same way.

4) Because ALL of my friends had a 360.

Things will be different next gen for some people, but since all my friends are either buying both the XB1 and PS4 or just the XB1 I think my path is even more clear.

I am also a Xbox360 and soon to be Xbox one loyal!! Definitely fell apart for Xbox 360 around 2010 in terms of exclusive content and rehash central.

To be fair though, I have mainly been in love with Fifa, Halo, Gow and then multiplats so I never felt like i was missing many exclusives....I think Microsoft is looking pretty good also with the amount of exclusive content coming to the ONE, also I think we will see alot more games being made this Gen. Microsoft have a lot of catching up to do in terms of momentum lost over the last few months and exclusive games will go along way to assist that.

Idk how people can be loyal to a certain console and deprive themselves of playing amazing games on other consoles.  Every console has its fair share of good games, which is why I buy every console for each gen.  Obviously I have my favorite, but I'm not "loyal" to any console.

I hold a long bond with my best friend from when we were 13 and we promised ourselves we would never buy a Playstation LOL (no joke) so really if I want to play a console the choices are amazingly limited to Xbox or Will U and yeah not a difficult choice. 

Because some people aren't rolling in the dough and can only afford one console and *MAYBE* a hand held.

But that's not me. I'm buying everything... except probably a Vita.

Did a falling Playstation kill one of your relatives or something?

OT. Microsoft likes to blow their load quickly to look appealing, and when they hook people and make them buy their console, it goes downhill from then, well just compare 360 to PS3 exclusives from 2006 till 2009 and it was a stiff competition, then from 2009 until this holiday and you'll see the pattern.

People have short memory though, so I totally understand this strategy.

Yeah I just don't see a viable software strategy beyond the tried and true for MS this gen. It's going to be re-hashes of Halo, Forza, Fable, and whatever else they can focus on multiplayer. Any real creativity is in the toilet. 

Didn't realize I need to trust a company to enjoy gaming and awesome features of a system... :p