only hints we had was that the list was getting smaller......it doesn't like Shinobi was hinting at anything new. This sucks....once I'm done replaying the Mass Effect trilogy its back to the PS4......its pretty sad that the only reason I power on my xbox one is due to backwards compatibility. You know you royally fucked up if thats the only reason people power on their machine is for 360 titles.
Exactly how I feel. This cancellation is just another in a long list of abandoned games and ips. This signals where Xbox is going, I'm not that interested in this path.
Now having said all of what I already said, there has never been a console that has given me as much to enjoy as Xbox One. The benefit for me is I typically don't really care about exclusives.... as long as the game is GOOD, and the game is actually ON XBOX, then hey, I get to play it, and that's what really matters to me. So I love the Xbox controller and the Xbox OS and the general Xbox exclusives, but most of my playtime this gen has been with indies (especially indie puzzle games). Here is a list of the puzzle games that I've played on this gen (from the great, to the okay, to the bad).
Excellent, near perfect puzzle/adventure games, rated 5/5:
In Between
So Many Me
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
Unravel
White Night
Limbo
The Walking Dead Season 1
The Wolf Among Us
Life Is Strange
Thomas Was Alone
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
Inside
The Turing Test
The Witness
King's Quest
The next tier of excellent puzzle/adventure games, rated 4.5/5:
A Boy and His Blob
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
The Bridge
Q.U.B.E. Director's Cut
Gone Home
The Walking Dead Season 2
Virginia
Hue
Batman by Telltale
Oxenfree
Great puzzle/adventure games, rated 4/5:
Flockers
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
Kalimba
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Lifeless Planet
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishment
Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
Pneuma: Breath of Life
Unmechanical: Extended Edition
The Fall
Beyond Eyes
Stick it to the Man
Cubot - The Complexity of Simplicity
The Swapper
6180 The Moon
The Walking Dead: Michonne
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse
Grim Legends: The Forsaken Bride
Teslagrad
TurnOn
Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren's Call
Eventide: Slavic Fable
Firewatch
Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood
The Little Acre
3.5/5:
Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition
Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series
Submerged
Tales from the Borderlands
3/5:
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Contrast
The Park
2.5/5
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Blues & Bullets
Fragments of Him
140
2/5:
Whispering Willows
Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition
Gemini: Heroes Reborn
Among The Sleep
1.5/5
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
The Bunker
1/5:
NERO
Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space
I mean I can't say I haven't loved my Xbox One. And the above list doesn't include the various 3rd-party AAA games I've enjoyed along with the really really good exclusives from this gen (stuff like Forza Horizon 3, Sunset Overdrive and so on).
But I want my platform to have good 1st-parties too. And I just don't like Scalebound (a huge first-party/second-party game) getting cancelled like this.