There's nothing to be mad about. It says it in the article but whenever someone mentions it, you guys call it downplaying.
It's not the article's fault a lot of people are otherwise using that specific info point and turning it into a talking point to "remind" people of something they don't need to be reminded of, because the truth is most people quoting it are doing so to play down the fact Series S has sold as well as it did this Black Friday.
These are the new IPs Sony did in the last gen. Horizon series, spiderman, ghost of Tsushima, Detroit becomes human, days gone, death stranded.
Now they did returnal, and are getting wolverine.
That is just new series Playstation managed to make in the last gen. All ms did was sea of theives as a new IP.
This gen is where the new acquisition will make new IP for them. As of now, only Psychonauts 2 is new IP for xbox (1st one was before purchase).
Those are also games Sony made for PS4; we're talking about the current-generation systems here, no? So why are you bringing up the older releases for 8th-gen systems? Some of those games aren't even recent releases.
Mentioned Returnal already as one of the only new IP they made which was successful this gen (so far; albeit the gen has just started but point still stands). You also conveniently forgot to mention Destruction All-Stars, and if you're just focusing on new IP from them over the years you also forgot The Tomorrow Children, The Last Guardian (well, it's "part" of the Ico/SoTC series but doesnn't have any strong story or game mechanic ties to them), Driveclub, The Order 1886 etc. Wonder why, could it have something to do with the fact that despite those being new IP they either failed or started off horribly, negating the idea that a game needs to be a "new IP" in order to be good?
MS had a lot of other new IP last gen; Crimson Dragon, Ryse, Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break, Sea of Thieves, ReCore etc. Were some of these flawed? Of course. Did some, like Sea of Thieves, get a lot better over time? Yes. Did MS do less new IP overall than Sony? Yes. But you already know the circumstances that came out which caused that to occur, I'm just here to remind you they did a lot more than just Sea of Thieves as a new IP last gen.
And again, where is this energy for Nintendo? How many brand new, genuinely new IP have they made over the past five or so years? Not very many; most of their games are spinoffs of established IP brands or sequels. Their E3 conference was 90% sequels and spin-offs, but they still had the 2nd-best conference of the summer behind Microsoft's. People seem to be fine with Nintendo releasing mostly sequels and spinoffs, so why is it so bad if MS leaned a bit more on established IP last gen? Why would a publisher NOT lean on established IP, when we know you can still innovate with them to keep them fresh, and keep them high-quality?
We're seeing that right now from Microsoft with Flight Sim, Forza Horizon 5, and Halo Infinite. The new IP have trickled along, and more will come. Considering some of the absolute biggest hyped rumors surrounding PlayStation new games is WRT franchise revivals (MGS, Silent Hill) and sequels, I think you should just put away the idea that a company needs to keep hitting with new IP to be good. And even so, if you've kept up with any of the Microsoft leaks, most of the projects their studios are working on currently are new IP. In fact, they seem to have more new IP coming over the next three years than Sony and Nintendo.
Lastly, are you
really counting Wolverine as a new IP? I think you should hold off on that claim until we learn how the game design and game mechanics function, because if it turns out to be structurally the same as the Spider-Man games, just with Wolverine and Wolverine/X-Men characters and such locales, then I think considering it a new IP would be a bit of a stretch.
I've been out of things for a while, so, what is it with the anti-MS sentiment on this board?
The usual anti-Americanism, and thin justification for piracy, or is it something different this time around?
avin
Microsoft was the whipping dog last gen due to disastrous reveal and losing steam around late 2015 in terms of big-impact games.
A lot of the same people still trying to find ways to downplay their recent success, were also ridiculing them last gen and asked them to be "more competitive".
What they apparently
really wanted was Microsoft to appear they were being more competitive without actually being more competitive.
Microsoft is now providing genuine competition; the Zenimax acquisition made a lot of the people "wanting" (but not really wanting) MS to be competitive to regret saying it, now that they know MS are actually trying this generation.
Ever since, they have been finding every way to coyly downplay any good news WRT Microsoft and Xbox brand, even when there is no legitimate room for criticism (MS have made some mistakes this gen so far but not nearly as much as some of the people who hate them would like to think).
Rinse and repeat.
Also, I don't know if any of it is "anti-American"; that's probably a bit of a stretch. I think it's more because they're used to one platform holder always being the "bad" one and they got so used to Microsoft being that one last gen, they aren't ready to entertain a possible reality where they are no longer the "bad" one, or where Sony and/or Nintendo might end up being the "bad" one, or where there is no longer a "bad" one.
Xbox 1 sold 1.2M in November 2014 when MS did a fire sale price drop to compete with PS4. It obviously didn’t amount to anything overall.
I hope people aren’t using this data, with no numbers by the way, about the least popular system with the least popular model with the most availability out of all consoles as some validation comeback story.
More salty tears, pretty please!
