Good news. MS and Sony waste their money on third party marketing, DLC, and timed exclusives.

Thank god. I felt the Tomb Raider deal was a Don Mattrick's era decision. I made a thread about my frustrations regarding time deals http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=206286&page=1. However, I thought buying Gears of War and Minecraft ip was a smart decision from Microsoft. If you are going to do third party deals, lock the deal forever by buying the ips. Force the Gears of War and Minecraft fans to buy an xbox one over your competitor (playstation and nintendo). Also, when you do buy ips, make sure they're worth it and have a decent amount of fans following the franchise. Don't go for niche games that no one has interest in even if they score well.

Yeah Microsoft can't afford third party games........

Don't bother with them. They're obviously Playstation fans. I guess Recore, Scalebound, Halo, Gears, Forza,Fable,Killer Instinct, Quantum Break, Sea of Theives, Crackdown and more isn't a sign of Microsoft building a great first party lineup. Not to say Sony isn't ,but still.  Microsoft still does third party deals like Madden and fallout. They just rather put more emphasis on first party games.

Yeah MS is putting more effort into its first-party. Good stuff, might buy an XB1 down the line.

Are we talking about the same company that spent 2 billion dollars on....Minecraft?

Now we know why rise of the tomb raider is coming to ps4

But sometimes a response is needed so they don't spread false information as long as it is civil like how I responded to something regarding Gears Ultimate Edition and I was right about it.

This might be bad. What was the last succesful ip that a microsoft studio created? Forza?
Unless he is considering external studios first party, then it should be business as usual.

Gears of war was the big new ip of last gen that did well.