Xbox needs a great E3 show after that Crackdown delay

It’s not that we don’t get good games from Microsoft, or that Xbox doesn’t have its share of great games. Some of my favorite games this generation, like Sunset Overdrive and Forza Horizon 3, are Microsoft exclusives. But when you try to line their list up with that of Sony or Nintendo, it becomes apparent how truly anemic Microsoft’s offerings have been in the last few years – and really even back on the Xbox 360.

Looking back, the list of memorable games that you could only play on Xbox is painfully short and overfull with sequels. When you knock out Gears of War, Halo, and Forza, you’re left with just a few big games like Alan Wake, Crackdown, and Fable II, and a lot of flawed-but-fun (for the right audience) titles like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon. And tons of Xbox Live Arcade games.

Meanwhile, the PlayStation 3 had its standard stable of stuff like Gran Turismo but brought a wider variety of games to the show. It had its grimdark shooters like Resistance and Killzone, adventures like Uncharted, God of War III, Ratchet and Clank, Metal Gear Solid, and inFamous, and weird stuff like LittleBigPlanet. That doesn’t take into account its huge library of Japanese games such as Yakuza and Persona.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2018/06/08/xbox-crackdown-delay-e3-2018/