Microsoft, It’s Time To Go!

Microsoft, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, but I think it’s time to move on to another green pasture you can ruin, because you’re already ruining our gaming pasture. And I don’t mean people to be brought to harm. No, I mean take your sorry excuse for a gaming platform, and leave the industry. Sure, Xbox Live might be a cut above PSN, but what I tire of every time an Xbox fanboy talks, they are talking up Xbox live or halo. That’s it! Last time I checked I bought a gaming console to play games, not to play the operating system and then talk about it like it is a AAA title.

Why am I writing this article? It’s simple really. Microsoft has done nothing but express their utter greed to just acquire Sony’s exclusives. They don’t care about bringing multiple first party games because; well they don’t have any first party studios to speak of. No, they only care about taking franchises, and having them being made worse or near redundant just to have them on their glorified gaming platform.

Final Fantasy 13 was the pinnacle example of a game which would have been far greater had the developers not had to compensate for the lowest common denominator, aka the Xbox 360. See, back in the good old days, each platform got its ‘own’ version of a game. When Jurassic Park hit the SNES and Megadrive/Genesis, both games were made entirely different to appeal to the strengths of the hardware. But now it seems developers don’t want to do that. All they care about is the money they’ll get, or potentially get from putting their game, heavily dumb-downed might i add, onto the Xbox platform.

If Final Fantasy versus 13 goes multiplatform, I will wash my hands. The ps3 is far above and beyond in its hardware capabilities, with a never ending stream of exclusives besting the one that came before it. Quality and time go hand in hand with a ps3 exclusive, but not with Microsoft. Alan wake, perfect example of a game which could have sold far better, been done in its original form aka: the open world game it was first touted, if it was utilising blu-ray, a hard drive and the cell.

So what we have this generation, is everyone trying to suck up to Microsoft, and by far this has been the worst generation I’ve ever experienced of game developers sacrificing so much just so they can make those few extra dollars. Imagine the scope of Grand Theft Auto 4 or Red Dead Redemption on a blu-ray disc. It would still have sold millions but people seem to think that Microsoft with all their billions will save them financially. Funny how Microsoft couldn’t even acquire Bungie, the flagship developer for their cash cow of a game Halo, as a first party.

People say the companies don’t care, but right now, when I look at quality, Sony care far greater in delivering gaming experiences versus Microsoft which just shovel out mediocre games to appeal to the teenagers who love halo. And might I add Halo emotional depth I’d say is on par with The Days Of Our Lives.

No, Microsoft, you might have done a pretty neat job with a console operating system, but that is all you do on a positive level. I will continue to buy games, on a gaming platform. i will continue to go where the quality is, where I’m not being charged additional fees where the rest of the world enjoy those applications for free. No, Microsoft, I believe with your price hike you should outfit a very beautiful looking coffin.

It is interesting to note, that Sony doesn’t hold back Nintendo or Microsoft with their hardware or business practices. Funny that. Microsoft, leave gaming to the true experts; Sony and Nintendo.