I consider myself a pretty hardcore gamer. I grew up on PC and Nintendo consoles, and I spent a lot of money on Xbox and Xbox 360 games in the later generations. But this gen, I went almost entirely to PC gaming, with the Wii U supplementing any console-based gaming needs I might have. Partly because of the Kinect camera and policy bullshit, and partly because the console simply didn't have any exclusives that appealed to me. As a hardcore gamer, the Wii U is the only console with exclusives that are appealing.
Microsoft's going to have to do a whole lot of getting back to making some GOOD games for me to buy into them again. At the moment, I play my hardcore games on my PC, and my console exclusives on the Wii U. And I'm looking forward to Xenoblade Chronicles X. After being burned by every Halo game after Halo 3, and Fable 2 and 3, Microsoft doesn't have an IP I'm interested in.
