Phil Spencer: Fewer 3rd party exclusives, focus is on 1st party

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DerNebel said:

Sounds good, bring it.

Best case scenario (out of their perspective) they actually start making some cool shit that makes me buy an X1, worst case I at least don't have to worry about a multiplat series I like going to Xbox exclusively.

My sentiment exactly, the way they started this generation, I was afraid they'll continue paying to keep games away from gamers. We were in luck that Sony completely dominates them, so it became prohibitively expensive to pull the Tomb Raider crap over and over again.

Sure, they can afford to do it, but it has become really tough to justify:

"So you paid $150 million for [multiplat franchise]?"

"Yeah, it was coming to XOne anyway, but we paid so PS4 owners cannot play it!"

"Not a huge amount to buy a popular IP!"

"No, not the IP, just this one game. It was being made multiplat, all we did was pay to cancel the PS4 version"

"Oh..I see! GTFO, You're fired!"