This is an interesting point. My main issue with Xbox One X so far is firsty party is where you really show your graphics capability. Forza looks beautiful but then SoT looks ok/good and state of decay and crackdown just looks bad when considering they are suppose to represent the most powerful console on the market.
Also i am going to be honest, I was really looking forward to crackdown 3 but i get this feeling it is being sent to die. I wouldn't mind a few months delay and release it in a non-busy season just so it doesn't totally kill the franchise.
Yeah it's a shame man. Imagine if they had been able to reveal all kinds of new IP that can be considered to be on the same level as a Sony exclusive. Especially with a brand new console, the most powerful one right now....it actually is crucial. Anthem showed what the X is capable of (yeah i know a lot of people don't believe it was ingame at all) but i would love to see a first party game showing that.
You start off your post saying that it's missing "that one title" and then dismiss Halo 6 because it's "just one title."
What Microsoft is missing is a game that exceeds expectations. We all expect Halo to be incredible and when it came out, it wasn't incredible. Most weren't expecting Quantum Break to be anything but mediocre and reviews bore that out. Really the only exception to this problem this generation has been Forza Horzion 3, which cleared a very high bar people placed.
Microsoft has to have a AAA type game that does what FH3 did. The problem is that Halo and Gears have the weight of their incredible predecessors on their shoulders so it would appear that they need to do so with a new IP. Maybe Sea of Thieves will be that game? Maybe it will be Crackdown. Maybe it won't happen this generation.
Sorry man, i worded that the wrong way. I meant to say a brand new title next to a established, even if after Halo 5 a flawed franchise like Halo to really show the power of the system. I find it frustrating as hell and unbelieveable that they are sitting on so many promising franchises and not doing SHIT with it. Crimson Skies, oh hey we're getting the first one via OG Xbox BC, superb....but how about finally a freaking brand new one with stellar visuals and fun online play? Mech Assault? Conker, Banjo, and so on.
If it's not gonna happen this generation tons of gamers are going to be extemely disappointed. Because did they go out and got themselves a Xbox One X only to play multiplats in the best way? With exceptions of Halo 6 undoubtedly looking really good, the yearly Forza game and Gears 5 in a year or two? Man i sure hope not. Phil said they have signed off on a few things but won't be talking about it this year. Hopefully it's something promising and hopefully we get something from it next E3.
I honestly thought they were going to open with Crackdown 3 and it would be their massive major tentpole for this year. It should have had a long gameplay demo like Spider-Man, not a 160 second trailer where nearly half of that was live-action jokes and the rest was weirdly unconvincing gameplay mostly using shots from freeform camera angles.
Not going ahead with Ryse 2 was a mistake for both parties. Imagine if Ryse 2: Knights of England was real and opened E3 with this massive gameplay demo akin to God of War, ending in a battle against a dragon or something.
Microsoft needs a successful new IP like The Last of Us, Bloodborne, Horizon Zero Dawn or Splatoon. Something that's a really big hit critically and commercially and gives them a lot of slack with sequels because fans are re-enthused by the new game.
I fully expected that too man. I almost saw it as a given that they would reveal the Scorpio and jump straight into a amazing looking Crackdown full of destruction and maybe some SP footage from the show floor. But the reveal trailer was one big let down and i'm still not convinced. The new footage definitely looks a whole lot letter, but i just can't deny being very disappointed. I imagined that destruction footage of a few years ago, how detailed that looked and expected the game to look very very impressing thanks to cloud and the power of Scorpio/X.
Ryse 2 had the potential to be something else. I definitely enjoyed the first one and to think it used to be a Kinect game. Yeah it's a goddamn shame. To this day Ryse looks amazing and i'd say can still be compared to a lot of recent games. MS desperately needs that studio that fully knows how to use the hardware and shit....Crytek sure knew. MS had a fantastic game with SO and i'll never understand that this didn't sell better. Maybe it was still in the time that there was a lot of negativitiy about Xbox One and the install base wasn't really too big yet.
And last but not least, totally ignoring the lack of new exclusives announcements, there are more problems. Why is Xbox still missing out on a lot of games? Third party, indie AND Japanese games. Hopefully X can bring a big change to this since from what we've read the X is incredibly dev friendly. Xbox One not nearly as dev friendly. I'm hoping to eventually see a day where Xbox gets most of those games as well, where we also get more Japanese games because i really want them and i know i am not the only one. Xbox cares, otherwise they wouldnt have gone to Japan and we for sure as hell wouldn't have had Monster Hunter World and probably not Code Vein either. For all of this time will tell.