Xbox One
It’s hard to judge how the Xbox One is doing as far as console sales go other than just knowing that it’s behind the PlayStation 4. There are no exact figures to point to. There are comments from people such as EA’s Chief Financial Officer, Blake Jorgensen, who suggested the Xbox One was being outsold 2:1 by the PS4, but still, it’s difficult to gauge the sales success of the console in recent months.
Console sales aside, the Xbox One has done some good things on the games front. The console just saw the release of the hotly-anticipated Quantum Break, its first big AAA exclusive of 2016. Combine this with a steady stream of new games coming to the Xbox One’s backwards-compatible library, and some solid games coming to Games With Gold this month, it’s not hard to make the argument that Microsoft has put the effort in to keep Xbox One owners content in the early parts of 2016.
However, the immediate future looks a little bleak. We know the likes of Halo Wars 2, Crackdown 3, and Gears of War 4 are all coming at some point this year, but only Gears 4 has a solid release date of the three. Of course, this may all come in due time at E3, but based on current knowledge, aside from Quantum Break and the upcoming Gears, fans of Microsoft’s console don’t have many big-name exclusive experiences to look forward to.
With HoloLens due to have some form of compatibility with the Xbox One, the distant future for the console is definitely an exciting one. Augmented Reality has the potential to have a lot more practical uses than VR, though how it will be used with gaming is yet to be fully explored.
