Xbox One and Tomb Raider - An admission from MS that they cannot compete with Sony and Nintendo First party?

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celador said:

Titanfall, Sunset Overdrive, Dead Rising 3, Ryse, Scalebound - All 'exclusives' all made by other studios with no input from MS other than money.  Now Tomb raider can be added to the list.

The majority of MS's first party studios are doing the same things they have been doing for a decade - Halo, Forza, Gears, Fable and more Halo.  Black Tusk where making a new IP,then got shafted and are now working on another Gears game after MS bought the rights.

Nintendo and Sony also have third party exclusives, but not to the same extent as MS, and a lot of the time they are also involved with development, like Studio Japan with Bloodborne and Nintendo with Hyrule Warriors.

If MS are as committed to the Xbox brand going forward, why don't they spend some money on another first party studio or two, instead of paying developers not to release games on other systems?  Is this an admission they cannot compete on a first party level? And if not why aren't they even trying?

You dont know how involved they are in development.

The majority of Sony first studios are doing what they have been for nearly a decade. God Of War, LBP, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, Infamous, Killzone.

Its not paying developers to release games on other systems, its paying them to develop for their systems.

I make the arguement that buying up studios is worse than paying a studio to make an exclusive because you take a whole 3rd party away from the other system.