I agree that Microsoft should not be petty and all but they themselves are aware of the “bias” going on as evidenced by court documents. When we talk about bias, it goes beyond just mindshare from the PS4 era and it’s games, but nostalgic loyalty they( the outlets/reviewers) have from their childhood when they owned a PS1 or 2, which affect how they perceive systems outside that ecosystem( Nintendo is the same).
It’s messed up to think about that not even a decade ago the sco (which I don’t think was a term used all that often) wasn’t driven for games industry of Xbox is doomed.
I think Jez (if it was Jesse on the Xbox era podcast I’m sorry lol) that was going into detail about how in the last few years gaming sites pivoted really needed to lean into Xbox is doomed or here is why what Xbox is doing is bad. As those articles get way more traction to sites then anything else in gaming for the last few years.
On topic. For the sake of competition (I don’t own any PlayStation console) I hope they have a few big surprises and not just money hat some more games like ff16.
As anyone that cares about their console doing some cool and sometimes very inventive games/ ideas competition does that. If the Xbox one truly took off I doubt we would have seen the money spent on gamepass or projects like pentitment / high fi rush give published.