Well Sony deserves the praise, they will have around 10 exclusives releases by the end of february and sure people can be like Halo Wars 2>>>> Nioh +Horizon+tales of berseria+Gravity Rush2+Digimon+Kingdomhearts 2.08+Fate game+Yakuza 0 and so on...  MS can do better the high bosses simply don't want to take the financial risks.

I miss the time when MS did simple things like summer of arcade with games like shadow complex/Castle Crashers/super meat boy/Fez/Splosion man/Keflings/trials HD...   All we get is 1000 games @ID and after Ori I can't think of a game that made the indie crowd happy on Xone. Hmm maybe Inside.

Also the gold deals aren't exciting anymore, last time mirrors edge was on sale for like 30 euro on GOLD while on Ps plus I could get it for 10 euro..Guess which platform I choose 

People are giving up because we also had this discussion in 2014 and if you would go back reading comments as 'but MS is investing in games like Fable Legends/phantom Dust/Scalebound/Crackdown 3' and in 2017 we may be lucky if we get two of those games.

Ms simply needs to invest in a lot of games and show gamers they seriously care, it is not hard to understand that people feel like MS is giving up...

Xbox One obviously due to it being in the EA Access Vault. Easily completable within a month. 2€ well spent.

Well their was also Larian studios:

but they had to rush their game out and it almost was cancelled (game with dragon getting cancelled...Scalebound deja-vu).

Ms and the publisher gave up on Larian studious and they came back with Divinity Original sin that has like 88% on metacritic.

But worst thing for me is psychonauts, MS cancelled funding because it was childish and doesn't look good. Tim shafer lucky found someone else to fund the game and the game ended up with 88% on metacritic (the best rated 3D platformer on xbox consoles so far?). it hurts because we could have some exclusive Psychonauts games on xbox and last week PSychonauts Vr released exclusively on PS4.

I guess for Microsoft this is big news. I'll take what I can get with the split screen.

Sony doesn't deserve the praise for most exclusives they get. They just get them (the Japanese ones).

You can praise them for Horizon, Uncharted or whatever but that they simply get all the Japanese games because they are the Japanese company every Japanese dev supports isn't an achievement by them.  

MS would have to pay what Sony does get for nothing. It's a totally different situation for both. 

If it wouldn't be these Japanese devs who never really planned to support XBO (I mean, they didn't stop working on XBO games, they never started to do so) then Sony wouldn't have so many exclusives so yeah, you can blame MS not trying more but Sony doesn't try so much either, they are just in a lucky position.

I agree that MS should try harder, though. Especially with more own studios but well... opening a great studio in Japan would have been a great idea years ago. It would have been also a good sign for other Japanese devs and they would maybe get a few more games from them if they would be more active on Japanese ground. 

Even then, it's preferable to the "Impeach Mr Potus" threads that are loaded with verbal diarrhea... 

Entering the site to find it's down almost all the time does end up annoying someone... 

I'd argue that this is the last resort they have. Bethesda has a clear affair with Microsoft and unlike other devs, they actually SAVED the studio with Morrowind. I believe if MS wanted, they could ask for a third party game from them. 

Also, Activision has a very harsh deal with Bungie and I have started to think they might be having second thoughts on going back to MS. Mistwalker still likes MS, but they are busy since they are a story dev and need technical muscle. Spike Chunsoft apparently is in a tight position, as are D3 Publisher and Tamsoft, all of which could be used solely as devs for a story building Mistwalker-Bethesda-Bungie trinity. But the one thing that I find odd, however, is the amount of development muscle (gargantuan even when compared to the likes of Square Enix) 343i has and hasn't used focusing solely on Halo. If they removed the stigma of 343 is Halo, then they could easily put out three more games at the expense of slowing down Halo 6, which will not be arriving any time soon... 

Under most circumstances, I'd say otherwise, but I think they are down but not out... 

Halo 4 story + Halo 5 multiplayer = a very good game :)

I agree with Crissindahouse, Sony doesn't really deserved praise they just get JRPG automatically without actually trying. Also like someone said earlier in this thread games like COD, FIFA and GTA5 is what most people are playing hell GTA5 on the PS4 is always in the top of the list on VGchartz and even in Japan of all places that it is constantly on the list there. You will never see a niche JRPG game have crazy legs like that...ever.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided dlc 'A Criminal past' is out now. I finished it yesterday and it was very good. Much better than System Rift, the story was actually interesting this time.

Halo Wars 2 is fun to play and there seems to be plenty of content. Problem is I suck ass 😐 Even the normal AI is beating the shit out of me..last rts game I played was Warcraft II.

Not sure about MS being afraid to let Halo breathe. Millions of Xbox gamers want to play Halo so it simply makes sense to work on their most successful franchise. Also people who say The Coalition should work on a new IP instead of Gears make me cry. It's Gears ffs, games like it are the reason to own Xbox, there's plenty of new multiplat IPs to play.

About MS's 1st party..yeah it could be better but in the end I'm sure your average gamer doesn't give a shit whether a game is 1st, 2nd or 3rd party. I don't anyway.