Xbox executives are living in an alternate reality or somebody within their office is generating a reality distortion field somehow that prevents them from seeing the actual reality. There is no helping Xbox if its executives truly believe what Aaron said. Lol

If we keep feeding Aaron sandwiches, like continuously non stop, he won't be able to babble. #SendAaronSandwiches

@all the above

It's easy, Aaron works for MS, he uses the Bing search engine, they've filtered out all the Sony exclusives so Aaron can't find any....

They should have had Scalebound but we all know what happened there

@Thatguy-310,

It's more like those titles have become worn out, they've climaxed and Microsoft can't squeeze much more out of them without being very creative or rebooting them (and that comes with their own issues).

They need new blood.

Hey guys, look! Deep-throat is back to help everyone... relieve some stress... if you know what I mean. He is really good at it and that is why he is known as deep-throat. Lineup everybody and wait for your turn. LOL!

On a serious note, that is just your opinion... and is completely wrong. Nintendo and Sony both have some of the highest rated and best selling franchises in the industry. Whereas, Xbox has had some of the lowest rated and worst selling exclusives this generation. Nobody in their right mind would call Sony and Nintendo exclusives mediocre.

So you're not biased? Ha seriously you might want learn what that word means

Shin
"Lineup everybody and wait for your turn. LOL!"

Is that what ms means when they talk about their exclusive lineup?😬

That's how they kept so many HARDCORE fans loyal

Ahahahaa im tearing up.

hes right, other then uncharted, horizon and maybe one other game it not like sony is swimming in big hit
exclusives so far

The Last of Us. God of War. Horizon Zero Dawn. Days Gone. Detroit: Become Human. Spider-Man. Yakuza.

Halo. Halo. Halo. Halo. Halo. Forza. Forza. Forza. Forza. Forza. Forza. Forza.

I don't think I can say enough how deluded Xbots are. You guys have an altered perception of reality whilst living in a completely different realm. It's incredible.

Calling someone bias that's rich coming from you lol. See facts are on his side because they actually do show Sony and Nintendo have the best exclusives what with sales,reviews and the majority opinion helping to prove it. I own an Xbox also and I'm constantly getting on ms for being stale and not producing games but see that's the difference between a fan like me and a fanboy like you I'll call them out while you'll cover your eyes and ears pretending everything is ok. Grow a backbone ms doesn't care about you so you should quit defending them so hard and get on them to improve

look at zelda, it single handedly sold the Switch. Or do you think people bought the switch at launch for 1-2 switch?
THAT IS THE BIGGEST EXCLUSIVE. Mario Odessey, pokemon, monster hunter, those are all system sellers. God of War, Uncharted, The last of us 2, those are system sellers. Crackdown sure the hell isn't, nor is super lucky tails. Halo and Gears have both lost a lot of favor with fans and seem to be going the wayside like Socom, but unlike Microsoft Sony doesn't keep beating the same dead horse and moves on, we have seen that lately with the games Horizon and Last of us, and will see it again when Sucker Punches new IP gets revealed in December.

@bolimekurac @Deep-throat

You two are the worst and I'm sure you know it.

Sony and Nintendo have the most exclusives, most of which end up being highly acclaimed, if you seriously think they're not swimming in high quality titles, then Microsoft must have s**t-tier number of titles and acclaim. If your going to your opinion so matter of factly, then please back it up with numbers and links (e.g. a list of current and future exclusives titles and their mediacritic scores where applicable).

It's sad when the Switch has pretty much only just come out and it's already out-performing Xone's titles in amount and quality.

You two should be hounding Microsoft to treat customers like yourselves better, smh.

LOL.

Sony and Nintendo exclusives are mostly mediocre....HAHAHHA. Ok dude.

Username checks out. You truly are choking on something...perhaps it is Aaron Greenberg.

damn bro...I cant even...

'You are biased bro'
Comment of the day haha

Also 'x game is mediocre' seems typical on the internet for some gamers to say 'me dont like' except usually they say 'medicore'

I get the sense that no one agreed

What a desperate comment. Hang in there buddy Microsoft will turn things around in the future

***Sony needs to invest in their own intellectual property because quite frankly without gaming where is Sony at this point? Microsoft on the other hand see Xbox as a supportive device, so their direction is different. I am not giving them a free pass on game investment because I agree they need to do a lot more but each company is at a different place.***

That's a really round about way to say Microsoft needs to invest in exclusives. I'm not sure mentioning that gaming is a side item for Microsoft is a winning argument to the consumer market either.

Oh moldy just *sigh* your clueless Sony trims the fat becomes profitable once again but their future is dubious? Please explain? MS has been trying for the better part of two decades to take over the video game industry and has failed. Even tho MS has a lot of resources they do not use them on the xbox brand in fact some within MS have wanted to drop xbox brand because it's not as profitable so again your blind sided way of thinking is wrong.

See people, this is the result of what ms does to it's fans. They have to spin so hard to somehow group, downplay or level things.

They are forced to lie and use slight of hand

Being honest is out of the question. Ms do not have the biggest exclusives. They don't even have a comparable amount. I'll let the fact all of their exclusives come with a * slide. Despite this, even using Windows 10 as a crux they still don't have a comparable amount. . How many new Ip's? How many game of the year awards. . . . . .

This guy is in every cross game article chastising Sony yet uses less than a fraction of that energy questioning why they get so little from his preferred brand. Not an attack, just an observation and he's not the only one either.

We don't need to hear about what's happening at Sony hq. I'm not an investor, don't own shares and I know I'm just a customer to them. . Did they jump or were they pushed isn't even relevant. They produce more for their core and their core is more varied in theirs tastes. To me, that's gamer friendly.

So, basically, since MS is just using Xbox for other means, their short sighted approach to building the Xbox brand is OK, because the company as a whole will continue on, whereas Sony, may for some reason go out of business despite doing everything necessary to bring themselves back into the black, with the PS as a major part of that happening.

Sony's not going anywhere anytime soon. They've righted the ship, and will continue to do it as long as they need to. They did what they have to.

but on MS side, if the software isn't important to them, and the console fails to actually achieve whatever MS intends for it to achieve, then MS could just drop the Xbox brand and go some other route.

I'm sorry, but in all this, MS is much more likely to leave the console market before Sony is, and since MS investors tend to not see Xbox as a major tenant of their business, there is less impetus for them to care either way. It's much more likely they'd drop the Xbox brand if it doesn't profit enough, so even if it's returning a profit, the investors could very well want that money invested in more profitable ventures if they don't see results from MS approach to gaming.

Everything you're saying is moot to the discussion at hand, and even to the original posters comments.

On top of that, you say you have to look at the companies as a whole, which I suppose you do, but you fail in every way in actually applying what you glean from that look to actual real world scenarios and potential outcomes, and instead twist some random stuff around to form an argument based on an agenda.

In any case, Sony is investing in their own IP's, and they are getting praised for it. MS isn't, and they're receiving heavy criticsm. I don't care the reasons a company does something, because if all they can do to survive is give us products we want, then so be it. MS not needing to do anything doesn't mean their products appeal to me. I'll buy the products from either company if they invest in making products I want, which is the real impetus for any company to make a product which will hopefully profit.

If MS wants to achieve more with the Xbox, then they should invest in their own IP's. Its not rocket science.

zero upvotes....zero...upvotes..... .........just let that sink in........

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@Christopher
"That's a really round about way to say Microsoft needs to invest in exclusives."

Which I already highlighted. They still do a lot more than Valve who tried to sell people the Steam machine but console gamers seem to be more vicious and put a lot more stock into exclusives.

"I'm not sure mentioning that gaming is a side item for Microsoft is a winning argument to the consumer market either."

It's not trying to win the argument, its to put things into perspective. Microsoft is not going to win the console war against Sony, probably not ever. They just don't have that worldwide appeal and they seem to be tailoring back in investment. What they are doing with Minecraft kind of explains their direction moving forward.

On the contrary Sony is trying everything they can to hold onto what they have while trying to gobble up intellectual properties. We seen it even in the indie scene with the Pub fund where they require some sort of exclusive deal. Quite the opposite of the direction Valve takes who wants to be as open as possible; Even in VR they want it to be open. Sony wants to control everything because like I said, without gaming what do they really have left to fall back on? Valve sees their value through the service they provide (and it's FREE), Sony thinks locking gamers out unless they buy their hardware is the answer while they leverage that power with third party because even they know it takes more than just exclusives.

Microsoft can utilize Windows and some console fans think that's a bad idea, as though now they are no longer exclusive so whats the point of the Xbox. Totally missing the bigger picture all because they just want to focus on exclusives, advocating that without them consoles hold no value. Valve is already proving they can provide what gamers want, without holding them hostage and without charging them a dime outside of the software prices. How many games per year does Valve make?

Well besides the movie and the t.v division Sony is profitable. PlayStation is their biggest money maker but they've really turned the whole company around which is why they've been back in black the last few years and profitable maybe you might want to quit living in the past and join everyone in the present.

@moldybread is correct people. Down vote all you want. That just shows how biased and closed minded the people are.

MS is actually fine. They can recover in the future and probably will. The market need competition.
PC will be fine.
Playstation will be fine.
But he is right about Sony, their most successful product is Playstation. "Sony itself can close and playstation can survive all by itself". WTF are you saying?
Sony would never close and just run on the Playstation brand, it would still be called Sony Playstation. People obviously don't know business. They could shut down every other product they manufacture and focus on gaming but that doesn't mean it would succeed and I doubt that would ever happen. MS or Apple would just buy them out them out if they were in dire straights.

Sony isn't doing better than Nintendo when it comes to profit. You people think in short term.
Don't talk about numbers and then not know what the true numbers are.
You seem to think Playstation is outselling Nintendo, when you neglect the Nintendo Handheld division. Which has had the largest numbers in the past 15 years or more.

I am a gaming fan, but not an ignorant one. The truth is, Sony and Nintendo are fine. Not going anywhere anytime soon.

@why o why
"See people, this is the result of what ms does to it's fans. They have to spin so hard to somehow group, downplay or level things.

They are forced to lie and use slight of hand "

It is pretty bad now. I've seen xbox "fans" just in the past couple months just on this site defend micro transactions, tricked themselves into thinking that giving up tons of exclusives games is ok because multiplats sell more, knock single player games as one and done simply because xbox doesn't have any stand out SP games... I mean stuff like that doesn't tell me you're a fan of xbox, that tells me that you're a fanboy of xbox. they just want xbox to be viewed in a positive light no matter what they say. The true xbox fans actually see these issues and want to correct them instead of blindly defend them.

Uken, you obviously dont read properly, not what i ment at all, i dont think sony is going anywhere but the overall health of sony does not effect playstation, its a spin off company my friend, that was my point, and again i said one of the most consistant in gaming, which they are lol, nintendos success comes from its handhelds, go look at their numbers lol, the wii is their only home console to break 100 mill, most didnt even get to 60 mill sold, Every sony home console has hit 60 mill......

Sony's fiuture is questionable ? Yea ok, they've only been around since the 1940's.