Now, I already see some counterpoints presumably being raised as objections to this, so let’s address them one by one. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild."Somehow, in nine months, the Switch will end up with more big budget retail exclusives on the market than two years of the Xbox One."įor 20, the exclusive retail game tally for the Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch looks as follows: The situation is especially troubling since both of these two years, we have been promised by Xbox boss Phil Spencer that Xbox will have its strongest lineup yet. Somehow, in nine months, the Switch will end up with more big budget retail exclusives on the market than two years of the Xbox One. However, nothing highlights the severity of the situation as well as the realization that, in its first nine months on the market – from Mato Decem– the Nintendo Switch will end up with more big budget retail exclusives than the Xbox One in all of 20 put together. Microsoft’s situation with first party investment in big budget exclusives for the Xbox One has never been worse than it is right now- the situation looks especially egregious since Microsoft is on the cusp of launching new hardware. I’ve talked about it variously, at length, multiple times before. I‘ve been screaming myself hoarse on this thing for a while, now- but the Xbox One exclusives situation is extremely dire.