Not the popular YouTube channel, just my theory on what happened with this game. You might think this is a stupid post… it is.
At the Evil Xbox Headquarters…
(Ominous music que)
Xbox Overlord 1: It seems our Xbox One isn’t selling as well as we’d hope. There are only 5 million people on there. Are people just losing interest in our console?
Xbox Overlord 2: Well that DRM fiasco probably didn’t help…
Xbox Overlord 1: I really wanted to put that in there, ugh doesn’t matter once enough people have bought the XBone I’ll just release DRM again in a mandatory Xbox Live update.
XO2: You are evil.
XO1: Thank you, I know… muwahahaha
XO3: Sir I highly doubt people have lost interest, there are currently 31 million people subscribed to Xbox Live on Xbox 360. Look for yourself Xbox Statistics - Statistic Brain
XO2: Hmm… if we could get those players off the 360 and onto the XBone it would give us a bigger number than the PS4. But how?
XO1: I have an idea!
The next day…
XO1: Hello Forza, what are you guys up too?
Forza: Hey, just getting started on Horizon 2.
XO1: Oh really, Horizon 1 was a great game. It was very popular too.
Forza: Thank you, we hope to make this one even better.
XO1: Well we’re glad to have you as an Xbox exclusive franchise.
Forza: Glad to be here.
XO1: Great, so you wouldn’t mind doing us a favor would you?
Forza: Uhm… what do you want?
XO1: We need you to make the Xbox 360 version of Horizon 2 to be extremely awful.
Forza: WHAT why?
XO1: Well if the Xbox One version is a million times better it will coax the people still on Xbox 360 to buy our new Xbox One.
Forza: I don’t know if we could do that.
XO1: It’s simple just take away Tuning, don’t release DLC for it, don’t allow players to change weather, make the game shorter with less events, only release the game with a small list of cars, only allow 8 players on multiplayer, disable traffic on multiplayer, no Pre-Order bonus and no further support after the game is released.
Forza: Oh dear god, no… NO that wouldn’t even be a Forza game anymore. Hell that would barely be a game at all. No one is going to buy that. Why don’t we just make it exclusive to Xbox One?
XO1: We want to trick people into thinking the Xbox 360 is obsolete. If they can’t get a game that’s one thing, but if they get a shell of a game then see how amazing that game can be on the Xbox One they’ll want to go out and get it. Look, just tell them the Xbox 360 can’t handle all that… or take 10 dollars off the price.
Forza: NO we would never do that to our fans.
XO1: Fine… we’ll sell you EA then.
Forza: OKAY WE’LL DO IT! Please! Anything but that!!!
XO1: Excellent.
Froza: You are evil.
XO1: Thank you, I know… muwahahahahhahhahhahha
The End
