Hmm. Interesting. I was a huge PS4 faboi as many of you know. But after seeing the PS5 I can't really say I want one. And I was never considering getting an Xbox ever again, not after rescuing my friends from the X360 days and onto brighter futures with the PS4 lol. And this certainly isnt helping any. Not to influence me, that is.
Now. I wonder if they are aiming for the lower cost spot occupied by things like the Wii/Switch? I can kind of see that being their angle, but without having some sort of killer app or feature(s) (ie: the Switch's portability comes to mind) I can only see this selling marginally well?
I still can't figure out who the Xbox Series console is actually for. Everything available on it is on PC... So like, why?
I mean, this is just the problem with the Xbox brand in general.
Outside of the entirety of the OG Xbox and the early years of the 360, a lot of these games stayed exclusive to the Microsoft consoles. The 3D Ninja Gaidens, a lot of Sega games that still haven't seen a re-release (maybe get on this at some point after getting done porting a certain series over completely? And yeah, while Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1 is on everything as well as Sigma 2, Sigma 2 is still censored to shit for no reason that I can tell), some other exclusives here and there, and they had a solid base. The early years of the 360 (think pre-Kinect) did the same sort of thing on top of having some stuff that I would love to see get ported to modern platforms.
But after that, the games that used to be their massive sellers were ported to PC. Halo, Gears (at least, any Gears game that's the remaster of the OG and what came after it), and future exclusives stopped being actual exclusives. Hell, they ported Killer Instinct to Steam, and that was the only game they had at launch that I was kind of looking forward to (kind of because it didn't have that many characters at launch, but y'know).
Then the question becomes: "well, why the hell do I need to buy an Xbox system when the PC is gonna be able to play the game just the same, if not better, than whatever Microsoft has on offer that will look impressive for a few months before the PCs outdo whatever both of these systems are selling you, and its "BC" options (emulation and the many ports of other games) is better than what the consoles have?"
Even for console gamers, I can't see this selling all that well unless if you're in some lower income bracket and you're using some hand me down 1080p TV/monitor. I have a 4K TV at this point, and while I haven't actually played anything that really takes advantage of that resolution (I still am rocking a 1080, and not even that is enough for 4K on something like Injustice 2, not at full speed or maxed out graphical settings), the Xbox Series X just seems like a more rounded option atm especially given the better built-in storage capacity IMO.
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