What the heck is Microsoft doing? The Gamescom show was a flop.

Microsoft has already hamstrung the Xbox One sales proposition by promising that everything that hits Xbox will hit PC as well. I don’t really have a big problem with this, but it makes the word “exclusive” seem silly in the context of any games discussed by Microsoft. There is no such thing as an Xbox exclusive, and even then, games are often temporarily exclusive to Xbox before hitting PlayStation a bit later, as we saw with Rise of the Tomb Raider and as we’ll see with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

The launch line-up for Xbox One X is comprised of Forza Motorsport 7, Cuphead, Battlegrounds, a “Definitive” edition of ReCore, and enhancements to lots of existing games. A total of one of those games is a Microsoft game built with the One X in mind, and that’s a racing game. The other games are, in order, an indie game, a game already out on PC, an old, under-performing Xbox One game, and patches for a bunch of other games. None of those are bad things per se. But there’s very little new on the list. Cuphead existed long before the One X was even out of the planning stages.

To be clear, these are fine games. Cuphead looks awesome. And PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a big coup for Microsoft, even as a timed exclusive. But making these games “the fall lineup” is putting too much weight on them.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/08/23/xbox-one-x-gamescom-show-failure/