I think the answer to this is simply: things change.

The last time I would have died on my sword for a company was Sega, their first party output of games was wild, immense and varied while never reaching the pristine nature of Nintendo's main first party, you couldn't argue the above average variety which for me mostly hovered around exceptional.

Nowadays from the big console 3, they all offer something different to me which is why I have all the consoles with the Switch next on my list and I think it's the roots of those broad beginnings loving Sega that has made me appreciate more games in general.

So, I don't think it's as simple as switching the name of the site to whatever was dominant, popular, favourable or newest at the time, but more that Blim, Drift & Co realised they just have an appreciation of games and the name should reflect that.

That's what I believe the shorthand is anyway, the long hand is probably along the lines of "Sudeki sucked and was one of gaming's top 10 anime betrayals".

Playsyde existed, briefly.

And it was an unfulfilled niche.

I only joined the team in late 2006 or early 2007, can't quite remember exactly. I became a member quite quickly after the website was launched though, mainly because originally you had to be one in order to be able to download the videos. I started participating to one thread only back in 2006, because I was interested in Test Drive Unlimited and the FR thread was pretty big.

Blim created Xboxyde because he was an Xbox owner and he was a bit fed up with the forums he was posting in. He used to be an active member of the Gamekult forums (a professional French website), but he eventually felt it would be so much better if he could just make his own place in the Xbox world. Back then, Blim was much more enthusiastic about games than he now is, but he was clearly already more of a nerd than a hardcore gamer. What he's always liked is the way games are made, especially those who try to push the limits of the hardware.

Playsyde arrived later, mainly because some people were asking for some Playstation coverage, but like Grift said, it never truly worked as both communities remained apart. Then Blim and Snoopers (the guy responsible for our Gamersyde Diaries) decided they wanted to make a living with the website, so they merged both communities and Gamersyde was born. Soon enough though, it became clear that things had changed and that making money with a video game website was more and more complicated. Big US websites started to have exclusive deals and the fight was not fair anymore. Other factors made their dream even more impossible to realize, and Snoopers eventually went his own way and became a director.

Now the reason why we may have seemed less enthusiastic regarding Microsoft is simple. After two very good and promising consoles, we have not been convinced by Xbox One. Scorpio might change things, but today, I think we're more interested in games than in the hardware itself, and since exclusives are now often more appealing on PS4 (and more varied/numerous), maybe that's also why we seemed to switch more to PC and PS4. Also, the fact that I personally play on PC a lot now has sort of made it even less relevant for me to play on Xbox One. I am still pretty curious to see what Scorpio will bring, but I truly hope they have a few surprising exclusives up their sleeve (and I don't mean Forza 7 or Halo 6...).