That’s probably why they’ve been buying companies like ZeniMax and Obsidian…
Even at that I don’t think they did very well in the 360 era anyway. They performed well until Sony started pumping out a boatload of fantastic games and left 360 in the dust.
Nobody remembers the last 2-3 years leading into the Xbox one release that was totally barren of anything to play on xbox. It was ridiculed as the multiplat console since it was easier to develop for and those games usually did have slightly better performance on 360 but, it rarely had anything of it’s own.
Those are the years Sony was pumping out Last of Us, Gran Turismo 6, Little Big Planet 3, Ratchet and Clank etc.
Plus then with the PS4 era it wasn’t even close.
Are you sure?
It seemed like PS3 only managed to match the Xbox 360 near the very end.
Not only that, but it wasn’t a boatload of fantastic games from what I remember.
From 2010 to 2014, they had God of War III, LittleBigPlanet 2, Killzone 3, inFamous 2, Resistance 3, The Last of Us, Gran Turismo 6 and LittleBigPlanet 3.
Until 2010, the Xbox 360 was getting all of the good games, and third-party FPS games did better on it because the controller was better.
For the PS4, for a while it and the Xbox One were mostly getting remasters.
It did far better than the Xbox One however, thanks to Microsoft’s anticonsumer direction for it.
However, then Sony did the same thing.
No idea how the current consoles are faring though.
You’re probably right in terms of overall sales. That PS3 was a big expensive piece of kit.
It’s hard to debate the quality of the games though in comparison in the second half of their lifespan. Xbox have been struggling with exclusives for probably more than a decade until now.
With the new consoles the Series X is sick but it doesn’t feel new at all. It still uses the same Xbox one menus and they aren’t in 4K. PS5 has stupid expensive games but everything is shiny, new and exciting.
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Fable III, Halo: Reach, Torchlight, Gears of War 3, Forza Motorsport 4 and Forza Horizon were exclusives it had from 2010 to 2012.
So, it only had 2 years of no good exclusives.
I don’t know how good or bad the menus of the Xbox One were, but if they were good, I’d say the only problem is the lack of 4K, and even then, only if they looked bad at 4K resolutions.
That’s exactly what they’re doing. They can’t can’t compete anymore, so “lets just buy the market”
Then everyone acts shocked when they announce COD is staying multiplatform because MS finally realized they were edging closer to anti-trust lol.
With their current track record, it doesn’t bode well for any company swallowed up by Xbox.