They need big MP games like Halo and Gears, and long-running games like Minecraft, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded.
There are not big multiplayer games. Gears is not a console seller, it's done. It's dead. It was dead about a month after launch and I've played it just about every day since launch. Even Halo isn't a system seller anymore, I saw the figures on twitter a week or so back compared to other big shooters and they are small in comparison to shooters out there. Miles bigger than gears (but then Call of Juarez 2 online was bigger than Gears) but nothing to write home about.
This is the thing with the titles they have secured for gamepass, for me it's just remakes and sequels. I don't care about the back catalogue for COD etc etc I'm never going to play them. Where as back when the 360 launched all I looked forward to each month was the next new game coming. New titles, new IP. Halo and Gears have been done to death. The user base shows on a single platform why that model cannot succeed anymore. Especially not on a console that's again losing the generation.
I guess I'm alone but I'd much rather they stuck gamepass where the sun doesn't shine and have a 360 situation where there were 50 potential great games coming down the pipeline than OMG we have the COD back catalogue. There were so many great games on the 360 not once did I ever think about playing something from the OG xbox.
I agree Sony do the single titles well. I want Xbox to get back to some of that, not buy a studio for more of the same or offer me two gen old stuff at 60FPS. The Xbox 360 was about the worst piece of hardware every made, yet it was the best console I ever owned because of the games. We tolerated that RROD junk because of the titles.
Where's the new Halo, Gear, Fortnite, Minecraft? I rarely see any excitement anymore of something coming
I have a PS5 primarily but thought it would be handy to play through any Xbox exclusives/make use of Game Pass. My last Xbox was the 360!
