Microsoft is investing in their first party studios like never before.

[Jay520]

Mr Puggsly said:

Lucas-Rio said:
Microsoft has by far the worst first and second party studio among the 3 manufacturer.

They don't care about developping games. They closed their best studio, Ensemble Studio without any reason. They turned Rare into a joke.

It will take a very long time until they are taken seriously as a developper.

Nonsense, Halo a lone puts them above Sony in my book

Rare has played a pretty big roll in the 360 appealing to casual audiences. Something PS3 has been struggling to do. So I'd hardly say Rare is a joke.

It's not really nonsense. When you try to look at it from a hardcore gamer's perspective, assuming Lucas-Rio is a hardcore gamer, then it's quite reasonable for one to make the claim that MS 1st & 2nd party lineup is the weakest. Opinions aside, one can objectively make the case that Microsoft makes the least amount of games for the hardcore gamer. Of course these games are good, maybe better than all of Sony's lineup combined, but for the sake of the argument, objectively, Sony trumps Microsoft in the quantity department.

As far as quality is concerned, that's all subjective. However, if someone makes the claim that Sony's lineup is superior on the basis of quality and quantity, then their opinion is at least backed up by some objectivity, and it certainly shouldn't be deemed 'nonsense'. Compare that with your opinion, which is based solely on quality alone, literally. You say the quality of ONE game trunps the quality AND quantity of the opposing console's ENTIRE lineup. Your opinion is much less objective than Lusas's. In fact, I'd say Lucas Rio's opinion makes a lot more 'sense' then yours, objectively.

Also, I'd say Kinect as a device was a much bigger 'role' at attracting casuals. Rare is the dev of some successful Kinect games, yes, but those games sold more on the basis of being Kinect games, Rare really didn't have to do much. If your talking about standard games for the casual audience, then I point you towards Media Molecule as a Sony dev attracting the casuals as much as Rare.