[url=http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/gears-of-war-judgment]Compare Judgment's reception by the fans[/url] to [url=http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/gears-of-war-3]Gears of War 3's.[/url]
We already know what has become of Halo.
It's also ironic that two franchises were destroyed by decisions in the multiplayer side of things. Both Judgment and Halo 4 stray too far away from the excellent formula of their predecessors in favor of dumbed down and "[b]accessible gameplay[/b]".
Both communities are continuing to fall apart. With the dawn of the 720/NextBox, what will Microsoft have at the table beside their meaty list of Kinect titles?
Halo?
Gears of War?
Don't count on it. Considering the latest installments of these franchises have essentially sent them on a path into darkness.
How about Forza?
Quality, but it just doesn't have a large enough community on the Xbox platform to be a system seller.
Fable? Lol no.
I ask again, what's Microsoft going to do? How will they "win next gen"?
My Guess: They won't.
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For a while it seemed like xbox was a different animal from the rest of microsoft. Now it is as if someone realized: "Hey don't we also make Windows? We do, don't we? Instead of making good products, we need to embrace the tried and true formula of making bad products and convincing people those are what they really want."