What if those on the fence would like to buy the more powerful system that most of their friends have, but don't want to miss a 3rd party game they're a fan of? No matter what they choose, they're screwed?
Yea, they were not the market segement for this, they were deadset on PS4, and as I have said before, these consumer pools get shafted by this.
Pretty simple really.
As a self procclaimed "Huge Xbox brand fan" (your words), maybe you would rather like they invest the (probably) large sum they are spending on this deal into developping a 1st party title for the Xbox One or a title that otherwise wouldn't be made (like Dead Rising 3 back in the days)?
It is not "neutral", not even for existing Xbox owners. Not when other titles such as Phantom Dust have been put on hold after their announcement.
Nothing is created by this deal.
Nothing is gained.
Just like the stupid Destiny deal on PS4, it is only made to block content from another platform and it is damaging for gamers. And here it's for an entire game, one heavily associated with the Playstation historically.
I wonder how Xbox owners would feel if Sony now thinks it will be ok to make a deal with Ubi to get a 1 year exclu on their next Tom Clancy game? Or with EA on ME4?
I pray things don't escalate frankly, because from where I am sitting this is what we could be looking at and there won't be any winners at this game.
First, I am not going to apologize for the brand love and I will tell you why. I grew up with this, it's where my fondest gaming memories are. This is exactly like the PS3 situation last gen, it was the worse console (for third party) but people stuck with it, because they too grew up with PlayStation. This is not all of them, obviously, some had no problem switching to 360 as their main because of the advantages. I have a PS4 but I won't switch to it as my main, though obviously I got it for a reason (Naughty Dog games). This is the same like growing up with something like the Fast and Furious franchise, the new movies are full of cliches and corny lines, but you still love watching them, and they still put a smile on your face.
Second, they do have new IP's that they have invested in, so buying this exclusivity has not affected that. You can't say Phantom Dust was put on hold because of the ROTR deal.
And lastly, it seems some of my responders didn't read all my posts on this argument. I am on the same side of the fence everyone is. I was arguing that this thing isn't completely black and white.