Microsoft keeps making this Xbox mistake: Pushing the platform, and not the games

Microsoft is committing the same sin today that it did with the launch of the Xbox One: The focus of a game console shouldn't be about the platform, but the games. Compare the first images shown off at Microsoft's press conference, and then at Sony's. Microsoft launched its new Xbox One S console in the first few seconds, while Sony (following a long introduction by an in-house orchestra) led off with an extended clip from the new God of War game. To its credit, I don't think Microsoft necessarily set out to make the Xbox One the focus of its E3 presentation. But by the end of it, we weren't talking about games like the creepily dystopian We Happy Few, but whether or not gamers should buy a slimmer Xbox One S or wait for the vastly more powerful Project Scorpio.