Xbox hasn't had an exclusive game nominated to the Game Awards for 10 years now.
I’m just arguing nominations to the game awards. Xbox definitely has had games nominated to the game awards.
GOTY is a different story, but if we expand the category to Xbox Game Studio titles (cause they are Xbox games, just weren’t exclusives), the Outer Worlds was nominated in 2019, and Psychonauts 2 in 2021.
But no, there have not been any Xbox exclusives nominated to the “GOTY” category in that time frame.
Well, let us hope next year maybe 1 or 2 will be on the GOTY nominees, and since they can buy a company worth $69b hope they fund the studios they have to develop GOTY-worthy games.
I wouldn’t want Microsoft to force any devs to rush out games, that’s how we get poor products. That money should be put towards giving the devs the flexibility they need to make the games they want.
Hopefully we’ll see more nominees down the line, but I wouldn’t expect the turnaround to be immediate.
We could look at the current slate of games planned to release next year and make some predictions. Avowed and Starfield are two games that should be coming out next year that could make a run at GOTY.
That is so true, we don't want to have a half-baked product. Avowed is on my list. Well in Starfield a lot of gamers are excited and expecting that it will deliver, cause all eyes will be on this game.
I don’t own a PS4 but I own a PS5 and play tons of PS4 content on it. I personally don’t care if a game is for PS4 or 5 as it doesn’t make much of a difference for me.
Even if Xbox got a game of the Year title every year this graphic would still be all Xs. One of the biggest selling points of Xbox is that they don’t do exclusives
It entirely depends on what point you're making. If you're making the point that you want exclusive games on your platform because you want to be feel special about your purchase then sure, you're right.
If you're making the point that you want to be able to play good games on your platform, then the fact that it's a first party microsoft game is more important than whether or not it's exclusive since all first party microsoft games are going to launch on xbox.
Xbox owns the ip now. Tell that to psychonauts 3 when it comes out. Literally the only reason that joint touched a PlayStation in the first place is because it was already being developed before micro$oft bought them
I mean yea you can compare….as long as the games get there who gives a fuck. The exclusivity is over at that point regardless lmao. They also seem to not be giving to much a fuck about the two years later thing as well with the ports. Soon it will be a couple months, next thing you know day one release with ps.
Honestly I wouldn’t mind at this point. Not trying to sound douchey, but you Xboxes deserve to experience God of War, and Spider-Man cuz they’re sooo damn good
I bought a Series X for Starfield, Hellblade 2, and other Obsidian + Bethsoft games. Exclusivity is the entire reason I returned to duo PS/Xbox this gen and I've been let down a lot so far. GamePass is cool (I've always had GameFly so it's far less useful for me personally) but it's not the reason I got an Xbox. Exclusivity definitely matters
But if those games released on other platforms as well, would they be of lesser quality? I understand that we have to own multiple console if we want to play all of the games that release exclusively to consoles. But it doesn't mean that a game like Deathloop becomes worse, simply because it's now available on Xbox too.
Not at all, but if all those games were releasing on PS5 as well I most certainly wouldn't have bought an Xbox Series X in the first place. I'm not sure what point that is making in support of Microsoft? Unless I'm misreading you here
This isn't meant to be an argument in support of Xbox. This is an argument in support of games. I'm just talking about games, period. Exclusivity does not make a game more/less quality.
I mean I understand why it matters. People want to justify the purchase of one console or another. I have the money for both so it doesn't matter to me but I can still see the argument that PS5 owners are getting their money's worth because they have legitimate, highly rated exclusives releasing every year. Whereas xbox has been struggling in that department.
Whether a console simply HAS the content is what's important. Gatekeeping it from other platforms is not an important factor in justifying a console purchase.
It's not about gatekeeping it's about whether it's worth getting an Xbox or not, and well apart from Gamepass (which you can get on PC) it's apparently not.
For the majority of console owners, this is not true. Maybe on a Nintendo console. But industry supported consoles lean heavily towards 3rd party multiplats as the biggest sellers of the generation. Not saying that specific exclusives don't influence part of the purchasing decision. But for most consumers, a game is a game. It's exclusivity isn't relevant.
A game that isn't exclusive can be played anywhere.. Which doesn't add or take away any value from a platform. I'm not sure where you're even going with that.
If Xbox doesn't make any good exclusives but Playstation does, it has more value to somebody who can only afford one.
But why does it ultimately matter if a good game releases on other platforms? Does the PC release of Spider-Man, Death Stranding, God of War, and Horizon lower their value? Are they no longer games that people might consider good/great?
If Xbox doesn't make any good exclusives but Playstation does, it has more value to somebody who can only afford one
True. But it doesn't change the quality or value of said game.
Being on other platforms doesn't decrease the value of the game and being exclusive doesn't increase the value, nobody is suggesting that. But a game being on only one platform increases the value of that platform.
Final Fantasy 7 remake isn't worth more because it's on the Playstation, the Playstation is worth more because it's the only console that has it.
Somebody who can only justify owning one console will obviously go for the platform that has more/better exclusives. That's why they compare the platforms exclusives against each other.
Games can be good without it being a exclusive but usually exclusives go the extra mile to get everything out of a console to show you why you should buy them over the others like Playstation
And that only matters to a small portion of the over all consumer market. This is why Switch is a bigger success than anything else currently and why mobile gaming is so popular. Most consumers don't care. If something good and popular releases multiplatform, it's about that game, not the platform.
Because, up to this point, I do not believe Microsoft has gotten even close to the most from their IPs and the money it's taken to acquire them.
This is a hell of a lot of acquisitions with very little to show, IMO. Activision/Blizzard + Zenimax is over 75 BILLION USD.
Time will tell if they are able to buck the trend or if all this money is a sunk cost (I do not believe so, but Xbox/Microsoft needs to make waves NOW).
They’ve had over a decade to make something compelling and haven’t. You want to wait another decade before they start making hits comparable to Sony and Nintendo?
Have you noticed everyone is effortlessly understanding what you cannot even fathom to grasp? Either stop acting an idiot or learn to apply the tiniest bit of critical thinking before you reply, cheers hun xx
I buy a console simply for games. Exclusivity should be a non-factor for everyone. If you can play a game, then that's all you should worry about. Console warring is fucking stupid.
Are you sayin that you would buy a Xbox console if they didn’t have any first party games and only third party titles? It’s not about console warring it’s about getting good value for your purchase and ensuring that proper investment is being made in said platform
Yes, I would, and I have. Because I was more interested in the over all experience. And a few compelling titles weren't enough to convince me at that time to pick one over the other. But I have traditionally owned all consoles, as I do today.
And if you can only buy one console, then look at what that platform offers you. But platform value extends well beyond just some games that are locked to that platform. And caring about whether a game's value is locked behind exclusivity is lame.
The consoles have similar services and features. Controller and performance aren’t going to matter to a majority of gamers. Price is the only thing of some importance. And none of them outside price are going to matter more than games
It's not console warring. Exclusive games are what drive the competition for all three companies. You may not care that xbox doesn't have a lot of good exclusive games but a lot of other people do. The companies included which is why Microsoft is acquiring all of these game studios.
Caring about exclusivity is childish. If Microsoft releases an incredible game like Psychonauts 2, you don't dismiss it simply because people with a PlayStation got to enjoy it was well.
Why wouldn't exclusivity matter though? Like I play FIFA, 2k, Cod, etc that are multiplat. I also play God of War, Horizon, Gran Tourismo, Spiderman, etc. It makes sense for me to get the console that has good exclusives in addition to having all the multiplatform games. Thats literally the differentiator between the consoles. You go to where your friends are or who has the games you want to play. Multiplatform games don't add value to a console because you can get them anywhere which is why MS was trying to make a big deal out of Halo Infinite and why ES6 and Starfield (and possibly COD in the future) are going to be exclusive
He’s being dumb as a brick on purpose. He doesn’t understand that consumers simply comparing subjective value isn’t “console warring”. Caring about exclusives is “dumb” I guess. What a weirdo lmao.
They think it matters how exclusive the audience is to a game rather than a game being able to be played by as many people as possible.
We don't have Netflix or Prime or Disney+ fanboys like we get with the pathetic and annoying console fanboys that constantly make threads like this one.
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I have both series x and ps5 and let's be real... what xbox exclusives have been worthy of game of the year? Forza?