But has Microsoft at least tried to have acquire any of these devs they have worked with over the generations? That is the answer we need to know. And they had at least two console generations for them to try and build up a series of first and second party studios. Sea Of Thieves looks interesting but Crackdown 3 not so much. The first two Crackdown games may have been considered special for their time but not so much now and the games didn't sell anywhere near as much as Halo or Gears so Crackdown 3 likely won't be a killer exclusive for the Xbox One .
Again.. I've spoken about leadership changes, there was a difference in focus and many of the studios under performed and were shutdown. Like fasa studios/lionhead. Fasa was basically DOA with their shitty FPS (although it had some high points). Lionhead couldn't produce a game after molyneux left.
Also no one is saying it needs killer exclusives. Good games is all it needs.
Crackdown 3 just looks "meh" it just looks like a tech demo instead of a game and it doesn't help that Microsoft does nothing but talk about the physics and destruction in this game, I have yet to see them talk about the story, multiplayer, and other game mechanics, all I see is just people walking around in a bland and empty open world map just shooting and blowing stuff up. Crackdown seems like the wrong game for Microsoft to boast about as their flagship game to show off the Xbox One X power. Scalebound would have made a way better flagship title for the Xbox One X, it was an actually compelling and interesting game. Crackdown 3 will probably flop hard since the open world gimmick isn't as innovating as it was last gen and with so many open world games out now all that will do is make Crackdown 3 look very mediocre since it hardly appears to be a step up from the last gen versions aside from destruction.
Scalebound looked terrible. You can wave "it looks last gen" around like a moron all you want, but I'd much rather have last gen visuals over last gen gameplay like sony's flagship games. Not to mention it looks fine.
Say what you want about Sony exclusives but at least they're delivering games. What wrong with the movie blended games? I thought console gamers loved those, they still seem to be selling tons on both platforms.
Microsoft is also delivering games, again they've funded many projects and have good first party lineup so stop being stupid.
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