10 2017 Video Games That Wasted Their Biggest Selling Point

1. Saving The Xbox One's Otherwise Disastrous Year - PUBG

All you had to do, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, was be playable. That's all you had to do.

Coming right at the end of the year - a year that for Xbox, was literally devoid of any first-party releases whatsoever - on launch, you were buggy as hell.

PUBG has improved a smidge since then, as Bluehole released a patch claiming it was a "first pass" at fixing the game's graphical issues such as pop-in, where entire buildings could materialise right in front of you. Seriously, a "first pass"? On a release that's not only exclusive to Xbox One, but on a build that was on PC months ago. Optimisation should have been the top priority - people were literally buying Xbox One X's for thing thing.

Imagine buying a grand's worth of new TV and console combo, then firing up a multiplayer game that has millions of concurrent players... only to find the houses don't load in, and it crashes one in every three times.

At time of writing (Jan 6th) the state of PUBG on Xbox is still a sham, and one made ever worse by the fact that you can experience another battle royale mode in Fortnite, for free. F R E E.