I thought they'd try to bring Rare Replay to the Switch but I'm fine with this.

I'm still wondering why they announced the games that they did.

Microsoft and their messageing..... its so damn crappy and all over the place!

Look at this from May:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18645250/microsoft-xbox-game-studios-publishing-valve-steam-32-bit-windows

^ basically everything will now go onto Steam as well.
(Gears + Halo and all Age of Empires I, II, and III: Definitive Editions...)

Also look at most of those game studios they just bought.
Alot of them are working on multi plat games, that will go to PS4 as well (which will be 1st party, since bought studios).

The messageing is horrible... this is basically a "lie".

Most of this generation many claimed Xbox has no games, than shortly after they get disapponted that the games wont come to other platforms..
Simple anwser to this is, if you like Xbox games than buy an Xbox or a Windows 10 PC, than you have insurance the games will always be available, if the games dont interest people enough than its not a huge blow to miss out.
Same can be said for any platform. Invest or miss out.

To me it screams that they don't know what exactly they want to do with Xbox.  A lot of the steps they have taken lately has pointed to wanting to go full streaming, possibly multiplat.  With the top brass at MS barely talking about the Scarlett, instead focusing on their xCloud and GamerPass future, which they will probably try to put on multiple platforms in the end.  Even going so far to say that the main reason for the acquisitions was to increase content on those services.  And MS's Matt Booty said that they would most likely allow them to continue making multiplats if they wanted to. 

If I had a guess, Spencer is trying to convince them to hold off on those plans to help push the Scarlett.  However, if Scarlett enjoys the same fate, or worse, than the XBO, you can bet they'll initiate Project Multiplat real quick.  Of course, Spencer isn't great with his messaging, either.  Just two years ago he was downplaying 60FPS, only now to say it is the most important thing to Xbox going forward.  I wouldn't be surprised if they, and Xbox fans, use that as the excuse as to why Scarlett exclusives don't look as good as PS5 exclusives, especially if it actually does turn out that the PS5 is more powerful.  "Well, of course they don't look as good, they are focusing on what's important, 60 FPS."  With the argument being just 2-3 years ago, "X has more 4K games."

It's also important to note, like you said, that a lot of the bigger studios MS bought all have multiplats that they will be making first before shifting over to Xbox/Windows exclusively.  It may not be til 2021/22 til we see those.  Unless they are smaller games.  Or are rushed and/or lack quality.  With the track record of the last couple of years for XBO exclusives, either one of those are a possibility.

If there was one word for Xbox game studios that word would be, "directionless" Still though, it's obviously nonsense, if anything comes from Mojang it will 100% be on platforms other than the effectively dead Xbox1 and PC, it would be leaving money on the table for no reason to not bring a "minecraft 2" to other platforms simply because it's not so big an IP that people would buy a system to play it however limiting it to only their platform would maul the sales it could have. Not just to other consoles but also Android and IOS ports of it.

Well seems like a lot of users were wrong on the thread of Halo on Switch.

Ugh come on, just at least two more Xbox games on the Switch.

Rare Replay and Ori 2 then you're free to stop planning.

QUAKECore89 said: Ugh come on, just at least two more Xbox games on the Switch. Rare Replay and Ori 2 then you're free to stop planning.

Ya know, with a hacked Switch you could probably get just about everything from Rare Replay up until OG XB and the X360 games on there on the Switch, just saying if you were dying for Banjo on Switch running in HD, you can do that right now with a tool from amazon/ebay but... you'll wanna move your Nintendo account off the system first!

That's half the reason I was planning to get that revision with the updated battery so that I can hack my day 1 Switch after taking my EU/US and Jap accounts from it along with the 200-300 games I own on them.

Ganoncrotch said: QUAKECore89 said: Ugh come on, just at least two more Xbox games on the Switch. Rare Replay and Ori 2 then you're free to stop planning. Ya know, with a hacked Switch you could probably get just about everything from Rare Replay up until OG XB and the X360 games on there on the Switch, just saying if you were dying for Banjo on Switch running in HD, you can do that right now with a tool from amazon/ebay but... you'll wanna move your Nintendo account off the system first! That's half the reason I was planning to get that revision with the updated battery so that I can hack my day 1 Switch after taking my EU/US and Jap accounts from it along with the 200-300 games I own on them.

Or you could go out and buy a 2nd hand X360 and download the real game for a cheap price.

Especially when a next gen system is around the corner.