So honest question:
What is better? Having good first party cross gen titles within the first year of the console oooor having very average launch games and then having to wait 1.5 to 2 years for the first decent exclusives.
I'm not sure how long it took for the 360 to get good first party exclusives that werent racing games. The truth is, that early launch games are mostly kinda meh (Ryse, KZ Shadowfall, Knack, Resistance FoM, Kameo, etc.) and do nothing new in the gameplay department anyway. Thats simply because they start development before the final specs of the new system are in, so devs cant really plan on doing completely untried new things during pre production when they have a super tide schedule on a new console that non of there devs have any experience with and they also dont know what the system is even capable.
So all they are, are graphical updates that despite being exclusive dont use the full hardware and offer nothing new gameplay wise. Ps1/N64 gen might have been the only outlier here because 3D.
So in that sense I understood MS in their strategy. Whats disappointing about their strategy is that we dont have any clue if their games are even coming out within the first year of the system, except for Halo which doesnt even look like any graphical update at all.
So I can see that it is disappointing that no games take full advantage of all the features of the new system, but I also think that this would not be possible anyway because of the reality of development. I guess in that sense having the games be cross gen is a good thing if it means the publisher puts more money into it because of the larger install base. At least you get something good to play on your new system. Even if its just higher res, more frames, and a bit more effects for good measure.
What I am trying to say is that I came around the idea that MS tried to present to the world. They had very good reason to follow that strategy. Though they still didnt deliver since most of their games are simply too far out. And while Sony spinned their message in a somewhat dishonest way, which is a shame, they still manage to pull that strategy of in a better way.
You can like that or you dont. I understand both points, though I think the way things are happening right now is the more reasonable and realistic way.
Of course I'd like to see a game that blows everything out of the water right at the beginning of a generation, but that hasnt happened since PS1/N64.