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

[Eddie_Raja]

fireburn95 said:

Eddie_Raja said:

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.

There aren't any.  Xbox always was and will be a Halo-Gear-Fable-Forza factory.  Everything else is on PC, and hell even Fable is on PC.