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trump-who-must-go I didn't know that. It led an amazing life, what else can you say? It was an amazing console, whether you agree or not. It was an amazing console that had an amazing life.

Looking at all the Youtube thumbnails in my feed in the past 24 hours, Xbox died somehow. RIP John Halo and Mark Fenix

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like Microsoft's games especially their exclusives being terrible has had a lot to do with it. Like if you look at Sony and Nintendo, their exclusive game libraries are full of hits. Nintendo has a sort of niche with their IPs and their handheld games to such an extent that Switch still continues to sell very well. Sony has had some very popular exclusives like Last of Us, God of War, Bloodborne, Spider-man, Final Fantasy 7 remakes, etc. A genre that should have been generic---OFFLINE AAA single player games---have somehow become something Sony delivers especially well on.

Meanwhile Microsoft's stuff have been awful. Their latest exclusives were Redfall and Starfield, both shit games. I don't even remember what they were doing before. Microsoft have fully stratified themselves as rent seeking parasites because of which they are not able to look past producing shit live service games and throwing money at their problems.

I feel if they made actually decent games, which they absolutely could with the money and resources at hand, their hardware would sell better even if the games were released on PC and Steam. But Microsoft are gonna live and die by terrible games.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A genre that should have been generic---OFFLINE AAA single player games

They are generic. A good chunk of Sony releases is just versions of Assassin's Creed. Most just don't care, they eat the slop anyway.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which ones are you talking about? I think Spider-man is somewhat assassin's creed like but I can't think of anything else.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Horizon is even closer to the formula with the "find towers (longnecks) to reveal more icons on the map, then do more boring fetch quests for other boring characters with your boring character" thing.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago