PlayStation Is Still A Hit Machine While Xbox Hasn’t Even Started Catching Up

God of War Ragnarok accomplished the impossible. It’s arrived and matched the astronomically high scores of God of War 2018, a 94 on Metacritic, rarified air in the video game space, where only a few series have ever reached.

This is the latest in a long line of first party exclusive PlayStation games. The list is just…massive. The Uncharted series. The Last of Us Parts 1 and 2. Horizon Zero Dawn, Forbidden West. Spider-Man. Ghost of Tsushima. Bloodborne. Two God of War games are now available, which have been well-reviewed for their quality in the past two generations.

Microsoft’s Xbox, which excelling in the subscription value space with Xbox Game Pass, still has yet to not just match this, but really even Start They are trying to match it. They went an entire generation without many meaningful exclusive titles, and I’d argue none on the level of Sony’s offerings. Forza titles are the best Xbox exclusives across both generations, and that is heavily dependent on fans liking the racing genre.

Microsoft recognized that this was a problem and began buying studios all over the country to create hits such as Sony. This isn’t a joke. Microsoft has repeatedly stated that they realize that Xbox is flawed and are making efforts to fix it.

The problem is that this is…not going very well so far.

Again, Microsoft’s “best” exclusive this generation so far is likely another Forza game, and what was supposed to be a massive flagship exclusive, Halo Infinite, has underwhelmed and underperformed, calling into question to overall future of the franchise as it struggles to fix what ails it a year later, still.

Now, we are two years into the next console generation. Sony has just released another Game of the Generation competitor, and remastered many of their biggest hits from the previous generation. But most Xbox exclusives have come and gone without much fanfare, if not outright controversy in Halo Infinite’s case.

In this current scenario, it’s hard to understate just how much pressure there is on Starfield to perform here, Bethesda’s new space RPG that could finally be an Xbox exclusive entry to be in the same league as a half dozen of Sony’s megahits. This seems possible, provided that it performs similarly to previous mainline Fallout or Elder Scrolls games. The new Elder Scrolls title is expected to arrive later.

However, you can see that the problem is there. This has been a long-standing process. Incredibly slow, and we’re likely to get through almost another half generation before Microsoft starts putting points on the board. Insomniac is bringing Sony Spider-Man and Wolverine games, while Naughty Dog, Sony Santa Monica, and Sony Santa Monica are certain to be big hits. I’m less certain about the performance of upcoming Microsoft projects like Perfect Dark or Fable.

This is not some blistering critique, I’m actually saying what Phil Spencer himself has been saying about this, and he too, like everyone, is waiting for Starfield to come and at least Start Perhaps it will change the story.

Microsoft is still a long way behind, however.

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