It's MS's fault, not the audience. For example, Japanese RPGs are not as popular on Xbox as Playstation. But how many JRPGs are on Xbox vs Playstation? I would argue Playstation has more. So why would JRPGs be as popular on Xbox when there aren't as many of them? MS looked to remedy that but only in half-assed fashion as is their m.o. They published Lost Odyssey for Xbox 360 and then when it failed to sell 390 gzillion copies right out of the gate they told Sakaguchi to get the hell out of their building as MS is prone to do to those that make good games but fail to sell in a similar way to Halo. And speaking of Halo that was their big early success. So right away MS captured the shooter audience. But they haven't done the work that needs to be done to get other audiences on board the way Sony has. And a lot of these other audiences are niche, titles in these other genres are probably not gonna push several million units each even when done well. But having those audiences on your side is still important. MS just won't do what needs to be done to get them. You need to publish many different exclusives in many genres. If they don't all sell gangbusters so what ... look at them as an investment in your platform diversity. Don't give up on certain genres immediately, stick with it. Do it long enough and eventually those other audiences will come. Sony does this, MS doesn't ... hence why Xbox has become known as the dudebro platform.

This is something I've long complained about with MS. If something doesn't sell gangbusters right away they dump it. Profitable ain't good enough, a game has gotta be a hit. They've actually tried quite a few genres over the years but most of them get scrapped pretty quickly.

Well, I don't agree with that either.

Speaking of X1 bc I'm still amazed it even works. I never thought X1 was powerful enough to emulate X360 games. I've heard before that when it comes to emulation for it to work really well ya want your machine to be 10X as powerful as what you're emulating. And X1 is only around half that vs the X360, probably less when ya match the CPUs. Coding sorcery.

People always complaining about remasters but I don't see what the problem is. If ya don't want them don't buy them.

There's almost certainly more people playing it on PC though. But not too many of those may have bought it.

Won't happen. MS will trail Sony this entire generation. That's a done deal. If the hardware were equal then maybe they could come back but they're gonna be facing an entire generation of digital foundry articles recommending the PS4 version of multiplatform games 75% of the time or more. And MS doesn't have a double agent running Sony's gaming division like Sony did MS's gaming division the last few years of gen 7 and the beginning of this one. Yes, I know there's no smoking gun sort of proof that Mattrick was cashing Sony paychecks but c'mon, nothing else adequately explains the degree of his incompetence. :) Sure, it could be turned around with a few dozen exclusive titles of excellent quality but that ain't gonna happen. MS doesn't publish nearly enough exclusives to close a gap like this.

Unfortunately having a preference isn't enough for some people. They feel compelled to take their fanboyism to absurd lengths and say dumbass things like that.

It appears to be unstoppable in Europe. But although they won't outdo the PS4 in NA I do believe MS has a shot at being respectively competitive here.

I will never get into gaming on phones or tablets cuz I can't tolerate not having physical controls. This thing with buttons and sticks/dpads represented as graphics on the screen that you operate via the touchscreen is unplayable to me.

No matter how fun it is I'm guessing it won't be able to do better on metacritic than a score in the 80s. Critics are just tired of it.