I think Renna said all that needed to be said about the reviews.

https://www.twitchmetrics.net/g/490377-sea-of-thieves

I can see that twitch has the last 7 days of the games activity. I tried going back but I dont seem to be able to. I would love to see the rank it had before it launched on steam. That would tell us the place it will settle down to after the hype is over. 

Ninja Theory was bought in 2018 and by 2019 they already teased hellbalde 2 and project mara. Why was this an exception? 

You are really going out of your way to discount SoT. Can’t discount GP usage when it’s 10 million and growing. And I can’t stress enough that it releases on Steam and spiked despite being 2 years old on Xbox/Win10/GP PC this entire time. Despite its negative early reactions it’s still very much active. Just let it go it’s clearly not a dead game. Man if I went out of my way to continuously crap on PS exclusives despite evidence to their success CGI would get a dozen report notifications within the hour ;)

They only teased them. They have yet to show gameplay of either. They showed an in engine model, not gameplay. NT is also a sizeable studio with over 120 people. Nintendo teased Metroid Prime 4 in 2017 and Bayonetta. Atlus SMTV. Seen nothing since. Hellblade 1 was not a large game anyway. 6 hours maybe 8 so it might be easier to get Hellblade out by maybe the end of this year or a 2021 game. Do you people really not know how game development works?

Pre HD era the average length was 18 months. Now it can average 2-4 years. Have you not noticed the slower output of most developers. 6th gen companies pumped out several sequels and IPs in 5 years. 7th gen they slowed to mostly being a couple of IPs and the rest outsourced. Some studios have the manpower and/or insane crunch to pump out more. These days it might be 1-3 games entire gen. If they have more it's much much smaller projects.

I think thats where he is getting at. While there are people like you out there and nobody should tell you what to like, and you can be as hyped as you want. Everyone has their preferences and thats fine. But you seem to think that there are a mass amount off people like you out there, while you are in fact in the minority. While again, thats also fair to be. You seem to be hyping up a past and possible future that most do not like and are looking at what MS has presented and could show in the july event with just mistrust, denial, pessimism or whatever else.

You percieve it as me discounting SoT(While I do really despise all multiplayer focused games). GP will probably keep growing, its a good bang for the buck. Of course it spiked. It just released on steam. the windows store is nothing in comparison to steam. What do you expect it to do? The thing is now where is gona settle. And as the numbers show, its droping. Patching is all well and good but remember "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." Shigeru Miyamoto. The game s you put it might be a good game now, but in everyone mind is still bad.

Well said. I choose to believe while I am a minority with my tastes I do not believe there’s not many other then me. By that I mean there are many out there that enjoy a variety of genres. Individually they are niche (the genres) but together it can add to something big if they do it right.

Also despite all that was said and how this gen went down, the XB1 will finish this gen with 50 million. That’s pretty respectable for such a disastrous start and lack of IPs. Compare it to other “failures” like WiiU, GameCube,  Xbox, hell even Nintendo 64 sold terrible compared to PS1 yet its praised to this day. They have imo the best services and play a near identical library as PS4, exclusives being the exception of course.

All they need is to advertise they have an edge on those multiplats which again are 90%+ of a consoles library. Which I think they are doing a good job and will hammer it further next month. And finally of course deliver on their own first party selection. Obliterate the notion that they only have the trinity. I’m tired of hearing that (it’s true) and hopefully next month will extend that list. It’s no small statement to say many like myself are getting tired of waiting and need that wow factor to keep us going. 

I think thats where he is getting at. While there are people like you out there and nobody should tell you what to like, and you can be as hyped as you want. Everyone has their preferences and thats fine. But you seem to think that there are a mass amount off people like you out there, while you are in fact in the minority. While again, thats also fair to be. You seem to be hyping up a past and possible future that most do not like and are looking at what MS has presented and could show in the july event with just mistrust, denial, pessimism or whatever else.

You want to act like you know me and my interests are superficial? Ok then. Growing up I played an ungodly amount of Xcom and Xcom Terror from the deep. Advance Wars series on Nintendo DS. Xcom reboots. So yes I am VERY much looking forward to Gears Tactics and Wasteland 3, the latter being a multiplat but a 1st party game all the same. My gamertag is GhostMLD, named after the Ghost unit in Starcraft. Which I’m also a big fan of. So when they made Halo Wars 1 and 2, sure someone like you can see those as niche titles but to me they combined 2 of the best things I liked. Hellblade legitimately is my favourite new Ip of this gen. I wanted to play it so bad when it was Ps exclusive. And not only did I play it and it being better then I expected (narratively and atmospherically it nearly had no equal to me), it’s sequel is 1st party. Same with Obsidian and Fallout NV (one of my favourite wrpgs) and Outer Worlds. Can’t wait to see a sequel that actually has MSs resources behind it, OW could have been truly something special. 

Alan Wake, Ninja Gaiden 2 are games I am ashamed to say I missed when they were new but got the chance to beat them via GP. Then there’s my back catalog where I was able to beat Lost Odyssey (turn base jrpg that you just don’t see much nowadays) after getting stuck back in 2008. They were even optimized in some way when I played them on my Xbox X. So yes I’m grateful they made it work so that I could easily access this rather then shrug my shoulders and never play them. I could go on and on so yes I assure you I’m glad I have this feature.

“Do you honestly not care about not getting any Series X exclusives for the next 2 years?” I know they are optimized, I care if they are quality experiences, and I know they aren’t on PlayStation. So that makes the choice easy. 

Your second paragraph imo is just light trolling so ima skip that. I can easily say Sony gives you guys great games but doesn’t put as much effort in their services. They tend to add features Xbox did first, usually years later. The one thing they did first was Ps Now but they wasted its potential and allowed Game Pass to be 5x more successful with half the instal base in only a couple years time. I just know I’m playing more games then ever and saving a ton of money doing so, and I know I wouldn’t get that same value if I went to PS. Again no offence to anybody, that’s just my perspective. 

I’ll be open minded too, but from where I sit I’m going to go crazy if all I have to choose from is “3rd person story driven single player action adventures”. I can’t stress enough I need multiplayer and more genres covered. Again not baiting that’s just my genuine perspective. I like multiplayer games, sci-fi FPS, wrpgs, RTS, turn based strategy, racing and the occasional immersive story driven adventure title. I’m sorry but you have to accept that there are people like me who like different genres and Xbox definitely covering more genres then Sony. And they speak to me on a personal level, so nothing disingenuous about my opinion.