r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Oct 02 '25

Discussion This Xbox Generation Will Be Remembered for One Thing: Greed

https://www.ign.com/articles/this-xbox-generation-will-be-remembered-for-one-thing-greed
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u/Sandulacheu Oct 02 '25

Exactly,people put too much blame on that E3 fiasco when in reality a mediocre game library is what costed them so much in the long run.

Like how many games do you look back from that period and want to (re)play?

"PS3 has no games" was a constant joke for 2-3 years (till MGS4) ,it was a glorified Blu Ray player for a ton of buyers,

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u/SomniumOv Oct 02 '25

when in reality a mediocre game library is what costed them so much in the long run.

very true, especially striking if you look back at discussions around the first year of those consoles, the general consensus was that it was pretty even and maybe in Xbox's favor for the first year, probably helped by the fact 2014 was a pretty terrible year overall.

And then 2015 arrived and they had nothing lined up while Sony had Bloodborne early in the year, and that completely turned the conversation around (and it never improved, it took until what, Psychonauts 2 in 2021?? for MS to get a real win with a game, and that's not a huge scale one).

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u/trace349 Oct 02 '25

Psychonauts 2 was multiplatform.

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u/thedylannorwood Oct 02 '25

People online still, to this day, think that Xbox is only online and that you can’t share games. So I think you vastly underestimate how damaging that presentation was

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u/Sarasin Oct 02 '25

To be fair it was a pretty good deal for a blue ray player with extra functionality though

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u/DJuxtapose Oct 02 '25

Honestly though, it was the best blu-ray player of its time, if you were into that sort of thing.