Everybody WANTS PS5. There is almost a sense of “making do” with the Xbox, like even if you get an Xbox, you still want a PS5. But if you have a PS5, you don’t really want an Xbox much.

I am a PC + Nintendo kinda guy so I have no dog in this particular console war but this is my observation of the tone of this console generation. Microsoft seriously needs to start investing even more into some 1st party games development if they ever want any chance to make the Sony console feel like “that other thing”, which their current generation pushes could even possibly have done if it was actually backed up by some serious heavy hitter megatonne blockbuster titles. You know, like the more successful consoles?

Maybe the next Halo can just be a classic awesome Halo game that has a bunch of working features and shit and there are also other actually excellent, premium games to play on their console.

1. Xbox has no zero blockbusters (they butchered Halo, for crying out loud)
2. Microsoft does zero marketing or advertising of Xbox to anyone outside North America and the U.K.
3. Microsoft doesn’t support the smaller regional languages that Sony does.