Which mean platform with only Halo/Gears/Forza is viable, and MS focus on GaaS is the right path.
It's certainly not impossible for this to happen but there is a huge volume of Sony exclusives covering a ton of genres, some of which have no or very limited presence on Xbox. I mean you are basically saying someone doesn't want any of the below games (not even close to exhaustive):
Bloodborne
World of Final Fantasy
Uncharted 4
MLB The Show
Yakuza series (going forward)
Persona 5
Dragon Quest Builders
Nioh
Gravity Rush 1 and 2
King of Fighters XIV
The Last Guardian
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Not to mention other future games like God of War, Detroit: Become Human, Spider-Man, The Last of Us 2, Ni no Kuni 2, and Ace Combat 7.
That is a LOT to give up, not to mention if you have a modern PC it's highly likely the Xbox exclusives will also be there.
Nintendo is certainly a different beast. They are the only company that can get me to buy hardware for one game... I'd love to see them do well again with the Switch
To be fair you listed JRPGs, a baseball game, an open world single player and a single player action adventure with a MP component. No racers, no shooters, no multiplayer shooters, no heavily service based games, Mmos etc. so yeah, a lot of people aren't interested in thoseIt's certainly not impossible for this to happen but there is a huge volume of Sony exclusives covering a ton of genres, some of which have no or very limited presence on Xbox. I mean you are basically saying someone doesn't want any of the below games (not even close to exhaustive):
Bloodborne
World of Final Fantasy
Uncharted 4
MLB The Show
Yakuza series (going forward)
Persona 5
Dragon Quest Builders
Nioh
Gravity Rush 1 and 2
King of Fighters XIV
The Last Guardian
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Not to mention other future games like God of War, Detroit: Become Human, Spider-Man, The Last of Us 2, Ni no Kuni 2, and Ace Combat 7.
That is a LOT to give up, not to mention if you have a modern PC it's highly likely the Xbox exclusives will also be there.
Maybe I'm old, but I want to see Nintendo have a general console again where I can play my third party games. I have high hopes for switch.
If Microsoft offered only Halo/GOW/Forza as exclusives, would Xbox still be viable?
Yeah, I can see someone not interested in any of those. Hell, I only see two or three at most for me.
Aren't sales kinda dwindling on all these franchises? MS needs to keep things fresh with new big franchises here and there. So no, I don't think so.
To be fair you listed JRPGs, a baseball game, an open world single player and a single player action adventure with a MP component. No racers, no shooters, no multiplayer shooters, no heavily service based games, Mmos etc. so yeah, a lot of people aren't interested in those
What are the top 5 games likely to be played at any time. GTAv, NBA2k, Madden, COD, Battlefield etc. those genres aren't covered by Sony
Not really; it definitely maintained very strong sales from inertia, but PS3 got to catch up pretty well and I think by the time the Xbox One and PS4 were out they had (barely) passed 360's sales. More importantly, this got a ton of people to jump ship and really cripped the Xbox One as the follow-up.
As I see it right now....the Xbox is an unnesecary product and I used to be a huge xbox fanboy but damn, Microsoft really fucked up
Nah, theyre freaking out about how Microsoft has seemingly only three of their own AAA franchises being made in their studios now and their third party relationships have worn some. That first Microsoft exclusives thread in the OP has shrunk in notable ways compared to the competition.People are really freaking out about Scalebound huh?
People who want a red ocean competing Nintendo - as in making GC style consoles that are broadly in line with the competition in power terms and capable of receiving third party ports by default - inherently want an Xbox division competing and being profitable on its own merits, not competing on Papa Microsofts multi billion dollar bail out money safety nets.
People are really freaking out about Scalebound huh?
Bought my Xbox for Halo 5 & Gears. The former ended up disappointing me and I've since lost all confidence in 343i. Gears on the other hand is now on PC so there's no reason for me to have any Xbox consoles hooked up (besides 4K blurays but I'm still waiting for them to reach this country)
nope
FH3 is the best racing game i have ever played and i played FH2&3 a lot for a racing game that i think about skipping FH4
don't enjoy that much GOW and see it as a above average generic shooter
Halo 5 MP is fucking amazing, i hope the upcoming Halo MP games will be like 5 , but i will not buy a console for just 1 game unless it's Zelda