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Microsoft still has a good reputation?
MS reputation when it comes to gaming ain’t that bad. They scored some wins over the last two years with lots of decent titles available day 1 on GamePass while Sony is stuck doing remaster after remaster. Nintendo isn’t doing all that hot either reputation-wise. So maybe not great but the bar is set low.
Honestly it’s freaking weird how bad XSX is doing compared to PS5 - both are about the same performance-wise unlike previous generation, games are cheaper thanks to GP and there’s such an overabundance of games that lack of exclusives doesn’t hurt that much. I guess that’s just inertia from previous gen but even then Xbox is a budget conscious pick so you’d imagine they’d sell better.
Outside of Lemmy and certain circles, it certainly feels that Nintendo is doing fine. I can't say for sure but anecdotally I've hardly seen ant criticism of Nintendo whereas Sony and Microsoft get quite a lot of it. I know that may not really count for much but it's hard to get a proper gauge of these things.
They are constantly yo-yoing over making games or just providing cloud services, they’ve closed the only studio that made them a highly rated exclusive in recent years, released all decent exclusives to competitors, stopped the backwards compatibility program, increased GP pricing, stopped making physical games, haven’t done anything with any popular ip they’ve bought since early 2000s, pioneered paid multiplayer and ads on the dashboard, and I have a lot more complaints. And I’ve had both xbox one and series x, and they were fine as game systems, but I’m not getting the next thing they make.
Sony hasn’t been that much better, but at least they are actually making games, and these games are well made, even if we saw fewer releases this gen.
Steam Deck is the only sustainable option it seems, considering where the industry is these days.