Edit: It turns out I am not perfect and have holes in my knowledge. Games that are wrongly categorized are shifted over to the other list, but with a strikethrough to indicate a change, to preserve my original thoughts.
Games, brands and series associated with XBOX, compared to other console brands. The lists doesn’t mean exclusives or best games. It’s more of, what you think of games, when you think of XBOX.
Core brands created by XBOX
- Halo
- Gears of War
- Fable
- Forza
Secondary brands created by XBOX
Age of Empires- Sea of Thieves
- Starfield
- Hellblade
- State of Decay
Purchased by XBOX
- Age of Empires
- Minecraft
- Call of Duty
- WoW
- Overwatch
- Diablo
- Fallout
- DOOM
- Killer Instinct
Console exclusives with XBOX
- Lost Odyssey
Associated with XBOX, but no longer exclusive
- Ninja Gaiden
- Titanfall
- Star Wars Knights of the Republic (KOTOR)
- Ori and the Blind Forest
I was thinking about XBOX and its future, and somehow I got tangled in history and what the brand recognition is. This is the end result of my thoughts.
How does it come that you associate this game so strongly with XBOX? It was available on Playstation too at launch, as far as I know.
@thingsiplay You probably know this, but the Xbox 360 was super popular in its heyday. Games like Red Dead or Batman Arkham Asylum and City didn’t have to be exclusive to Xbox to make them great on the system. I’ve never believed in exlusivities, just in the platform that’s right for you.
Also, the people I knew all had the 360.
I was also a XBOX 360 kid, BTW. Sometimes if a game works better on one system, then you associate it with that system. Or based on marketing. I personally wasn’t into those two games (but played Arkham games later on PC), so it just came as a surprise to me.