It took just a day for some clear patterns to emerge in the Xbox Player Voice feedback forum, with the clear-cut leading request being bringing back Xbox console exclusives. A player named Carlos Hernandez shared a request to bring them back, claiming that Xbox isn’t selling enough consoles because there’s no reason to buy them when the games can be bought and played on competing systems. Within a day, that request has received nearly 10,000 upvotes, and over a thousand comments.
Consumers are unfortunately, just that fucking stupid.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Yeah I absolutely believe Xbox fanboys would be in favor of anti-consumerist practices. Not because I think they’re stupid but because one of the main points of contention of the “console wars” were exclusives. Nintendo has exclusives, Sony goes back to exclusivity so obviously monke brain goes “we need exclusivity”. Console gamers want to go back to petty tribalism so their suggestions are going to be reflections of the same tribalism they want to return to.