Yeah. Microsoft is literally the devil.
How evil of them to commit to their platform and offer their customers the very best exclusives they can. How fucking dare they spend money to benefit their customers.
Fuck you Microsoft you evil horse. I thought you we're selling off the brand, but instead your committing to it! I hate companies for supporting their products!
You see I'm not up in arms about this. Microsoft are now well aware that they cannot Coast on third party games and a threadbare first party offering any longer.
I'm interested in seeing the timed nature of this debunked as it will continue to demonstrate that Microsoft simply aren't interested in making many games.
Where Sony spent a generation languishing, they put a huge effort in making and securing/funding a large amount of content for its platform. Microsoft *almost* can see that this is what they need to do but can't actually push themselves to make any games, hence spanking cash at a big series.
Unfortunately for them, the lack of customer awareness (something that seems to be the legacy of the X1) has just irritated everyone. Especially as they have to trot out a very thin and carefully worded retort to every question about exclusivity. They can't admit that it is timed as it continues to dig the grave, they can't say it is locked forever as it is not.
Microsoft aren't evil, they're just being, well, stupid and lazy.
