IncognitoPanda
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Sony or Nintendo's lineup have nothing to do with his point at all. Who's to say they aren't in the same league, a open world survival AAA RPG sequel whose small budget origins was critically praised to the moon and back. Crackdown a game that is doing something completely new with cloud tech that fundamentally changes physics in games. Sea of thieves has as much chance as Destiny 2 as being game of the year, even tho multiplayer games rarely ever get GOTY overwatch being the rare outlier.
It's not their problem if your XB1 isn't your main platform, for example when scorpio comes out that will be my main platform with PC, PS4 and switch being treated as secondary platforms for just exclusives. I will get the most use out of it, everyones situation is different. You state you want something more than Forza/Gears/Halo yet this is the year were that stigma is stupid to bring up when the three new games are SOD/SOT/CD3 three new pillars.
Yep, I don't understand there post at all your point could not be more true than this year. Three new innovative games rather than the usual trinity. It's mostly people don't want or care enough to pay attention, yet they moan halo, gears and Forza. That's more on MS fault for not making them stand out more, the amount of people that either forget SOD or SOT exist is remarkable for a enthusiast forum.
If SoT doesn't come out this year, as many gafers seem to believe, than it is only Crackdown 3 and SoD2 that are not part of the Halo/Gears/Forza. All games with a letter at the end. 60% of the big games being from their standard three pillars. That's far from what Sony is doing. Sony has had several new IP released this year already and getting high praise at that.
I don't mean to be a bummer, I'm an Xbox guy mainly. However, right now I have very little reason to turn the Xbox on. I'm cautiously optimistic because of all the platform improvements and Scorpio, but MS has to prove themselves AGAIN that they are able to have a diverse, creative and high quality first party output. Sony has it. Nintendo, even by playing on existing IPs are able to diversify, surprise and impress with their games. I don't know how many Zelda games there are, I'm guessing at least around 20, but BotW still knocked it out of the park.
I'm hopeful, but MS will have to step it up for me to truly get back in. It's ok to be happy with Xbox's output, but it is definitely a trend that people are skeptical or tired of their first party output.