Did MS really need to show anything more after its 2014?

So, if we use Metacritic, Microsoft had 6 highly rated titles released in the span of two months between each, from September to November:

Forza Horizon 2

Sunset Overdrive

D4

Dance Central Spotlight

Fantasia

Halo: Master Chief Collection (nothing to brag about but still)

All, apart from MCC rated at least 7 on Gamespot too. And all apart from D4, and MCC rated 8 or above.

Was it really Microsoft that needed to show some something for next year to make it up for this year?

Please, really enlighten me how is it THEM who needed it?

What exactly do you have next year..?

Quantum Break (which most likely will be released on PC) and Halo 5?

Only Xbox games i am little interested in is Sunset Overdrive and Quantum break. So imo they need show me something more that want me buy a Xbox.

Fable Legend, Crackdown 3, Halo 5, Forza 6 (maybe), Inside, Ori and the Blind Forest, Scream Ride, Scalebound, Phantom Dust and a bunch of other titles that have yet to be announced. There will be plenty of games for XB1 in 2015. They didn't need to announce any of them now. Some will be announced before the E3, I'm sure

No. As I said in another post, Sony needs to have a hyped up event for every meaningless title no a days.

Street Fighter could have showed up in the news column and no one would have gave a shit. But since it is at a Sony event, along with all the other garbage they feel needs hyping, it gets crowned on a pedestal. Typical cow fanboys.

Microsoft will avoid meaningless shows like this and save it for E3.

Yeah that's it, those two games. Oh but you forgot Fable, Ori, Scalebound, Space Engineer, ScreamRide. This is all before the E3 megatons and I am sure i am missing some too.

They've announced and shown games not releasing until way in the future- as far as 2016. Clearly they felt some sort of need to do that.

Lems seem to be satisfied with a mediocre line up so nah

Because the current and future offerings elsewhere are more compelling.

Also, MCC is still broken as f*ck and I'm resentful for it.

lemmings even have to mention scream ride LMAO

2015 will be a really salty year for lems

Yeah they sort of do need to up their game. I was really tempted to get an Xbone this holiday. I just couldn't justify it. The only exclusives that interested me were Dead Rising 3 (now on PC), Ryse (Now on PC), Sunset Overdrive, and Halo MCC (broken). So really just one game, and one potential game if it is ever fixed properly. Not much in terms of incentive. Looking forward to QB, but that will probably go to PC also.

Phil really needs to get some exclusives ramping up. I hear the Gears game is going well in production, and could be moved up, so that is a plus. But we are still looking at the usual Halo / Gears / Forza and a few other games. That worked fine for them last gen when they were in the lead, and the PS3 and 360 were pretty much the same performance wise. That's of course changed this gen. They are not in the lead anymore, and the PS4 is the better piece of hardware.

TC already damage controlling ahead of time

MS's game showing this year was pretty mediocre, same as Sony. They need to start getting out some games to be worth buying. Quantum Break looks great and they have maybe a couple other good looking ones coming up, but there's not much. But MS really isn't giving me much incentive to pick up an Xbox One.

PC pretty much wins right now, but at least Wii U has good exclusives.

Microsoft didn't need to announce new games in my opinion but it would have been nice if they at least showed gameplay of their new games.

People keep listing games like Crackdown and Scalebound as 2015 titles but we don't even know if these games are releasing until 2016 or so. I mean, neither game has gameplay footage yet whereas a game like Uncharted 4 has gameplay footage and it's releasing Fall 2015.

Now that I think about it, I'm glad Microsoft didn't announce any new games. They probably could have showed off a CGI trailer for Gears of War or a CGI trailer for Rare's new title but we know those games most likely aren't releasing until 2016 at the least so why bother? I want to see what's coming out NOW/SOON! Not what's coming out in two years. That probably explains why Sony isn't showing off Media Molecule's new IP, Guerrilla's new IP, Sony Bend, Sony London, Sony Santa Monica, Quantic Dream, etc. If they're not ready to show yet then they're going to save them for later when they can give a full reveal.

Golly, could it be because the Xbox One is getting destroyed in worldwide sales the PS4?

The only exclusive that seemed to do anything for the XBone in 2014 was Fire Sale: Please Get Me Off This Shelf Turbo Edition

@Salt_The_Fries:

Yes. Excluding yourself from any opportunity to entice potential customers is a pretty silly move

No more RRoD this gen to inflate Xbox sales by tens of millions like Microsoft had the luxury of with the POS Xbox 360.

The Xbox One is completely dead in two out of the three major console regions and is rapidly falling further and further behind the PS4 by hundreds of thousands of units each month.

It is getting easier and easier each month for Sony to secure third party exclusives or publishers to outright dump the Xbox One with the massive worldwide installed base advantage that is rapidly growing.

Desperation price cuts, dumping the Sony Eye Toy ripoff Kinect, giving away brand new games for free have all done nothing slow how quickly Sony is leaving Microsoft behind in worldwide installed base.

The only way anyone could possibly try to claim 'Microsoft doesn't need to show anything' is if they have already thrown in the towel on this gen is has already moved on to the 'I never really cared about sales anyway' rationalization.

I admit it, the Turbo part got me. lol.

Well yeah, it is the end of 2014. So they need to show things for 2015

Should have manned up and got a refund.

:) I am working on my burns. To have a wittier and more fun-filled 2015.

Dafuq is this thread. Fantasia? Dance Central? Yeah, I guess they are good for 2015 because they released these dance games in 2014.

This is some pretty awful damage control. Their first half of 2015 is pretty much completely empty while the competetion has tons of exclusives, so I'd say they should show more stuff. Even if they don't announce a new game, they could show off their announced games.

It really looks like MS announced their games too early at E3. People doubt that Uncharted and Zelda will make 2015, yet most of the Xbone's exclusives have only had CGI trailers. The further a generation goes on, you can tell MS just lacks the 1st party that Sony and Nintendo have.

Should have, that way they could have told me no and I could join the class action suit once it's filed.

Well they do if they expect to move consoles.
So far I am underwhelmed with their games and thus have no desire to pick up the X1. Now if it gets some games that could and probably would change unless they put them on PC as well.

So a shitty year of games for the xbone makes MS bulletproof but 20 years of playstation greatness and Sony still has to prove themselves?

LOL at Lems pumping up Screamride

Is that supposed to be some kind of hot ticket for the XBone?

A lame ass Roller Coaster Tycoon knockoff?

The PSX keynote simply reminded me that all I need this gen is a PS4. Microsoft needs to step it up.

And of course they needed to show something

The PS4, PC, and Wii U lineups for 2015 shit all over the XBone.

But by all means, have fun playing nothing but Forza, Sunset Overdrive, and the broken ass Master Flop Collection for the next 10-12 months.

And Microsoft and Xbox fans have no one to blame but themselves.

Microsoft and its fans spent the first half of the past thirteen years under the absurd delusion that their Shiny Green Power Ranger was going to somehow magically lead Microsoft to victory in the console market. Instead Microsoft just avoided coming in last place with the first Xbox and dead last with the Xbox 360.

Then Microsoft saw Nintendo's massive success with the Wii and thought they were going to do the same by bolting on their Sony Eye Toy ripoff and turn the Xbox brand from a niche Dudebro console into a mass market casual machine that tens and tens of millions of moms, teenage girls, and other casual gamers would be rushing out to buy dance and fitness games for.

And Xbox fans cheered on the ridiculously fake Kinect E3 demos and rushed out the buy and brag about the POS addon.

Now that they have dumped the Kinect garbage Microsoft is left with the tiniest first party studio lineup that a large portion are casual shovelware focused developers leftover from the Kinect days.

And what does the dunce Phil do? He blows 2 billion dollars on a novelty Java game developer.

Boggle.

It should be obvious what the rest of the gen is going to look like for the Xbox One:

* The standard endless Halo,Gears,Forza cycle

* The weak lineup of Xbox One games padded out with increasingly downgraded PC ports

* 'Zombie DLC' or other such ilk since it is going to be increasingly difficult for Microsoft to afford to pay off third party developers for exclusivity on a consoles that is tens of millions of units behind the leading PS4

I can't wait for next year, all three consoles is going to have great exclusives that I'm looking forward too. Sony with Bloodborne, Street Fighter and Uncharted. Microsoft with Halo, Quantum Break and Tomb Raider. Even Nintendo coming strong next year with Zelda and Starfox plus all the third party games, damn I'm glad I got all three consoles so I'm not going to lose out and anything.

Just because it has a roller coaster and it is a knock off? STFU. The goal of Roller Coaster Tycoon isn't to smash people through buildings and to their death.

Oh

So it doesn't even have the kind of depth and theme park management that Roller Coaster Tycoon had?

So I guess it'll be mildly entertaining for 20 minutes to smash people into buildings and then it will lose all of its appeal?

Have fun with that

Nah before that, like before the 3rd patch or whatever. Told Microsoft to suck a dick, got my ups voucher, and then promptly got my 60 bucks back.

Aint got time for their hoetry.

Class action suit will be some pansy settlement or something.

Yeah I will and thanks for admitting you are jealous, crying and lost the argument.

I never said it was a megaton. I just pointed out that Sollent Tofu kinda left out some games.

Even if it is 20 minutes of fun that is what i am willing to pay for.

Jealous?

If I'm feeling the need for a roller coaster/theme park fix, I'll just go to Steam and re-install Roller Coaster Tycoon 3.

To me it's just funny how you repeat ad-nauseum that the PS4 has no games, but then you're scraping the bottom of the barrel with goofy shit like this to somehow make the 2015 XBone lineup seem more appealing.

Face it, XBoners have nothing to look forward to in 2015 besides yet another Halo game that 343 is bound to royally **** up.

It depends on which argument side you are on.

For the last 4 years cows have said that the 360 has no games. Still the flip side is indies like World of Tanks and Multiplats.

So if the 360 has no support then how is that any different than the PS4 getting no support? It isn't. The PS4 has nothing substantial and 2015 will better but really not as good. You are just crying that the entire list of 2015 games aren't in front of you.

They are coming and they will be a plenty.

Nope. Xbox One is $350 with 2 games. Its selling all over the place had have a great lineup of games for this year and next year. They didn't have to show anything else, nor should they feel the need to. Having said that though I think MS should give Christmas gifts to the Xbox One user base. Something like that will show a little appreciation to their fans.

That's because the 360 didn't have dick for exclusives over the last 2-3 years before the XBone launched.

The beginning and middle of the 360 lineup was great...the end of it has sucked a bag of dicks.

Sony was rolling out new, amazing games like The Last of Us for the PS3 while Microsoft was just pumping out the standard rehashes of Halo, Gears and Forza...just like always.

The PS4 has plenty of shit that is substantial for 2015. Bloodborne gets released in March and games like Uncharted 4, Deep Down, No Man's Sky, The Order, Persona 5, Ratchet and Clank, The Tomorrow Children, WiLD and Rime will follow.

The XBone has Quantum Break, Scalebound, and...Halo 5. And judging from what we've seen/heard so far about Halo 5, it seems like 343 is doing their damndest to bastardize the franchise and turn it into another run of the mill CoD clone.

TC cracks me up

Unless you expect your fanbase to keep playing games from the previous year, then yeah, you kinda need to show new stuff for the next year (regardless of the previous year being abysmal or amazing).

That's just how this works.

Hahahaha...willing to pay a premium price for 20 minutes of gaming. Hahahaha....lame.

Don't forget about Tomb Raider. There is some salt for your ass. No Mans Sky isn't exclusive to PS4 and most likely will come to Xbox ONE. Deep Down is probably a DriveClub mess since it has been announced so long ago and then forgotten.

why do you leave out Ori and the Blind Forest and Fable? Only include the ones that support your argument? Gears of War (former GOTY) anyone? You seem like you can only be convinced after E3. So wait till then.

Off Topic needs you. They are taking about a man raped by a horse.

Nobodies even talking about sunset overdrive anymore. The botched 343 halo collection stole all their thunder.

If I can't mention No Man's Sky, then I don't see how the hell you can mention a timed exclusive like Tomb Raider.

You have no idea if No Man's Sky will eventually end up on the XBone. PC? Sure

But we know for a fact that Tomb Raider will get released on the PS4. Probably 3-4 months after it comes out for the XBone.

As for the other games you mentioned, does anyone even give two shits about Fable anymore? The first game was great, and then that whole franchise went down the shitter.

And yes, more Gears...and more Halo and more Forza. Same story, different day.

Microsoft is one of the most profitable corporations on the planet yet they have no interest in developing any new IP's for the XBOX. Instead, they rehash the same 3 series of games over and over and pay $2 billion to buy out the guys who made Minecraft.

LOL

343 should just be renamed to 321.

No steps foward..

All speculation.

Now you mix a list with personal taste. Gears isn't your cup of tea? Oh just disregard it then and the millions of people who want to play it.

My point is there are fools making 2015's list of games seem like they are printed and done with. That is all and no more to follow. There are so many games to be announced and you think it will just be Halo, Forza, Fable. What about Quantum Break, Ori, Sunset Overdrive, Scalebound etc? These are all new and pretty much defeat your one sided thinking.