Of course Microsoft is smart, that’s why they have been listening to me ever since Donny Dickhead left. I’ve been calling the shots on what to do behind the scenes. And that is why they are now profitable and  Phil Spencer has gotten a promotion.

I did the same thing with PS4, I bought it because it was cheap and I wanted to play Horizon. Used it 2-3 times to play Horizon. Now, It just been collecting dust but it did come with Uncharted 4, I will eventually go back it. 

There so much content coming out on both platform ... that it's really hard to justify owning since most of the third party is available on both. But, In your case I would say just sell it before it fully depreciates. 

You can't say that Xbox doesn't have it's exclusive Halo Series (Halo 5, Halo Wars 2 & Halo MCC); Forza Series (Motorsports & Horizons); Gears series (Gears of war: Ultimate edition & Gears 4), Quantum Break, Ori and the blind forest & Cup head. When Xbox first came out the top exclusive included Sunset Overdrive, Titan Fall, Rare Replay & Dead Rising 3. 

You are obviously not into Xbox backward compatible and game pass program. Which will appeal to other gamers.

I'm fine with others loving it, only giving my thoughts. I did like Halo, but RTS are the only games I insist on playing on PC because of the controls. Never liked any racing games (for those that do, I totally understand going XBOX). I don't need to rebuy Gears games or old Rare games. Couldn't care less about backwards compatibility as I've already played all those.

I did buy Titanfall but was ultimately disappointed with it. SO looked too similar to infamous, which I had just played, so I passed. I'm sure it's not bad though.

Again, I'm glad some people are happy, but I don't think other's feelings on it (and it isn't just mine) should be dismissed as fanboy rhetoric. I'm genuinely disappointed. I hope Microsoft understands that a lot of people ARE disappointed and does better, so that I'll want to buy their product again.

They made bad investment that din't pan out some that we know publicly (Fable Legends, Scalebound & Knoxville) and some that probably never took off behind close door.  Microsoft made an investment in Kinect 2.0 that must of included a bunch of games and most of them must of have been cancel after Phil Spencer took over. Aaron Greenberg and Phil Spencer have both mention that there are unannounced new IP and projects. They also hinted that they have expended their Coalition and 343 studios and working on multiple projects. These games weren't in the stage to be shown to the public yet at E3 2017. 

This could simply be optimistic thinking from a Microsoft supporter but there is a X factor (so for the pun) and that's the Xbox One X. You don't invest in development and marketing costs of Xbox one X without having software support to follow.   The investment in New software would of came in mid 2015 to mid 2016. Development cycle for bigger games would be 3-5 years.... 2018-2020 window....

Microsoft needs to realize that they need more than just Halo and Forza to push console sales. PUBG isn't going to because it plays like sh*t in both the One and X, and it's also on PC so it isn't an exclusive. I see more reason to buy a Switch when Metroid Prime 4 launches, over the Xbox One and it's been out for 4 years....

This must be the oddiest argument ever...

So since X1 is weaker than PS4, we have to assume that generally PS4 players are using worse internet, TVs, etc just to make their experience worse than X1?

And since when did Europe become poor? Also when a lot of X1 games are rendered in 720p what is the benefit of the 1080p TV for them?

Not you remember totally wrong. SW for both ps3 and x360 is quite similar with X360 managing higher due to earlier release and sure more concentration in US+UK.

Are you again just messing with everyone?

I'll rephrase, they have been saying they are upping their 1st party every year for the last 4y while at the same time saying they have plenty exclusives and also try short term solutions with buying exclusive rights for some key games.

Totally agree, but people tend to forget that last generation Microsoft didn't have many exclusive games either.

They put all their eggs in a 3-franchise basket after the 360's second-or-so birthday and most of the success they had was thanks to the Kinect marketing and hype (Kinect Adventures is the best-selling 360 game... by far).

People who bought a 360 did so to play third parties: CoD, GTA, and all the mainstream titles, not exclusives.

It's not realistic then to expect either Microsoft investing tons of money on new IPs or exclusivity deals nor their core fanbase supporting new IPs or genres (just remember the sad flops that were ReCore, Quatum Brake and Sunset Overdrive).

DSL can go up to 300Mbps right now.
My DSL is 90/40Mbps.

Even when accounting for display differences, the Xbox One often offers less fidelity than the Playstation 4 in most multiplats.

Sony deserves their win for this generation, they offered superior hardware for a lower price and didn't push silly shenanigans like always-online DRM.

It's funny the justification folks come up with to sleep better at night. Article's on point.. maybe apologists should be mad instead of complacent so that MS can start delivering on their broken promises. Also, you just released "the most powerful console", but what's the point of the "most powerful console" when you got 6 and 7th gen graphics only to showcase that power? And worse yet, your best pitch is "best place to play multiplats"? Just blows my mind that some of you who purchased xboxs this gen aren't pitch forking MS.

Wait what?! Get a grip buddy. I can’t believe what I just read.