8 Valid Concerns About 2019's Remaining Video Games

1. Obsidian Going Xbox Exclusive Kills The Outer Worlds As A Major Franchise

Few developers have had as weird a ride as Obsidian.

Beloved and genuinely treasured by gamers, they're best known as developing stellar sequels to established franchises, only to then be forgotten about when anyone mentions said franchise. KOTOR II, Fallout: New Vegas - the amount of people that think Bethesda created the latter is only evidence of how easily they're forgotten.

Enter The Outer Worlds, a game firstly doing battle with The Outer Wilds when it comes to recognisability, only for the company to be bought up by Microsoft, limiting sales potential to only being a console exclusive.

Granted, exclusive releases can take off - your Spider-Mans, Halos, Horizon Zero Dawns - but they're nothing compared to the power of a Witcher 3 or GTA 5.

It's yet another bump in the road for a company finally creating a new IP the world is paying attention to... only for future sequels to appear exclusively on Xbox hardware.

Obviously this is a massive get for Microsoft. The Outer Worlds is targeting Fallout fans in a way Bethesda aren't with Fallout 76 and its battle royale mode, but if Obsidian finally do become a household name, it'll only serve to associate their future work with team Xbox, and not the devs themselves.