Introduced more expensive hardware that historically has not done well. Removed the boundaries on their exclusives, and with it partially the incentive to stick to gaming within the Xbox family, and that's one really interesting way of putting that they lack AAA exclusives.

It takes time? They've had adequate time. Hes been running the whole divison for over three years. A veteran of the business. They've had to shut a few studios and cancel games, but the re-investment in their first party, or in third party deals, should have happened by now.

Dunno... but sonys internal first party says more about them. EA and crystal dynamics have even copied their first party. Ever played stars wars the force unleashed, dantes inferno and time or tomb raiders reboot? A couple names.

Tomb Raider was heading in the direction it's at now before Uncharted came around. Play TR Anniversary :)

As if Sony invented the narrative driven action game anyway LOL.

A brutally honest assessment. Well said Super, you're seeing the light. You'll be more then welcome to playstation next year.

It's so hard to tell where they went wrong. But, I think they let the whole power issue drive them nuts this gen, to the point where they overshot the specs for their upgrade and, well, overestimated the market in comparison. Phil Spencer is a man who paid attention to social media and message board chatter about his division, and it kind of became an undoing. Having to match their competitors step by step, or trying to outdo them with PR moves led them to this point. Trying to convince people that weren't buying their consoles, and customers that were lukewarm on their exclusives, to buy a new console from them at double the price to improve their experience.

All that's fine to try and keep your customers happy and bring attention to your product, but now they've painted themselves in a corner. They've basically made a Steambox that ONLY plays Xbox games. It's a higher spec walled garden with a casual-unfriendly price. Maybe they've priced themselves out of the game, but, I've been wrong about these things before.

They ended up envying Sony's multiplat position, so they backed off the prospect of first party exclusives and doubled down on new hardware. Anyway, maybe it's not as bad as it seems, but I'm failing to see the silver lining right now.

The true light is the non-fanboy route, not the PlayStation route!

Well à lot of people were in denial since thé beginning of thé génération but its obviously, WE can say it now, by far, the worst Microsoft console, and this conférence their worst since first kinect and Usher .

What à disaster.


Hopefully Nintendo and Sony will save E3, and maybe Bethesda too

Not true. Not true at all.  Crystal Dynamics admitted that that Sony took inspiriation from their Tomb Raider (and killswitch and RE4) so they could take inspiration from their game as well. It creates competition. I mean, EA's Dantes inferno was a reskinned God of War. Literally.....even Mega 64 made fun of it because it was such a blatant rip off.  Star Wars the force unleashed and Star wars 1313? Rip offs of Uncharted and God of War. Thats how big and influential those games were last gen. Phil Spencer admitted that they paid for timed exclusivity of Tomb Raider because they tried to make a game that resembled Uncharted and did not like the results of the venture. They paid for Tomb Raider to have a rival combatant game on equal footing. You can look this up. Its still on the net. You think Phil SPencer was payhing for nay other kind of Tomb Raider that didnt look like Uncharted, you would have to be kidding me. The rumor for EA as well is that they are using her on storyline for a Star Wars project (most likely the resurfacing of Star Wars 1313) because she was responsible for Uncharteds amazing story.

Much wanted? 😂 give me a break. 

OP definitely needs to change most of your "we" to I. You don't speak for all Xbox gamers. 

Phil spencer is great he has done some great things from a consumer perspective and shifted the console back to games the hardware (One S // X) also looks a lot better.

The big Xbox problem right now is first party if he would adress that they would actually be doing an amazing job but it doesn't look like that problem is going away anytime soon.