


Microsoft also argued this week that its launch line-up is one of the strongest for any console ever. Other changes have been made too - Kinect no longer has to be plugged in, a bone of contention that wasn't helped by Microsoft's involvement in PRISM, a headset is going into the box, and on Tuesday we learned that Europeans who pre-order get a free game: FIFA 14. Disc-based games are back, enabling a traditional second-hand market, while the console can also operate without the internet - at least once you download a day-one patch that tells it to do so. I felt Microsoft was pushing us towards those things not because it found compelling arguments in game design, but because it found compelling arguments on its corporate roadmap.Ī lot has changed in three months.

I appreciate the convenience of digital marketplaces and I play a lot of online games, but it was naive to expect people to swallow an always-online console with licence-only ownership without offering any tangible justification for making those changes. So if you have a computer running Windows 10 or 11, you're in luck.I guess it's no secret that I didn't like the original Xbox One pitch.

So if you like, let's list them all those Sony games for their PlayStation consoles which, for whatever reason, they have considered exclusive and could not be enjoyed until recently on other platforms than those of the Japanese. Sony keeps out its most direct competitor, such as Microsoft's or Nintendo's Xbox and its Switch -to a lesser extent-, but lets those names that have made it earn millions (and consolidate its PS2, PS3, PS4 or PS5 as the best-selling consoles) to reach computers all over the planet. It is what we commonly know as Sony exclusive games and that in recent times they have made the leap to the PC. Some exclusive that are not so much anymore
