If 2015 was sharpening the swords and loading the cannons, 2016 and beyond is set to be an all-out Minas Tirith-style battle for your wallet. On the one side you've got Sony, their champion fighters being Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Last Guardian, Detroit: Beyond Human, Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, and whatever Final Fantasy VII's full remake turns into. Microsoft though, woah boy, they aren't just prepping to stand tall, they're playing to win. Gears of War 4, Crackdown 3, Quantum Break, Scalebound, Keiji Inafune's ReCore, Killer Instinct Season 2 and Forza Horizon 3. That's one game for every major genre (being Halo already has the first-person market sewn up), every one of them an exclusive. Exactly how it should be done. Point goes to... Xbox One Everyone's looking to Sony to supplement their sales lead with a reft of titles you can't get anywhere else, but with The Last Guardian delayed, Shenmue not arriving for years (it hadn't even begun development as of E3) and Final Fantasy VII's remake deal only being inked the week prior to the announcement, they're hollow 'exclusives' that are far less bankable than what Microsoft are already showing running right now.
