My god, how ignorant is MacCaffrey? Sony had a very good First party even in the PS1 era...good lord. Phile Spencer is just as bad..we need time, had to focus on hardware? What a load of BS, the guys making games do not make the hardware, sony and N do both as they should. Spencer is full of BS.

Don't forget Sony just opened a new AAA studio....So they are still expanding.

Thanks for the list.

That would make sense, if MS had released quality games recently.

If only there were a way for MS to get several of Sony's exclusives, such as accepting orders of games under 500,000 units. Oh well. XB1 surely doesn't need Nier Automata, Ni No Kuni, DQ Builders, Ys VIII, Disgaea 5, etc.

While I'm not a huge fan, the Forza Horizon games are almost universally considered excellent, and the regular Forza games are also widely praised.   Their other big series - Halo, Halo Wars, and Gears have all had very good entries this gen.  I can't think of anything they've put out that would be considered crap.  

Outside of superficial genre similarities, Horizon is literally nothing like any Ubi game, Mechanically, tonally... easy to tell who has played it and who is trolling.

Wait, what?

First off all, no, it's not like Sony started investing in first party titles in 2007. Yes, after the disastrous launch of PS3 Sony needed to reinvest in first-party games, but the PS1 and PS2 eras had a lot of Sony-published titles. In fact, I'd argue PS2 was the company's best era for homegrown games. Titles like Ico, SotC, Jak, Ratchet, GoW, and others made 2001-2007 a halcyon age for Sony.

As for Phil, I'm done. It's enough already. I don't think I've ever seen a figure in the video game industry whose words and promises are so painfully out of touch with his actions (or the actions of his department). Just tell us the truth: that you're not going to invest in first-party games in the way Sony and Nintendo do; that you're going to rely on "AAA" third-party games to keep hardware sales afloat; that you're going to continue to move first-party games to GamePass because subscription dollars from Xbox Live and Game Pass are the future for Xbox; and that upcoming Microsoft-published games will feature a heavy focus on post-launch content and online multiplayer, to ensure the steady flow of those subscription dollars.

It's not even a bad thing! It makes financial sense for the company, even though it turns me off. Just own it.

This , good post. The issue I have is Spencer says what people want to hear, and flip flops on a dime. Just come out and say what your vision is no BS, unfortunately MS likes to Spin and deflect.

We can agree to disagree if you’re calling them “superficial genre similarities” lol but uh.... how the F is that trolling?