The Xbox One is struggling because video game exclusives still matter. Where have all the Xbox One games gone? Photo: Horizon Zero Dawn. We’re three months into 2017 and it’s already unusually crowded with great exclusive video games. The PlayStation 4 is on a hot streak. Nioh , Yakuza 0 , Gravity Rush 2 , Horizon Zero Dawn, and Nier Automata have already landed to largely positive reviews. In the coming months, the console will also get, MLB 17: The Show , and Persona 5, along with a grab bag of big-name indie titles, including Nex Machina , Nidhogg 2 , and Pyre . And Nintendo has The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , arguably one of the best launch titles of all time. There have never been more third-party releases, and many of the best-selling games appear on multiple platforms. And yet in 2017, exclusives seem as significant to a hardware’s success as ever before. Take Nintendo, for instance. Nintendo hasn’t exactly been great at making sure the latest mainstream titles are available for its consoles (something that will hopefully change with the Switch). But Nintendo stays afloat because while it lacks the option to play Call of Duty or the latest sports titles, it has a strong catalog of exclusive titles and continues to release excellent new entries. It’s a strategy the company is already leaning into with its latest hardware, the Nintendo Switch, which has had a great launch carried almost single-handedly by the stellar The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While sales haven’t officially been reported, research firm SuperData estimates that 89 percent of Switch owners have bought Link’s latest open-world adventure, to the tune of 1.34 million copies. Perhaps the most revealing example of the power of exclusives is Microsoft’s Xbox One, the console that’s struggled to find its niche with first-party games. While Sony has recently offered a variety of games in a short window of time, and Nintendo has, well, Zelda , Microsoft hasn’t quite found its footing. Instead, Microsoft has dealt with underperforming new entries in popular franchises, false starts to new properties, and a number of high-profile cancellations. And this isn’t a case of critical darlings failing to find an audience. The top 50 Xbox One games on Metacritic contains few exclusives: two Forza games ( Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Motorsport 6 ), the original Titanfall , Ori and the Blind Forest , and a pair of legacy remake collections: Halo: The Master Chief collection, and the Rare Replay collection. Highly hyped Microsoft exclusives like ReCore , Quantum Break , and Halo Wars 2 have been released to semi-positive reviews, but the company has been mum on sales. The few critically lauded Xbox One exclusives, like Halo 5: Guardians or Sunset Overdrive, have quickly faded from the spotlight. Worse, some of Xbox’s biggest franchises have struggled to match the sales of previous entries. The Xbox One’s exclusive lineup has also suffered delays, setbacks, and closures. Quantum Break saw numerous delays before its release, and Crackdown , announced years ago, won't hit until later this year at the earliest. Scalebound , Fable Legends , and Ion were outright canceled, and Project Spark was shut down. And even Microsoft’s big-name indie titles Below and Cuphead have experienced delays. Exclusives aren’t everything. Nintendo's inability to get mainstream third-party releases on its hardware has made its wares into a secondary console for many customers — hardware people buy after they purchase a console that runs Madden and Grand Theft Auto . Where does that leave Microsoft in the current living room landscape? Without unique games, the Xbox One is a slightly less powerful, definitely less popular PlayStation 4. What’s strange about the Xbox One’s troubles is how it’s being bested by a playbook it wrote. The Xbox 360 basically pioneered indie publishing for consoles with the Xbox Live Indie Games program and Summer of Arcade. But Sony and Nintendo have since welcomed indie developers with open arms (and sometimes open wallets). In recent years, major indie releases hit PS4 first, while Microsoft's baffling parity clause — which required that any games that released for other platforms had to launch on the Xbox One at the same time, or not at all — drove away a number of developers. Microsoft is finally softening its stance on that issue, which is why Xbox owners can finally play Rocket League and Shovel Knight months after the hype. Microsoft made the Xbox 360 the go-to place for fans of popular first-person shooters and AAA blockbusters, securing DLC timed exclusivity for Grand Theft Auto IV and the Call of Duty series. But now, Sony has the timed exclusivity not just for Call of Duty , but the massively popular Destiny . This is where it would be nice for the story to pivot, but things just aren’t that sunny for Microsoft. In addition to the onslaught of big titles that just got released as PS4 exclusives, the company has also announced Uncharted: The Lost Legacy , The Last of Us Part II, the upcoming God of War sequel, Insomniac's Spider-Man game, Kojima’s Metal Gear follow-up Death Stranding , and Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Remake , all of which will only be available on Sony's console. Nintendo obviously has Fire Emblem and a massive Mario game on its slate, but at least is trying to attract more widespread games — who’d have thought that a Nintendo-built console would ever run Skyrim ? But Microsoft has surprisingly few announced big-name exclusives: Crackdown 3 , Sea of Thieves , and State of Decay 2 , and a pair of indies in Below and Cuphead . Of course, it is possible Microsoft is just operating in a stealth mode until it can use E3 and Scorpio as a chance to reboot? Sure. Xbox head Phil Spencer commented in a recent blog post that Microsoft is “committed to delivering even more exclusive games for both Xbox One and Windows 10 this year than we launched in 2016.” But then the question becomes whether Microsoft can really announce a slate of exclusives at E3 that will be ready for the Scorpio launch in the fall? There’s also the looming possibility that Microsoft will make the exact same mistake as it did with the original Xbox One launch. Then, Microsoft made the poor decision of focusing too much on the hardware, emphasizing Kinect and the pass-through HDMI port largely saving game announcements for a future presentation. The worst-case scenario for the Project Scorpio announcement reveal would be a continued focus on the superior hardware, once again ignoring the importance of actually having great games to play on it . Or perhaps Microsoft believes raw power is its best play. It’s possible that Scorpio could see Microsoft taking a page from PC gaming’s playbook — focusing less on exclusive titles, and more on offering a powerful platform that will run third-party games better than any other console. Project Scorpio could be an interesting middle ground between the offering the convenience of console gaming with the incredible graphics and experience offered by a traditional gaming PC. We’re already even seeing crossover between PC and Xbox gaming through the Xbox Play Anywhere program, which offers cross-compatible titles. Project Scorpio could be the next step in bridging that divide, with less of a focus on exclusive titles and more on offering the best gaming experience possible in your living room for the wealth of games that are available on all platforms. In this case, Microsoft would have a new take on the idea of exclusivity: it might not have the most or best exclusives, but with Scorpio and crossplay, it could become the best place to play everything else. And considering most of the best-selling games each year are third party, it’s perhaps not the worst strategy. Look, console exclusives suck. They split up the player base, force developers to pick sides, and bring endless amounts of dumb, pointless feuding to the gaming community. Imagine how much longer the original Titanfall could have lasted with a console customer base that was twice as large. When Battlefield or Destiny content gets arbitrarily locked to whichever console paid Activision of EA the most money that year, it’s players who suffer. But for better or for worse the console exclusives are still crucial to a successful console in today’s day and age. It’s the reason that, as of January, the PS4 was still outselling the Xbox One by nearly twice as much. It’s the reason that Nintendo is able to bank on Zelda for driving early Switch adoption. In an ideal world, you’d be able to buy just a single device based on its own merits and get the games you’d like for it rather than having to drop almost a grand on hardware just to be able to play all of the great games. But unfortunately, we’re not there yet. And so for Microsoft, Project Scorpio may be an opportunity: if it can’t win the game of exclusive software, why not make exclusivity about hardware instead? Next Up In Gaming. Now Trending. Command Line. Command Line delivers daily updates from the near-future. Xbox One Console-Exclusives Confirmed for 2017. These are all the console-exclusive games coming to Xbox One this year. Created by Matt Espineli and Kallie Plagge on March 16, 2017. With games like Sea of Thieves, Halo Wars 2, and Crackdown 3, we've got quite the year ahead of us on Xbox One. Click ahead to check out all the Xbox One console exclusives confirmed for 2017. Check back often as we update this gallery with more games and release dates as they're confirmed. Pit People. Pit People is an action-RPG developed by indie game developer The Behemoth, the studio behind Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid. It's currently in Early Access. Rise & Shine. Rise & Shine combines elements of bullet hell shooters and puzzle platformers in a world filled with video game references. Developer: Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team | Release Date: January 13 | Watch the Trailer. Fallout Shelter. Fallout Shelter is a free-to-play management simulator where you build and cultivate life in a Vault. Developer: Bethesda Game Studios and Behaviour Interactive | Release Date: February 7. Halo Wars 2. Halo Wars 2 is a real-time strategy sequel to 2009’s Halo Wars that follows Captain Cutter and his crew as they face a strong enemy Brute faction called The Banished. Developer: 343 Industries/Creative Assembly | Release Date: February 21 | Watch the Trailer. Narcosis is a survival horror game set in the hostile depths of the Pacific Ocean. Developer: Honor Code, Inc | Release Date: March 28. Voodoo Vince Remastered. Voodoo Vince Remastered is an HD version of an Xbox platformer that was originally released in 2003. Phantom Dust. A re-release of 2005 action strategy game Phantom Dust is coming to Xbox One, complete with Play Anywhere compatibility. Gigantic is a free-to-play multiplayer hero shooter where a team of four must battle against an opposing team to defeat their massive guardian. But at the same time, that team must protect their own guardian--lest they want to risk being defeated. Fable Fortune. With the success of Hearthstone looming large and card games based on The Elder Scrolls and The Witcher franchises launching soon, it only makes sense that the Fable series would explore the genre as well. Expanding on the lore and characters of the quirky RPG series, Fable Fortune looks like it will have a very different visual take on card-battling. Developer: Mediatonic, Flaming Fowl Studios | Release Date: July 25. Gone Home developer Fullbright’s next game is Tacoma, a mystery game set in space. Path of Exile. Path of Exile is a free-to-play online action-RPG similar to Diablo and Torchlight. Developer: Grinding Gear Games | Release Date: August 24. Everspace is a space shooter that combines roguelike elements with the intense action of spaceship dogfights. Developer: Rockfish Games | Release Date: September 24. Platformer Cuphead pairs run-and-gun gameplay with a distinct 1930s cartoon art style and plenty of boss battles. Forza Motorsport 7. Forza Motorsport 7 is the latest entry in the long running car simulation series. This time around there are more than 700 cars in the game, as well as new tracks and weather systems. Developer: Turn 10 Studios | Release Date: October 3. Deadbeat Heroes. Deadbeat Heroes is a 3D brawler where you dodge bullets, steal super powers, and defeats waves of enemies. Developer: Deadbeat Productions | Release Date: October 10. Disneyland Adventures Remastered. Disneyland Adventures Remastered is a re-release of the Xbox 360 original from 2011. In addition to Kinect motion controls, the game also includes the ability to play with traditional controls using an Xbox One controller. Developer: Asobo Studio | Release Date: October 31. Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure Remastered. Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure Remastered is a re-release of the Xbox 360 original from 2012. In addition to Kinect motion controls, the game also includes the ability to play with traditional controls using an Xbox One controller. Developer: Asobo Studio | Release Date: October 31. Hello Neighbor. Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game where you sneak into your neighbor's house and try to uncover the dark secrets inside. Developer: Dynamic Pixels | Release Date: December 8. PS4 Games vs Xbox One Games. This page contains information on the different console games exclusive to either PS4 or Xbox One. This list shows every known game available to one of the consoles (as well as the PC) but not to the other. EditPS4 Vs Xbox One Exclusive Games Chart. Any Game colored in Green or Blue is specifically a console exclusive and not availble on PC or iOS devices. This is a comparison of titles currently known for both consoles, and only for those that have been confirmed for release and on specific platforms (Japan only games will not be listed). EditPs4 Exclusive Games. 100ft Robot Golf Ace Combat 7 Act It Out! 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Xbox one 2017 exclusives

Photo: Wikimedia/Megamex2001 The Xbox One S, June 2016. Microsoft's Xbox One console has a lot of stuff going on at the start of 2017 with many additions to its Xbox One Backwards Compatibility program. And now, the company does not disappoint fans with its most recent announcement that there will be more Xbox One-exclusive games this year compared to 2016. Xbox chief Phil Spencer announced through the Xbox blog that there is more reason for fans to celebrate as a good and better lineup of games is being prepared for the Xbox One this year. Fans have already received the first one, "Halo Wars 2," which was released Feb. 21. As Spencer said in his post: "With such a broad and varied roster of games and first party exclusives on the horizon, continuous improvements across Xbox Live, and the upcoming launch of Project Scorpio, 2017 is going to be an incredible year for Xbox One and Windows 10 gamers." He added a thank you note for the fans' unwavering passion and support. Other confirmed games that are coming to Xbox One exclusively are action adventure games "Crackdown 3," "Sea of Thieves" and "State of Decay 2." Spencer adds that "Sea of Thieves" will take on a more community-immersed approach as it will let prospective players take part in the game's development. In addition, Xbox classics such as "Phantom Dust" and a remastered version of "Voodoo Vince" are confirmed to make a comeback for Xbox One and Microsoft Windows 10 as a play-anywhere-title. This means players can access the game in either device without losing progress. Furthermore, Spencer confirms that there are also a number of games from independent developers that are worth looking out for. This includes "Ark: Survival Evolved," "We Happy Few," and "Thimbleweed Park" among others. Fans are also told to wait until the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017 for further exciting announcements. Many speculate that the Xbox Project Scorpio will be unveiled during Microsoft's briefing event during the E3, and more games might be announced by this time too. The event will be held on June 13 to 15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, but Microsoft will hold their briefing event on June 11, days before the actual E3 commences. Most Popular Stories. Top 10 Highlights From Trump's First State of the Union Speech. Moody Bible Obfuscating, 'Using Silence as Defense' Amid Shakeup, Say Former Employee, Sources. Former Moody Radio host Julie Roys is asserting that despite assurances of no corruption in leadership from Moody Bible Institute, the school continues to obscure the truth. Praises, Put-Downs, Polls and Fact Checks: 7 Reactions to Trump's First State of the Union. President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, with themes centered on economic revival, tax cuts, and immigration reform. 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Scalebound's cancellation draws attention to this year's anaemic Xbox line-up; is this Scorpio's rain shadow, or a more worrying trend? Friday 13th January 2017. Share this article. Companies in this article. As with many game cancellations, it's likely we'll never know exactly why Platinum Games' Xbox One exclusive Scalebound has been dropped by Microsoft. For a game that's been in development for several years at a top-flight studio, helmed by one of the most accomplished directors working in the industry today, to be cancelled outright is a pretty big deal. Even acknowledging that most of the cost of launching a game lies in marketing budgets, not development costs, this still represents writing off a fairly huge financial investment - not to mention the hard-to-quantify costs to the image and reputation of the Xbox brand. This isn't the kind of decision that's made rapidly or taken lightly - and though the reasons remain obscure, we can guess that a mix of factors was considered. For one thing, it's fairly likely that the game wasn't living up to expectations. Scalebound was ambitious, combining unusual RPG aspects with a style of action Platinum Games (usually masters of the action genre) hadn't attempted before, and throwing four-player co-op into the mix as well. There are a lot of things in that mix that could go wrong; plenty of fundamental elements that just might not gel well, that might look good on paper but ultimately fail to provide the kind of compelling, absorbing experience a AAA console exclusive needs. These things happen, even to the most talented of creative teams and directors. For another thing, though, it's equally likely that Microsoft's decision stems in part from some issues internal to the publisher. Since Scalebound went into development in 2013, the Xbox division has been on a long, strange journey, and has ended up in a very different place to the one it anticipated when it inked its deal with Platinum three years ago. When Microsoft signed on to publish Scalebound, it was gearing up to launch an ambitious successor to the hugely successful Xbox 360 which would, it believed, expand upon the 360's audience by being an all-purpose entertainment box, a motion-controlled device as much media hub and high-tech TV viewing system as game console. "In terms of reasons for a player to choose Xbox One over the more successful PS4, or indeed for an existing PS4 owner to invest in an Xbox One as a second console (a vital and often overlooked factor in growing the install base mid-cycle), things are very sparse" By the time Scalebound was cancelled this week, much of that ambition had been scrapped, PS4 had soared off into the sunset leaving Microsoft trailing in a very distant second place, and Xbox One has become instead one link in a longer chain, a single component of an Xbox and Xbox Live brand and platform that extends across the Windows 10 ecosystem and which will, later this year, also encompass a vastly upgraded console in the form of Scorpio. It only stands to reason that the logic which led to the signing of a game before this upheaval would no longer apply in the present environment. While quality issues around Scalebound cannot be dismissed - if Microsoft felt that it had a truly great game on its hands, it would have proceeded with it regardless of any strategic calculation - the implications of Scalebound's cancellation for the broader Xbox strategy are worthy of some thought. Actually, it's not so much Scalebound itself - which is just one game, albeit a very high profile one - as the situation in which its cancellation leaves the Xbox in 2017, and the dramatic defocusing of exclusive software which the removal of Scalebound from the release list throws into sharp relief. A quick glance down 2017's release calendar suggests that there remain only two major Xbox One exclusive titles due to launch this year - Halo Wars 2 and Crackdown 3. The console remains well supported with cross-platform releases, of course, but in terms of reasons for a player to choose Xbox One over the more successful PS4, or indeed for an existing PS4 owner to invest in an Xbox One as a second console (a vital and often overlooked factor in growing the install base mid-cycle), things are very sparse. By contrast, the PS4 has a high profile exclusive coming out just about every few weeks - many of them from Sony's first-party studios, but plenty of others coming from third parties. Platinum Games' fans will note, no doubt, that Sony's console will be getting a new title from the studio - NieR: Automata - only a few months after Scalebound's cancellation. The proliferation of multiplatform games means that Xbox One owners won't be starved of software - this is no Wii U situation. Existing owners, and those who bought into the platform after the launch of the Xbox One S last year, will probably be quite happy with their system, but the fact remains that with the exception of the two titles mentioned above and a handful of indie games (some of which do look good), the Xbox One this year is going to get by on a subset of the PS4's release schedule. That's not healthy for the future of the platform. The strong impression is that third parties have largely abandoned Xbox One as a platform worth launching exclusive games on, and unlike Sony during the PS3's catch-up era, Microsoft's own studios and publishing deals have not come forward to take up the slack in its console's release schedule. This isn't all down to Scalebound, of course; Scalebound is just the straw that breaks the camel's back, making this situation impossible to ignore. Why have things ended up this way? There are two possible answers, and the reality is probably a little from column A and a little from column B. The first answer is that Microsoft's strategy for Xbox has changed in a way which makes high-profile (and high-cost) exclusive software less justifiable within the company. That's especially true of high-profile games that won't be on Windows 10 as well as Xbox One; one of the ways in which the Xbox division has secured its future within Microsoft in the wake of the company's reorganisation under CEO Satya Nadella is by positioning itself as a key part of the Windows 10 ecosystem. "Seamus Blackley, Ed Fries, Kevin Bachus and the rest of the original Xbox launch team understood something crucial all the way back in the late nineties when they were preparing to enter Microsoft into the console business; software sells hardware" Pushing Xbox One exclusive software flies in the face of that strategic positioning; new titles Microsoft lines up for the future will be cross-platform between Windows and Xbox, and that changes publishing priorities. It's also worth noting that the last attempt Microsoft made to plug the gap in its exclusive software line-up didn't go down so well and hasn't been repeated; paying for a 12-month exclusivity window for the sequel to the (multiplatform) Tomb Raider reboot just seems to have annoyed people and didn't sell a notable number of Xbox Ones. The second answer, unsurprisingly, revolves around Scorpio. It's not unusual for a console to suffer a software drought before its successor appears on the market, so with Scorpio presumably being unveiled at E3 this year, the Xbox One release list could be expected to dry up. The wrinkle in this cloth is that Scorpio isn't meant to be an Xbox One replacement. What little information Microsoft has provided about the console thus far has been careful to position it as an evolution of the Xbox One platform, not a new system. What that means in practice, though, hasn't been explained or explored. Microsoft's messaging on Scorpio is similar to the positioning of PS4 Pro - an evolutionary upgrade whose arrival made no difference to software release schedules - but at the same time suggests a vastly more powerful system, one whose capabilities will far outstrip those of Xbox One to an extent more reminiscent of a generational leap than an evolutionary upgrade. The question is whether Microsoft's anaemic slate of exclusive releases is down, in part, to a focus on getting big titles ready for Scorpio's launch window. If so, it feels awfully like confirmation that Scorpio - though no doubt sharing Xbox One's architecture and thus offering perfect backwards compatibility - is really a new console with new exclusive software to match. If it's not the case, however, then along with clearing up the details of Scorpio, this year's E3 will have to answer another big question for Microsoft; where is all your software? 2017 needs to just be a temporary dip in the company's output, or all its efforts on Scorpio will be for naught. Seamus Blackley, Ed Fries, Kevin Bachus and the rest of the original Xbox launch team understood something crucial all the way back in the late nineties when they were preparing to enter Microsoft into the console business; software sells hardware. If you don't have the games, nothing else matters. Whatever the reasons for 2017's weak offering from Xbox, we must firmly hope that that lesson hasn't been forgotten in the corridors of Redmond. Sign up for The UK Publishing & Retail newsletter and get the best of GamesIndustry.biz in your inbox. Microsoft gaming business up 8% Xbox One X launch drives year-over-year revenue growth for the holiday quarter. Microsoft will add direct game sales to Mixer in 2018. The streaming service will also add on-platform tipping this year. Latest comments (14) Phil Spencer has already mentioned that XB has as yet unannounced games and IP's and I like the quality over quantity approach that Microsoft have, which Sony clearly do not.. Edited 1 times. Last edit by Ben Link on 13th January 2017 6:51pm. Edited 1 times. Last edit by Paul Jace on 14th January 2017 9:42am. I mean yes, they're very good at cushioning their lineup with games that are actually long in the horizon (Kojima's upcoming game will be out when? 2019 most likely?), but that shouldn't affect how a professional website reviews other key players in the industry. When an article headline asks about an upcoming console lineup for the coming year but neglects to mention half of the already announced lineup (something that a basic wikipedia lookup could verify) . that seems very unprofessional. Looking back at 2016 confirms that: both Sony and Microsoft had a pretty similar output of retail titles released, either internally or through external cooperation with other devs/publishers. and while Sony's lineup again contained titled that slipped multiple times (The Last Guardian was announced around when? 2009?), Microsoft had multiple big games (Dead Rising 4, Forza Horizon 3) that were not even formally announced until mid-year at E3. I was expecting to read here at least some official comment from Microsoft on their 2017 plans, not to mention investigative journalism with inside information from people in the know - something that can address any concerns about the planned lineup. That is the added value a proper industry oriented should provide, because highly speculative and borderline clickbaity opinion pieces cashing on a cancelled game we can read anywhere else. Edited 1 times. Last edit by Morville O'Driscoll on 17th January 2017 7:56am. The Xbox One is struggling because video game exclusives still matter. Where have all the Xbox One games gone? Photo: Horizon Zero Dawn. We’re three months into 2017 and it’s already unusually crowded with great exclusive video games. The PlayStation 4 is on a hot streak. Nioh , Yakuza 0 , Gravity Rush 2 , Horizon Zero Dawn, and Nier Automata have already landed to largely positive reviews. In the coming months, the console will also get, MLB 17: The Show , and Persona 5, along with a grab bag of big-name indie titles, including Nex Machina , Nidhogg 2 , and Pyre . And Nintendo has The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , arguably one of the best launch titles of all time. There have never been more third-party releases, and many of the best-selling games appear on multiple platforms. And yet in 2017, exclusives seem as significant to a hardware’s success as ever before. Take Nintendo, for instance. Nintendo hasn’t exactly been great at making sure the latest mainstream titles are available for its consoles (something that will hopefully change with the Switch). But Nintendo stays afloat because while it lacks the option to play Call of Duty or the latest sports titles, it has a strong catalog of exclusive titles and continues to release excellent new entries. It’s a strategy the company is already leaning into with its latest hardware, the Nintendo Switch, which has had a great launch carried almost single-handedly by the stellar The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While sales haven’t officially been reported, research firm SuperData estimates that 89 percent of Switch owners have bought Link’s latest open-world adventure, to the tune of 1.34 million copies. Perhaps the most revealing example of the power of exclusives is Microsoft’s Xbox One, the console that’s struggled to find its niche with first-party games. While Sony has recently offered a variety of games in a short window of time, and Nintendo has, well, Zelda , Microsoft hasn’t quite found its footing. Instead, Microsoft has dealt with underperforming new entries in popular franchises, false starts to new properties, and a number of high-profile cancellations. And this isn’t a case of critical darlings failing to find an audience. The top 50 Xbox One games on Metacritic contains few exclusives: two Forza games ( Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Motorsport 6 ), the original Titanfall , Ori and the Blind Forest , and a pair of legacy remake collections: Halo: The Master Chief collection, and the Rare Replay collection. Highly hyped Microsoft exclusives like ReCore , Quantum Break , and Halo Wars 2 have been released to semi-positive reviews, but the company has been mum on sales. The few critically lauded Xbox One exclusives, like Halo 5: Guardians or Sunset Overdrive, have quickly faded from the spotlight. Worse, some of Xbox’s biggest franchises have struggled to match the sales of previous entries. The Xbox One’s exclusive lineup has also suffered delays, setbacks, and closures. Quantum Break saw numerous delays before its release, and Crackdown , announced years ago, won't hit until later this year at the earliest. Scalebound , Fable Legends , and Ion were outright canceled, and Project Spark was shut down. And even Microsoft’s big-name indie titles Below and Cuphead have experienced delays. Exclusives aren’t everything. Nintendo's inability to get mainstream third-party releases on its hardware has made its wares into a secondary console for many customers — hardware people buy after they purchase a console that runs Madden and Grand Theft Auto . Where does that leave Microsoft in the current living room landscape? Without unique games, the Xbox One is a slightly less powerful, definitely less popular PlayStation 4. What’s strange about the Xbox One’s troubles is how it’s being bested by a playbook it wrote. The Xbox 360 basically pioneered indie publishing for consoles with the Xbox Live Indie Games program and Summer of Arcade. But Sony and Nintendo have since welcomed indie developers with open arms (and sometimes open wallets). In recent years, major indie releases hit PS4 first, while Microsoft's baffling parity clause — which required that any games that released for other platforms had to launch on the Xbox One at the same time, or not at all — drove away a number of developers. Microsoft is finally softening its stance on that issue, which is why Xbox owners can finally play Rocket League and Shovel Knight months after the hype. Microsoft made the Xbox 360 the go-to place for fans of popular first-person shooters and AAA blockbusters, securing DLC timed exclusivity for Grand Theft Auto IV and the Call of Duty series. But now, Sony has the timed exclusivity not just for Call of Duty , but the massively popular Destiny . This is where it would be nice for the story to pivot, but things just aren’t that sunny for Microsoft. In addition to the onslaught of big titles that just got released as PS4 exclusives, the company has also announced Uncharted: The Lost Legacy , The Last of Us Part II, the upcoming God of War sequel, Insomniac's Spider-Man game, Kojima’s Metal Gear follow-up Death Stranding , and Square-Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Remake , all of which will only be available on Sony's console. Nintendo obviously has Fire Emblem and a massive Mario game on its slate, but at least is trying to attract more widespread games — who’d have thought that a Nintendo-built console would ever run Skyrim ? But Microsoft has surprisingly few announced big-name exclusives: Crackdown 3 , Sea of Thieves , and State of Decay 2 , and a pair of indies in Below and Cuphead . Of course, it is possible Microsoft is just operating in a stealth mode until it can use E3 and Scorpio as a chance to reboot? Sure. Xbox head Phil Spencer commented in a recent blog post that Microsoft is “committed to delivering even more exclusive games for both Xbox One and Windows 10 this year than we launched in 2016.” But then the question becomes whether Microsoft can really announce a slate of exclusives at E3 that will be ready for the Scorpio launch in the fall? There’s also the looming possibility that Microsoft will make the exact same mistake as it did with the original Xbox One launch. Then, Microsoft made the poor decision of focusing too much on the hardware, emphasizing Kinect and the pass-through HDMI port largely saving game announcements for a future presentation. The worst-case scenario for the Project Scorpio announcement reveal would be a continued focus on the superior hardware, once again ignoring the importance of actually having great games to play on it . Or perhaps Microsoft believes raw power is its best play. It’s possible that Scorpio could see Microsoft taking a page from PC gaming’s playbook — focusing less on exclusive titles, and more on offering a powerful platform that will run third-party games better than any other console. Project Scorpio could be an interesting middle ground between the offering the convenience of console gaming with the incredible graphics and experience offered by a traditional gaming PC. We’re already even seeing crossover between PC and Xbox gaming through the Xbox Play Anywhere program, which offers cross-compatible titles. Project Scorpio could be the next step in bridging that divide, with less of a focus on exclusive titles and more on offering the best gaming experience possible in your living room for the wealth of games that are available on all platforms. In this case, Microsoft would have a new take on the idea of exclusivity: it might not have the most or best exclusives, but with Scorpio and crossplay, it could become the best place to play everything else. And considering most of the best-selling games each year are third party, it’s perhaps not the worst strategy. Look, console exclusives suck. They split up the player base, force developers to pick sides, and bring endless amounts of dumb, pointless feuding to the gaming community. Imagine how much longer the original Titanfall could have lasted with a console customer base that was twice as large. When Battlefield or Destiny content gets arbitrarily locked to whichever console paid Activision of EA the most money that year, it’s players who suffer. But for better or for worse the console exclusives are still crucial to a successful console in today’s day and age. It’s the reason that, as of January, the PS4 was still outselling the Xbox One by nearly twice as much. It’s the reason that Nintendo is able to bank on Zelda for driving early Switch adoption. In an ideal world, you’d be able to buy just a single device based on its own merits and get the games you’d like for it rather than having to drop almost a grand on hardware just to be able to play all of the great games. But unfortunately, we’re not there yet. And so for Microsoft, Project Scorpio may be an opportunity: if it can’t win the game of exclusive software, why not make exclusivity about hardware instead? Next Up In Gaming. Now Trending. Command Line. Command Line delivers daily updates from the near-future. GamesRadar+ The best upcoming Xbox One games for 2018 and beyond. The best upcoming games to Xbox One for this year. This month brought Monster Hunter World to Xbox One and it's a good way to start off the year. That means Sea of Thieves is the next big things, literally on the horizon as it's ship sails in on March 20. And that's quickly followed by Far Cry 5 on March 27. So a busy way to kick 2018 off. One good things about this year is that we should finally get some much needed Xbox One X exclusives. There's Sea of Thieves, obviously, but also with Crackdown 3 and State of Decay 2 promised for 'Spring'. Plus there's also things like Metal Gear Survive, Vampyr and more on the way. And we'll see a lot more Xbox One X enhanced games joining the library too.. There are a lot of Xbox One games on the way, so this is a big list. You can work though it in order if you want, or skip to the games you want to see using the page links and guide below (in the order everything's out). Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Metal Gear Survive. State of Decay 2. Red Dead Redemption 2. Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. Call of Cthulhu: The Official Game. Kingdom Hearts 3. Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Beyond Good & Evil 2. Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Release date: February 13, 2018. Genre: Action role playing game. What is it? A classic tale of village nobody rising up to kill the bad king, and make everything nice again by cutting stuff up with a sword. What to look out for: It's a big medieval open world adventure built on freedom with numerous non-linear quests that can be completed in several different ways. While the overall aim is to drive out an invading army (who killed your parents) the skill system will let you progress however you want. Classes like warrior, bard, thief, and different hybrid types are mentioned. There's also a time limited converstation system that builds or break relationships. And, just to emphasis the 'real' nature of it all, the player will have needs like sleep and eating, while gear and clothes will degrade and require repair. The Crew 2. Release date: March 16, 2018. What is it? The sequel to Ubi racer that sees you driving, flying and boating across a huge open world adventure. What to look out for: The second game has gone all out with its motoring action, by not only letting you drive just about every vehicle imaginable, you can also switch freely between them. If you get bored of racing you can swap instantly to a plane and soar away from the road. Then, seconds later, swoop over a river and switch to a boat. All of this is happening across a huge, open world interpretation of America, giving you the freedom to indulge just about every kind of racing, flying and boating imaginable. Sea of Thieves. Genre: Online action-adventure. What is it? An online open-world where you join fellow motley pirates, crafting your own stories as you sail the waves. What to look out for: D'you remember the days when Rare turned around and said things like, 'our next game is about a forgotten character in Diddy Kong Racing who now swears and fights turds'? OK, Sea of Thieves isn't quite that much of a departure, but it's a classically Rare-like step into the unknown. A cartoony, pirate-themed MMO, it enables players to craft their own stories as they join a crew, grab a ship and, presumably, brutally attack unsuspecting passers-by. The brief glimpses of high seas action served up at E3 2016 point to a rollicking adventure that looks like it'll provide us with our first worthwhile pirate game since Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. Rare hasn't elaborated much on those custom story tools, and there are also rumours of first-person features, yet despite the remaining questions, our timbers are very much shivered by this ocean outlaw. Release date: March 23, 2018. What is it? A split-screen co-op tale of two rogues trying to break out of prison, who reluctantly team up for mutual benefit. In other words, not exactly an Orange is the New Black buddy comedy. What to look out for: Spearheaded by Josef Fares, the mind between Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out going to have you control either Vincent or Leo, who both have the urge to get out. Interestingly the screen is going to be split, with one player perhaps being in a cutscene while the other sneaks around the unsuspecting NPC or takes advantage of their partner's distraction. It looks like collaboration and planning is going to be a key part of the game, and seeing as you can't play it solo it's going to be bonding exercise with either a buddy or an online stranger for many players. Release date: March 27, 2018. What is it? Another bout of free-form, open-world anarchy, this time in a location much closer to home. What to look out for: Making notable steps forward in both gameplay and subject matter, Far Cry 5 could – after a couple of so-so sequels and spin-offs – be the series’ next, stand-out sequel. Moving the action to America for the first time, Far Cry 5 is set in modern-day Montana. Even more intriguingly, it might have – if Ubisoft is willing to follow through – one of the most relevant and controversial stories in recent AAA gaming. Dealing with the very real issue of isolationist, survivalist cults, Far Cry 5 puts you up against a militant ‘faith, freedom, and firearms’ militia in control of a huge swathe of the Montana countryside. Along the way, you’ll recruit a resistance, call in gun-mounted cropdusters, ally with combat priests, and make friends with Good Dogs who will both sick enemies for you, and cheerily bring back those enemies’ guns like so many happily retrieved sticks. And for the first time in the series’ history, there will be a fully-featured character creator, meaning that you can play as whoever you want. Metal Gear Survive. What is it? A strange online spin-off from Metal Gear Solid 5, where Mother Base soldiers battle zombies in an alternate dimension. What to look out for: By all rights, this should utterly, utterly suck. Konami is rapidly trying to exit the traditional triple-A games space, Metal Gear's legendary creator and iconic auteur has bitterly parted ways with the publisher, and oh yeah. IT'S A FREAKIN' ONLINE MGS ZOMBIE GAME. Yet against all odds, the Kojima-less Survive is already looking decidedly decent. The demo from 2016's Tokyo Game Show revealed a game that's undeniably erected on MGSV's building blocks - hell, its 'alternate dimension' Afghan map reuses loads of assets from The Phantom Pain - yet one that still has a few tricks of its own to deploy. Four-player co-op carnage against rampaging zombie hordes. Healing smashed limbs, Snake-Eater style. Building barricades in a way that's reminiscent of old school COD zombies. A seeming return for MGS4's threat ring. Survive may be a bizarre, somewhat shameless spin-off, but you can't accuse it of being boring. And yes, you can still Fulton sheep. Bloodstained. Genre: Action-adventure exploration platformer. What is it? A side-scroller heavy with the influence of Castlevania, which will have you slashing your way past demons as you puzzle your way through an eerie mansion. What to look out for: If you lie awake at night missing Castlevania, I have some excellent news. The mastermind behind the later 2D series, Koji Igarashi. is hiding away working on his newest game. Centred around orphan Miriam, it’s a tale about her voyage to lift the curse that’s slowly turning her skin into crystal. As would be expected, she’s not crazy about the idea of becoming a walking mineral, so she sets off to hunt down a summoner who has suffered from the same affliction for a long time. Nostalgia will hit you in the face if you’re a fan of Castlevania, as it’s got the same seamless action, gothic atmosphere, and haunted locale spelunking. Current page: Page 1. Recommended. 8 things to watch out for this week. Who are the GamesRadar+ team? 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From the in-depth, story-driven single-player campaign to the innovative and accessible Blitz mode, to the more traditional Deathmatch, Halo Wars 2 is designed for players of all skill levels to have fun. And, with Xbox Play Anywhere, players get both the Xbox One and Windows 10 PC versions of Halo Wars 2 with a single digital purchase, including shared progress and achievements across both platforms. I have been playing Halo Wars 2 behind the scenes for a few months now and the game feels like a return to what made the first Halo Wars great with a new take on RTS that will attract even more gamers to the genre. 2017 is shaping up to be one of the most exciting years ever for Xbox gamers. We are preparing to launch the most powerful console ever made this holiday – Project Scorpio – along with a diverse lineup of games. In fact, we are committed to delivering even more exclusive games for both Xbox One and Windows 10 this year than we launched in 2016. I was very proud of our first-party lineup in 2016 and I am encouraged by an even bigger and more differentiated first-party lineup in 2017, starting with today’s launch of Halo Wars 2 . Our studio partners at Rare, Undead Labs and Sumo Digital/Reagent Games are working hard to develop exclusive Xbox One and Windows 10 games this year, from new IP like Sea of Thieves to all-new chapters of fan-favorite franchises like State of Decay 2 and Crackdown 3. Sea of Thieves is currently in technical alpha and is taking a community-oriented approach that lets players participate in the development process, and both State of Decay 2 and Crackdown 3 are looking and playing great. And of course, we’ll have more in store for you at E3 2017 in June. I’m also excited about the return of two original Xbox classics coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 this spring – Phantom Dust and Voodoo Vince . 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That's why there's 15 top list as far as I know Raiden V, Students of round 2 and Astroneer, Ashen, Below I believe Crackdown 3 isn't coming to PC. You didn't watch the video of course so fail comment. Good to having you back trolling all the Xbox articles Mike. The reality is, it's software that makes the profit, not hardware. Windows is an MS platform. If you have a gaming PC, buy it on that. If you have an Xbox, buy it on that. While the trolls are dancing over what an exclusive means and console sales, MS are raking it in on software sales. Laughable that so many on the Sony side can't see the simple commercial logic. You failed to see that MS have already redefined what it means for a game to be "exclusive". @ZB redifined exclusives? nope, if it is on a nother platform it is not exclusive, simple as that, hey havnt suddenly changed the meaning of the word Gears 4 and NMS are examples, they are not exclusives. Yep I will be buying the PC versions of these. Those exclusives like Crackdown are coming. And it doesn't help MS as much as you think. That's less hardware Microsoft is gonna sell. Console gamers most likely gonna switch to PS4 since they're not use to making a PC and if you don't make it it's gonna be pricey. This is still a questionable list if it has to bring up Halo 6 which hasn't been announced, or Phantom Dust which is a remake/remaster of the original in the wake of the actual new game's cancellation. Which then touches on the subject of MS cancelling high profile titles like Fable Legend and others. If anything that should have some worries about Crackdown 3 of which not much not much has been shown or seen. As long that they are on my preferred system they are day one buys exclusives or not , but avoid my preferred console and it pretty much becomes a go FK themselves scenario am not supporting it . @mikeslemonade You are a really really sad person arent you, is there something missing in your life or are you paid to make all these troll posts about xbox. But dere is none exclusivs on xbone. Durr. Sadly its a 2 way street & all 3 do as such . "Exclusives" that are also on pc. Yeah except there are no Xbox One exclusives. Great list. Add in Nier Automata and Tyranny and my PC will be all set. I know it says console and timed exclusives in video, but the title says xbox one exclusives. All of those games coming to PC win 10 and some of them to steam. Dead Rising 4 comes to ps4 as well next year and Below as well (dont know about other indies and games on that list). Why is Phantum dust on that list? It is just an Original XBOX port with no graphics upgrade or anything. but i thought the ps4 was the console with too much indies and JRPG's? since when did MS and Sony switch places? I own both an XB1 and a PS4, don't have a gaming PC, and yeah the XB1 is killing it. Much better console than the PS4 due to better driving games in the Forza series, Elite Dangerous, the Game Preview Program (Ark, Everspace, Long Dark etc), generally better "free" games each month with gold, backwards compatibility, EA Access. I like my PS4 don't get me wrong, I love the Uncharted series, 4 was great, and I love Until Dawn, but overall the XB1 has better console exclusives IMO. Elite Dangerous for example is just stunning, an amazing immersive space game with depth that puts No Man's Sky to shame. Forza Horizon 3, wow just wow, best driving game I've ever played and the racing/driving genre is one of my favourites. I would also say that FH3 is the best looking game this generation, not necessarily technically (The Order 1886, UC4, Ryse etc) but the art direction and the lighting combined with the day/night cycle and setting, stunning, driving around Oz when the sun is setting looks phenomenal, really really beautiful game. Best sky boxes I've ever seen in a game and I imagine it looks even better in HDR. And with Gears 4 coming soon, Dead Rising 4 before Xmas, Scalebound, Crackdown, State of Decay 2 and Sea of Thieves coming next year the XB1 will continue to have better console exclusive games than the PS4. i read your comment and laughed hard. Scalebound cancelled, crackdown 3 is having a development problem.. phantom dust cancelled. fable gone and yet XB1 is killing it?? I mean HOW?? DR 4 is coming on PS4 too.. PS4 sold over 55mil consoles.. so do you even realize how deep trouble xbox one is at. 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