Something that has helped those games, and not the Xbox One, is that the exclusivity is just regarding other consoles: All of their big "exclusives" are released on PC too, which allowed people like me to skip buying the console altogether.
This is not necessarily great for Microsoft though, as licenses for third party games bring money, and people like me end up using their online store only when there's no other choice.
This is not necessarily great for Microsoft though, as licenses for third party games bring money, and people like me end up using their online store only when there's no other choice.