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

[fireburn95]

Eddie_Raja said:

fireburn95 said:
He's starting to become what I don't like, too much talk and little action. There's no evidence of a focus on first party when two of your first parties were not given the freedom to work on their new IP's and became a gears/halo factory, and so far apart from forza where have all the first party games been? Not one retail exclusive this year, not one!

Exactly.  When Sony had trouble in 2006 and 2007, they bought up and pumped money into first party studios to compensate - and because they knew it would also help them a ton in the long-term.  

It just doesn't seem like MS is doing this.

In that interview, he is talking about the first party support for this year. But when you think about it, it's sequels of the four titles they were mocked for for constantly having on xbox 360. The fables, the halos, the gears and the forzas. Yes they need to make those four, but they severely lack in first party prowess, it just doesn't seem like the studios are given the freedom to create what they want. 343 is now gonna be a halo factory, and black tusk were working on a new ip and have had to scrap that for gears. Where are the titles that actually give a reason why this console is better than the 360 when the 360 was released.