Xbox Faithful Are Trying To Hype Up Platforms 2024 Lineup

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Let’s start this article with a blunt statement: Microsoft is not doing the best right now when you look at its sales of the Xbox Series X/S or even some of the games on its platforms. It’s being blown away by the PlayStation 5, which it launched alongside, and is still being dominated by the Nintendo Switch despite it being seven years old! Microsoft has tried to “stem the tide” in certain ways, like by pushing the Xbox Game Pass, but even that is starting to show flaws. But its gamers are trying to hold onto hope, including by praising the console’s first-party titles coming in 2024.

If you were present yesterday during the Developer Direct, five games were shown off that were noted to be coming to Microsoft’s console, four of which were exclusive games. As one dedicated Xbox fan noted below on Twitter, at first glance, it seems like a solid roster of games:

Xbox first-party brings the heat in 2024!

All of that, plus The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road, Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, Call of Duty, on-going significant updates to Halo Infinite, Forza, Sea of Thieves, Age of Empires, Overwatch, Starfield and so much more. pic.twitter.com/EehZkrUL0k

On the one hand, we can understand their excitement for some of these titles, and compared to, say, last year, there are some standouts that you can be actively excited for and feel it’ll be more than a “one-game year.” Which, to be blunt once again, kind of happened to Microsoft last year after certain titles fell on their face.

But is the tweet accurate in that this lineup “brings the heat?” Well…no. For a few reasons. First off, putting a certain “flight simulator” into that lineup isn’t the best supporting argument. Yes, it’s one of the most popular simulator games of all time and is used in the real-world training of pilots, but it’s not exactly a “gaming title” in the overall sense.

Second, while games like Towerborne and Ara History Untold are exclusives, that doesn’t mean they will be “meaningful hits” on the