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

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Goatseye said:

twintail said:
so basically they can't afford the 3rd party games like they used to because if ps4 sales.

good to invest in 1st party but this is being done because there is no alternate .

They began investing $1 billion dollars in video games in 2013.

Rethink your sentence again.

Just because they can afford it doesn't mean it's cost effective. Which is really what twintail is alluding to. With PS4 basically dominating the console market and third party sales (check out the numbers for Batman AK for a quick reference) there is no way it is cost effective for MS nor the developers to take the money to make a title exclusive.

There really is no alternative and that's actually okay. In fact I'd say it is great. Perhaps we'll see more diversity from MS beyond the Halo/Gears/Forza rehash going forward and that can only be a good thing for the Xbox brand.