• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Games Journalists love to accuse everyone of accusing them of having very strong anti-Xbox bias, but with articles where they are literally imagining a future without Xbox (despite Microsoft flat out stating they aren’t exiting the console industry) its really hard to believe they arent very anti-Xbox biased.

    Edit: Take this snippet for example:

    Microsoft head of gaming Phil Spencer last month revealed plans to release what would previously have been exclusively Xbox games for use on rival platforms, as part of a new focus on cloud-based gaming.

    This sentence is intentionally misleading by omitting the fact that these were only four games that are more than one year old. The sentence implies that there were many new games and that the purpose was because Xbox would be exiting the console market to be a cloud-gaming service.

    The purpose was NOT that at all. The purpose was to allow other platforms a taste of what Xbox has to offer its playerbase. A loss leader, in a gaming sense. They outright confirmed games like Indiana Jones and Starfield will remain Xbox console exclusives.