Comparisons between Microsoft and Sony have been ongoing for as long as the companies and their consoles have been around.
Which is one the most powerful? Which one has the better graphics? Who has the most exclusive games? The list goes on. However head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, is particularly bothered about comparisons on that last one.
Speaking to GamesIndustry, Spencer said how he proud he is of this year’s E3 press conference.
“When I look at this year, I’ll just take the E3 conferences, we showed four big games launching exclusively on Xbox One and Windows 10,” he began. “When I think about Gears, Forza Horizon, ReCore, Dead Rising 4, all of those games are launching this year.”
“And I think on the indie side, we’ve got Inside which I’ve been playing. We’ve got We Happy Few. We’ve got Below. We’ve got Cuphead. There are a ton more, but I’m just thinking about some real highlights in indie games that are coming this year.”
Spencer then moved on to the other presentations and how, especially in Sony’s case,none of the release dates were this year. “When I watch the other platforms, it’s not always clear to me when the games are shipping or how many of them are shipping this year.”
That is not say that Xbox doesn’t at least have on next year, Spencer went on to say that Xbox’s slate for next year is looking busy with Scalebound, Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2, Crackdown 3, Halo Wars 2 and others. “I mean these are a pretty diverse set of games from a great set of developers. And to say that the other consoles are doing a better job shipping more games for their customer. I don’t see that.”
“And I see what the other first-party is doing – Uncharted was an amazing game. I think Naughty Dog did a great job. I’m sure Last Guardian, when it ships this year, will be great, but I just look at the lineup and the quantity and the quality that our team’s been shipping and I feel really good about that,” he concluded.
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