Shoot and a miss Ms. Bond. Exclusive games drive console sales. I just picked up a switch 2 instead of an xbox because of the exclusives. Ms. Bond brought up the most popular games on Earth as if they represent everybody. What if I said Buddhism and Christianity are the driving forces of spirituality? Those religions don’t represent everybody and Minecraft and Call of Duty as far as I’m concerned primarily represent creatives who enjoy a lack of structure or cracked out 12-year-olds who love belligerent, hyper unrealistic competitiveness respectively. The face of the company directly equates to the heroes that the console brings to life. The face of Playstation today is basically AstroBot, Kratos, Spiderman, Ellie, Ratchet and Clank, Nathan Drake etc. The face of Nintendo is Mario, Link, Zelda, Kirby, Samus, Pikachu, Yoshi, Bowswer, Donkey Kong etc.
What is the face of Xbox? Halo died in 2015 as far as I’m concerned with 7,000 hours of halo experience under my belt. Halo’s health is evident by how sterile, boring and idle Halo Infinite’s box art is. It’s the most docile, impotent and tame Chief ever witnessed on a main entry Halo title installation. No wonder Halo’s longstanding art director Glenn Israel just bounced on poor terms with Microsoft. Halo Infinite’s art direction was openly admitted to be directionless as a smorgasbord of all previous halo titles which is artistic sacrilege. Gears of War 5 was so woke I basically bled from the eyes. At this point I’m grasping at straws. Horizon games have no protagonist, they’re cars. Bottom of the barrel here guys and oh look who I found it’s Doomguy who at least has started to show his face which is actually good thing. Besides Doomguy I’m only really left with Joanna Dark who basically died recently with the Initiative’s startling fate and in my dreams characters like Blinx.
Microsoft is just showing is true colors here as a for profit company that to their credit offers excellent customer support, accessibility, services as well as innovativeness, but is disinterested in reaching the heights of Sony or Nintendo due to a refusal to grow their IP protagonists at a healthy pace.
