I know you can make it shorter. I know you can. I don’t need to know your childhood life moments that made you the gamer you are today. Just tell me your point of view. 

Edit: I read it...just you talking about how Xbox game droughts made you jaded and having no optimism now. How PS bangers draw you to the brand while the Xbox trinity doesn’t appeal to you. See? See how short I condensed it? Please do that next time. 

Told you why I prefer Xbox. The misteps aren’t lost on me. To be what redeemed Xbox was Xbox X power (listening to fans about Xbox 1 lacking power). Game Pass being the most insane value deal in gaming. And their consumer focused BC program that goes back to OG Xbox. I occasionally like to go back to experience gems I missed out. Like I played Alan Wake and Ninja Gaiden 2 this year, and I’m glad I was able to. Xbox also does multiplayer games very well since most PS exclusives don’t even have MP. Just telling you people can prefer Xbox to your viewpoint and have their reasons. 

Otherwise I guess I’m gonna be that guy to tell you to keep waiting. At least we can say their IPs have variety now and game droughts are a thing of the past given what we’ve seen will be spaced out some way. A lot of their games may be too small or not enough budget for your liking, but the games and variety are coming as early as this year. Id be happy to show a years end comparison between Ps and Xbox Studios. A gen over gen improvement to be sure regardless. 

In the end we have progress. If the narrative is “Xbox has games but it’s all CG” then perfect. It’s a temporary narrative because gameplay is inevitable. And not like there won’t be any more announcements between now and years end. Your stance is simply too harsh despite your reasoning, which yes can attribute to generalizing you as yet another hater.

But I said so much more than that. You are an expert at oversimplifying things, especially when it serves your purpose. 

That’s my point, write less. You had a lot of fluff. It’s not intuitive to respond from a phone, to respond to every little point you make. And ironic considering you didn’t respond to my thoughts given how much less I wrote back. 

https://twitter.com/klobrille/status/1287434940364267520?s=21

Look at that, I’m curious what you think. The top 3 rows (15 games) are all from Xbox Studios. That’s not even all the games they have cooking and only what’s official. Tell me when Xbox ever had 15 games in development...I’ll wait. You don’t have to be a business insider to see next gen won’t repeat the same mistakes of Xbox One, nor the late gen game droughts of 360. 

Then you have the timed exclusives, and let’s be honest if PS fans can brag about FF7 timed then we can do the same. 

Then you have the fact that all 24 games on that picture....again TWENTY FOUR, are all DAY 1 GamePass. I can’t stress enough how insane that value is. For GP Ultimate you merely need to play 3 full priced games a year to break even. Please let that sink in how pro consumer this is. How this is a major selling point compared to PS. How even if you prefer PS to Xbox you will be paying more and playing less then me using GP. Please stop and consider that. 

Cant stress enough how Xbox has never been in this position regarding games and value to gamers. Never. 

Halo Infinite in all honesty looks fine for me (the 4k demo). It is obvious that game was made for xbox one, but they tweaked it for xbox one series x. I'm just glad it is 4k/60 fps and going back to the original trilogy style. Don't get me wrong, I liked Halo 4/5 overall, but I didn't like the visual style as much because it focus too much on tech and not enough nature imo. Halo Infinite, Everwild and crossfire interest me the most.

Its weird that you still don't see the downsides of GP after that Halo reveal. I hope you now at least realize that scalable graphics don't really work as Phil Spencer made it out to be.

Like I been saying for months. GP is great and offers amazing value, but there are some major drawbacks when it comes at the expense of supporting and selling their next gen console. For the second time we've now seen that it'll be hard to really take full advantage of the Series X hardware. But more importantly, GP probably wouldn't work with high budget AAA games that typically take 3 to 5 years to make. The GP business model strives on A/AA titles and a quantity over quality approach. Games that bombed, both in critical acclaim and at at retail, are now valuable GP filler for MS and they need a lot of them to keep people subscribed. 

The truth is that from half the games you mentioned, we have no idea what they are and when they will be coming out. It could be 4 years from now before we see Fable or Avowed, and even then we have no idea if they will be Skyrim/ Witcher beaters, or if they will end up on Ms's vast list of 60 Metacritic exclusives. 

Look, of course you want to see AAA exclusives on your platform of choice, we all do. But just like with Kinect, MS's corporate strategy will again directly influence what kind of games we'll see rolling out of those 14 studios. They turned Halo into a GAAS title FFS, Everwild is supposed to fairy tale version of Sea of Thieves, and I'm willing to bet Fable and Avowed eventually show up as MMO's. Those are the kind of games MS needs to keep GP users engaged and subscribed to their service, not the AAA blockbusters Sony has, that come out once every 3 years. 

It really doesn't matter to the end-consumer if a game is using all 12 Teraflops/8 CPU cores/16GB of Ram to display the image, what does matter is if it looks good.

So yes, having Ori "not even pushing the Xbox One X" or "Series X" is perfectly the fine, the game looks gorgeous due to it's strong art direction, it's a game that will age extremely well, if there was an exclusive highlight for the Xbox this entire generation, Ori is likely it.
Ori was also 60fps (With drops to 35fps~) and "almost 4k". - You won't tell much on the resolution between an Xbox One X and Xbox Series X, but the difference is there.



I am not going to argue against that 120hz TV's are an exception rather than the rule, because that would be silly.

The difference between 60hz and 120hz for anyone who frequently uses those refresh rates can tell the difference, heck you notice the difference even when moving a mouse cursor around a desktop screen. (I have a 144hz panel)

If anything a game that does allot of panning (I.E. Open world vista shots, 2d platformers etc') the difference is even more pronounced as there is significantly less judder... It's like comparing a 30fps and 60fps game, you can just tell the difference.
Same with 60fps and 120fps. You can just tell the difference.

120hz also tends to have a reduction in input times, so a game that relies heavily on timing of movement like Ori... Benefit greatly from higher refresh rates.

But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter much for those who only have a 60hz panel, but the future proofing is there if the technology ever becomes common place, it's a benefit the PC has always enjoyed... New hardware? Fine. Dial everything up and replay that old game in a new light.

Consoles are here to stay for an entire generation, so what isn't common now in the marketplace isn't necessarily going to be the market trend in 7 years time.

The thing with Halo is that it's supposed to be a console selling title, it's supposed to showcase the Xbox platforms capabilities to it's fullest extent, it's supposed to make me want to buy gamepass, it's supposed to make me want to buy an Xbox. Does it do that? No.

Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 really showed us what the Original Xbox could do with it's parallax mapping and advanced pixel shader effects.

Halo 3 took it a step further with it's HDR lighting pipeline and Tessellated water effects.

Halo 4 had an impressive presentation, mostly thanks to cutbacks to dynamic lighting and shadowing and baking them instead, plus investments into effects like subsurface scattering and screen space ambient occlusion.

Halo 5 was arguably a dropped ball on the visual front, but the Xbox One was an underpowered console to start with, but they did prioritize 60fps.

Halo: Infinite also looks like it's dropping the same ball as Halo 5 on the visual front, potentially still being held back by the Xbox One as some of the rendering techniques employed are decisively held back by last generation approaches.

And that sucks.

Halo Infinite had the opportunity to take the graphics discussion to be entirely about Microsoft and Xbox, but it lost the opportunity to run with that narrative... Right now Sony's technically "weaker" console has the more impressive looking games.

In saying that, Infinite still has a "Ray Tracing" patch coming, so that may resolve some of the extremely flat lighting, but it's what they should have used to start with... But the first impression isn't a positive one on the visual front... And that is a damn crying shame.

I am expecting big things from Fable which was the big highlight for me, hopefully they go for a 30fps presentation and bring those graphics effects home, make Xbox the talking point, sell me on buying that console.

IF people actually cared about GamePass for Xbox, the Xbox One would be selling FAR better than it is. I'm not saying it's not a good deal - it totally is - but being on GamePass isn't really a selling point if we're being honest. Especially not when you can get it on PC. 

And fine, we'll go through that list of games and talk about how much hype each one has: 

Halo Infinite - the gameplay demo seems to have done more harm than good. 

Everwild - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good.

Avowed - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good.

Fable - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good.

Senua's Saga - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good, though the last game was quite good.

State of Decay 3 - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good.

Forza Motorsport - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good, though the rest of the franchise is good

Psychonauts 2 - This actually looks good and we have a good idea what it'll be like! I am excited to play this on PC! 

Grounded - This also looks really good, I won't lie. This is 2 points so far to the entire list. 

Battletoads - Honestly looks bad and hasn't been heard from in a little over a year now. Not good PR for such a simple game. 

Age of Empires IV - Cool! I guess? I Can't really comment on this one other than...hey, it's another Age of Empires. 

Wasteland 3 - N/A (I don't know enough about it to comment, but the fact that it's got almost no hype does not help)

Tell me Why - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good.

Dusk Falls - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good.

Microsoft Flight Simulator - Yep it's a flight sim! I'm sure it'll be great but the audience is quite small. 

Medium - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good. (Honestly, I have high hopes for this one, looks interesting)

The Gunk - Still too early to tell if it looks good or not. All we got was a cinematic trailer and a very rudimentary bit of gameplay. 

STALKER 2 - Again, looks fine but super generic. No gameplay, no way to tell if it'll be good or not. 

Tetris - Dude, it's on PS4 already. Xbox is just getting the enhanced version sooner. this does NOT count as an exclusive. 

Scorn - Looks alright, might be the most interesting and most fleshed out game on this list so far since we know how it plays.

Call of the Sea - HOnestly, I'm shocked more people aren't talking about this one. It's one of the only games on the list to have any demonstrative gameplay. 

Warhammer DarkTide - All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good, though WH40K games are usually decent.

Dragon Quest XI - not an exclusive, doesn't count (It's even on the switch, dude)

Destiny 2 - This gets as much love as the GTAV announcement at the Sony Conference.

So yeah, big list of games and all, but almost none of them have any hype, only a handful of them have any gameplay, and most of them are in this nebulous phase of 'All we know is how it looks and who made it. Too early to tell if it's actually good'. You can spout all your nonsense about how strong Xbox's game lineup is all you want up and down the backside 'til the cows come home, but they've been saying the same thing year after year after year after year since 2013 and they've never delivered. Again, I'd love to be wrong, but I pretty much guarantee 2/3 of these will be nonstarters or get lost in the sea of games out there. There's very little special in any of these, which makes me sad because I'm sure lots of people worked so very hard to make them. 

Nobody needs to brag about Final Fantasy's Timed Exclusive status, because in the end it doesn't matter. Sony has always had a strong first and third party exclusive lineup, why do you think they don't give a shit about giving up stuff like Death Stranding and Horizon Zero Dawn to the PC crowd? They have nothing to lose and everything to gain by expanding their audience. Sony do it after releasing on PS4 to give their console value, Microsoft release all their stuff on PC becuase it's the only way to get people to buy them. 

And I don't give a shit about gamepass. I don't care that you'll be playing games and paying less, because I actually care about physical media. I care about collectors editions. I care about having a collection and building a bunch of shit. I still buy movies and TV shows despite having Netflix and Disney+ because those streaming services are great for convenience but mean nothing to me when it comes to pride. I get that many people don't care about that stuff anymore, but I do and that's why Gamepass means nothing to me. All it is to me is an anchor to either a console I don't want to play or a PC that I can't afford to upgrade. And like I said, Gamepass is a great bargain deal, but it clearly doesn't mean as much as you think to enough people to make the Xbox a success. 

Microsoft really should just go either streaming or third party. Imagine how fucking great it would be if you could get GamePass on PS4! Imagine a world where instead of having to buy a console with no real value, you just play on the console you already have! If Microsoft studios went third party and backed out of the console war, everybody wins. Sony and Playstation players win becuase there would be more games on their systems, Nintendo and their fanbase wins because there would be more games on their systems, PC gamers win because they continue to get a little bit of everything, and Microsoft would win because they'd get all the benefits of selling their games without any of the costs of having to manufacture and market their own console. It's a winning situation for everyone. 

I still would only play a handful of their games, but it'd be a win for everyone. as it stands, even you don't seem to think there's any value in the actual Xbox, it's all about Gamepass to you. 

You can not be that naive, it's embarrassing how you're willing to bend over for MS. Are you a new gamer or something? Has Xbox-exclusive output been so dry that you forgot how games should look like when they're revealed? 

Games like Horizon, God of War, FF7R, Ghost, TLOU2 and Uncharted 4 were revealed YEARS before they were actually released and they managed to impress despite being early builds. Not to mention, E3 was to take place about a month ago, so your (or Phil's) excuse is laughable, especially that the event timing was chosen by MS, no one imposed it on them, so they had all the time in the world to capture the best footage they could and make a good second impression, especially after their May event disappointed everyone. It's funny how Spider-man: MM, which is labelled as an expansion by you, managed to look 1000x times better than Xbox's biggest flagship:

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dont make me bring up the killzone trailer