Whatculture: With the news that Microsoft is going to unveil the Xbox 720 on May 21st, discussion over which company – Microsoft, Sony or even Nintendo – is going to win the console war has started to run rampant. We’ve already suggested why we think it’s possible that the PS4 could win the fight for next-gen supremacy, but given that we’ve yet to see anything from Microsoft yet, it seems a tad unfair to call the fight before the behemoths have all squared off. In just a few short weeks, we’ll have all the answers, when Microsoft lifts the curtain on their latest games console.
Still, it’s fun to play Devil’s Advocate and speculate on just why they’re going to blow Sony out of the water. Here are 10 reasons why Micoroft are destined to win the console war…
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Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.
Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.
Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.
Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.
"10. Their Main Competitor Has Failed (WiiU)"
Really? Nintendo is their main competitor? I coulda swore it was Sony...
And, The number #1 reason the article states is Kinect 2.0?!
Fail....
For those of you who don't like slides.
10- WiiU floundering
9-Microsofts Track record
8-Cheaper(Probably)
7-Superior Online
6-Good things come to those who wait
5-Blu-ray
4-Exclusive content (Timed exclusivity etc.)
3- More comfortable controller
2-Ease to develop
1-Kinect
The neutrals and the gamers that don't berate you(like 50% of this site) for having a different preference already won the war.
A man couldn't read after 360 "left PS3 in the dust" ages ago apparently. An author goes on to say how it managed to catch 360 last year in the next sentence. Need a man say more?