Instead, it packed the first half of 2017 with a seemingly endless string of exclusives, from Horizon Zero Dawn to Persona 5 to Nier: Automata to Nioh to Gravity Rush 2 – the list goes on.Īll Sony really had to do at E3 2017 was stay the course. Having sold more than 60 million PlayStation 4 consoles since launch (which is roughly double the number of Xbox One consoles that have been sold in the same time period), Sony could have rested on its laurels. Microsoft also surprised everyone by revealing that original Xbox games would be joining the backward compatibility program before the end of 2017.įor the first time in a long time, Sony and Nintendo are in somewhat similar situations (for very different reasons). Who exactly is going to spend $500 on an Xbox One X when they can pick up an Xbox One S for half the price? I can’t answer that question, and though Xbox head Phil Spencer did an admirable job when asked by Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb, I didn’t think he did a great job of answering it either.īeyond the Xbox One X, the outlook was a bit brighter, with a solid slate of exclusive games on deck for later this year and next, including Forza Motorsport 7, Crackdown 3, Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2 and Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
The 4K-capable home console is more powerful than anything else on the market, and will almost certainly retain that title for the next half-decade or so, but as I discussed in another piece, there doesn’t appear to be a market for it. The Xbox One X took center stage during Microsoft’s E3 briefing this year. From my point of view, Microsoft didn’t do enough for the Xbox brand at E3 this year.
Not only did the company have a new console to reveal, but it needed to explain to its fans why the lineup of exclusive games have all but dried up this year. No one had more to prove at E3 2017 than Microsoft.
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