dozenfuryI've been saying it this whole console gen for Microsoft, but whoever is leading the Xbox ship there is beyond clueless. They've taken a huge product in Xbox and through their own poor decision making have made it largely irrelevant. It's been an almost inconceivable lack of exclusives, combined with cross-play which made owning an XB1 unnecessary. No need to own one to play => no customers => devs going to other platforms => no exclusives, which has been the slow death spiral for XB1.

It's really been an amazing example of how smart, well-educated, top-tier managers can be so incredibly out of touch with their customer base that they make what they think are good decisions that actually destroy their own product far better than competitors can. Literally the only use for my XB1 right now is as a Netflix box, just to save some hours hours running Netflix on other hardware. My how the mighty have fallen...

dozenfuryI've been saying it this whole console gen for Microsoft, but whoever is leading the Xbox ship there is beyond clueless. They've taken a huge product in Xbox and through their own poor decision making have made it largely irrelevant. It's been an almost inconceivable lack of exclusives, combined with cross-play which made owning an XB1 unnecessary. No need to own one to play => no customers => devs going to other platforms => no exclusives, which has been the slow death spiral for XB1.

It's really been an amazing example of how smart, well-educated, top-tier managers can be so incredibly out of touch with their customer base that they make what they think are good decisions that actually destroy their own product far better than competitors can. Literally the only use for my XB1 right now is as a Netflix box, just to save some hours hours running Netflix on other hardware. My how the mighty have fallen...

Kohl BaasAFAIK the lacking of exclussives is not because the console itself is bad, but because the strategy. What do Microsoft do if they want a promising game to be exclussive? They buying the studio and soon starting to influence it.
What do SONY do? They gave money to the studio and leave them to be wit their game now PS exclussive. They're not buying up every developer team and melt them in to get exclussives. Less money, less problems, more exclussive titles.

natr0nForza feels like driving a giant refrigerator down set paths.

UpgrayeddThat is Forza for you. It doesn't play like NFS. But set paths? Really? Horizon is an open world racing game you can take whatever shortcut you want.. how is that a set path??

natr0nI was meaning how the the handling is really stiff by set path.

UpgrayeddKinda boaty like GTA 4 right?

BumbleBeethere is a new version of The Elite Controller codename Project Washburn that is launching in Oct for $149. I think it has a USB-C port, Bluetooth, trigger paddles like SCUF controllers.

hatMeh, I fail to see how exclusives are a good thing for gaming. It may generate sales (mostly for Sony) but sales figures alone don't paint a complete picture of the health of the gaming industry.

natr0nYeah.