Yer I felt the same way. I really was pulling for xbox a few months ago then the bullshit started from the usual suspects.
Sometimes it's so fucking hard to stay positive about xbox with all the bullshit they spin, Phil, eastwood, dealer etc, they really do try there best to make me want to hate their brand.
i just don't know anymore, i want to say something awful but the people it would be directed at simply don't care and my comments will end up hurting the normal peeps, fans.
Sigh
Yeah even though I was a kid I remember the nintendo/sega war and it was awesome from a game perspective.
I was more on the Nintendo side but then the dreamcast came out and it was awesome, then I went back to Nintendo with the gamecube and the wii there were great games everywhere, competition even Xbox was great back in those days I spent so much time playing Halo 1 and 2 with me friends.
Now none of them care about Halo anymore nor Xbox and some of the most hardocre Xbox fans of my friends gave up.It didn't help that MS basically didn't care about Europe and it showed.
I want them to put out great games and I hope there will be (especially Hellblade2) and there also on Pc strategy is the best way they wouldn't get my money otherwise but they need to put out games to get my money.
I know I'll stay PC/Ps5 next gen even if sony didn't show the best that they could do, simply because they've been consistently great at putting out great games.But now I have no idea what game I'll buy on pc that come from Xbox.
And good games no matter their exclusivity even if they were xbox only and not PC would always be good for the industry, it pushes the medium to be more accepted, it pushes other dev to do better.
I had an xbox and a ps2 at the time and loved them both, I didn't jump on the 360 or ps3 because I couldn't afford any of them and when I could ps3 was blasting games over games so I skipped the 360 but I feel it was a great console too.
That I can't say it about the Xbox one and by the look of it the XSX doesn't look that good either for now.
I hope they will turn things around put out great games, it won't make me buy their console but it will make me buy their games.
I can be snarky about some diehard fanboy because honestly it's fun I can be exasperate at some fanboys too, but I don't wish bad things to Xbox I want them to make something really good, I want them to make games I want to play.
And most of all I want them to push Sony to their limits I want them to force eachother to do better.But I don't really think Phil Spencer is the right guy for that.He may be good negociating with studios with his 'I'd sell my wife if I could and will say anything to make you buy", but he's not made to handle Xbox.