You know, I said "likely" because the only thing we know right now, is that Epic leaves money on the table, with every Gears game released. Of course, Microsoft can pay them to keep it exclusive. I'm sure People Can Fly would serve as a great developer for the Gears series in the future, and Epic can grab a lot of money from Microsoft. But Epic is in it to sell its engine. They'll have to showcase it, so their next game will come out on every platform, where UE4 is. They have a good chunk of studios by now, so infact they are able to make two games simultaneously and we do know about Fortnite, that's why I assume, that It's just that, and because People Can Fly just finished Gears of War: Judgement. I don't see them revealing another one, so it's either Fortnite or Unreal Tournament 4. Both would be multiplatform.

Just because some of their other games come out on ps4 does not mean they will not get an exclusive from epic; unreal tournament was on ps3 and so was bulletstorm but gears is still exclusive, just like I belive Samaritan will be exclusive on the 720.

I just gathered the information about Microsoft 1st party, from what we've known. Of course if you have anything to add, let me know.

If I counted well, they have 18 studios dedicated for game development, and I left out some, which are just helping 1st and 3rd party development, or only having intrest making mobile games for the Windows Phone platform. It certainly looks great, but they have a lot of unproven studios. The biggest thing will probably come from Black Tusk Studios who are "creating a major franchise for Microsoft to rival their popular Halo franchise."

Jadedx said:

You're Missing Lift London, they are making "cloud based games" but that could be like 1 vs 100 and end up on xbla, also Bigpark is rumored to be working on a core Ip, connected experiences are not confirmed to be working on a fps, jus a large scale multiplayer game, Rare is working on 3 core ips as stated in an old jobs listing and you should not leave out redmond publishing they co develop games with other studios (probably second party), so their games will be exclusive.

I added those studios, although, MS Redmond is made for overseeing 3rd party content, so they probably won't make a game (yet).  I put Lift London to the XBLA section because I found on wikipedia that they're working on "Multiple Cloud Based gaming projects". Which is really great, but I don't see all those being AAA retail games, of course.

U serious a with that vid? Of course it matters. It's the exclusives that defines a console, and most exclusives comes from 1st party studios.