SenjutsuSage
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When will Xfans realize that MS is focusing on the wrong things, time and time again....The whole of this gen MS has been underwhelming with their exclusives, they are so jittered by hardware, that having 99% inferior multiplats for 4 years straight must have hurt....They brought in XBONEX and it was losing in the framerate department because they are always pushing something too far to show how powerful their box is......
MS bought several studios, but they are mostly indie/AA, how will they compete with Santa Monica, Guerilla, Sucker Punch, PD, San Diego etc...…..and rumor has it that Sony is buying another big Studio or even more....
So after a heavy drought of quality games, they are still focusing on hardware, being the most powerful, when they are only most powerful because Sony has not announced their specs...…Meanwhile, how do XBONES and XBONEX owners feel,? where XBONEX owners had to justify all that touted power with BC as an example (I can play Ninja Gaiden in 4K, is that why you really bought a $500 box?).....So the guy who bought an XBONEX for $500 and seeing it discounted 2 weeks later, how does he feel right now, what has MS given him in the last three years to show the XBONEX's power and to give him confidence going into the next gen? MS has just neglected him and moved on to the next box and are now hyping Series X prematurely, just as they did XBONEX....
So in essence, where are the games in the last three years to give XBOX fans the drive to purchase Series X? What will they launch with? Halo Infinite, will be on PC gamepass day 1, are you that confident based on 343's history with the franchise? Halo5 was hyped through the roof too.....What are we really looking forward to, another Forza? Forza 8, Horizon 5
and from the other studios, what can we expect? SOD3, We Happy Few 2, Crackdown 4, SOT 2, Gears 6......Is that what people should be hyped for? We know The Initiative is much too small to compete with Sony on an AAA project yet, their game most probably won't be ready till 2023 and I even fear some of these smaller/Other studios might not be ready yet either, if we consider how long it took them to release crackdown, SOT, SOD etc......That's why MS is trying to drown everything with Series X specs and fellatio pieces from the gaming media.....And releasing nothing substantial for the current userbase, who have been well nigh abandoned for more than a minute.....MS has already abandoned this gen and this is bad for current owners...or prospective XBOX owners..
At this point, MS is speaking like Series X is already released and has sold 10 million and Sony is languishing behind, when do these consoles release again? so what momentum is the press talking about......People were more interested in seeing a Sony logo than an entire MS box, it just shows that people are not fooled by hype and they know what they want.....At this point, Sony is doing what they do best, give us great games. Who is going to purchase PS5 you say?, mostly the 110 million + PS4 owners by the time of PS5's release.....What has Sony done for them all gen? What are they doing for PS4 owners now? Giving them great games, whilst Phil talks about specs yet again, when just recently he was talking specs for XBONEX, very little talk on games...….Just hype trains and spec talk every few years...
Sony's marketing is the best in this industry, their marketing this year is to give PS4 owners LOU2, FF7, Tsushima, Dreams, something for everybody, seal them....You don't buy a console just to look at the spec sheet, you buy a console to see the hardware worked and that's what SWWS is great at, the best studios in the business...….At the end of this gen, they're giving the best graphics we've ever seen, they've never stopped setting the bar higher......That's what is selling PS5 right now, not fake hype...So when you see the logo numbers you can't be surprised, because that's reality vs forum hype and Forbes articles.....
Remember, 110 million PS4's vs 41 million XBOX's......Sony knows what they are doing, they are the king of this industry for a reason and based on MS's approach leading into next gen, they still don't have a clue......
Yikes... it isn't that serious. Having a really powerful console has ALWAYS been a focus of Microsoft's since they entered the console business. Period. Why does it seem to bother you so much that they're getting back to what they've always done? Next, you're assuming an awful, awful lot about Microsoft's studios you know so very little about. They're all growing, some have already grown by leaps and bounds with many hires. What a studio started out as based on your assumptions when they were bought is irrelevant to any comparison with sony's studios because we clearly have no idea what will become of them yet under Microsoft's backing.
Also, which part of Playgrounds strikes you an indie/aa dev? They are one of the most talent stacked studios out there and they grew to the point where they have a whole separate RPG team. The most recent gears is one of the best xbox studios titles of all time. This last SP campaign put it up there with Uncharted in quality for me.
Obsidian has just finished making the best fallout style RPGs in years. Obsidian has an amazing track record, a AAA one in fact. Hellblade 2 will obviously be more ambitious than the first one ever was. Ninja Theory has shown what they can do with a budget, and have shown what they can do with very little budget and resources. I'd wait and see what they can do with Microsoft's full backing before jumping to conclusions. Any smaller titles such as what ninja theory and obsidian were working were already in development when microsoft acquired them. There are bigger projects still.
Long story short, it isn't just Sony's studios that know how to design games. Microsoft's issue was one of simply not investing in many at a certain stage in the xbox one's life. That time has clearly now passed. There's only so long you can ride the Crackdown 3 train my dude.