The Sorry State of Microsoft's First Party

[TheBlackNaruto]

sasquatchmontana said:

TheBlackNaruto said:

There goes that "blanket" statement...again lol. So if you are saying that then you MUST have also said that MS had nothing for the first 9 months as well right?

Actually, i'm pretty sure that was said for the first 9 months, i mean if Ori, State of Decay, Screamride don't count and considered a bare lineup...... if that's the way you want to play it, that's fine, but don't complain because the PS4 is in the same situation during the holidays with a half done collection and a late MOVE game. We all saw this coming.

I think other dude was right, as long as MS keep up funding games like Scalebound, Crackdown, Sunset, Ryse, Quantum Break, RE-Core, Phantom Dust, MS can, should and BE DEMANDED to keep that Minecraft/Gears/Forza/Halo cashcow running (and explore other genres like Horizon and Halo Wars and Holobuilder)

The middling guys like Rare and Lionhead can experiment until they find their cashcows, at which point they can be expoited on a bi-yearly (and later yearly basis when they move the spin-offs to external studios)

Then you can complain that "It's just another Halo/Forza/LionheadIP/RAREIP/Gears/Crackdown/Quantumbreak" holiday instead of the barren wasteland of PS4. That's so much better MI rite?

Worried?

Only about the amount of FIRST PARTY MS PUBLISHED GAMES I'LL NEED TO BUY OVER THE NEXT 18 MONTHS

Infact, forget anymore new ip. I'd take sequels of all of the above until 2021....anything over a barren holiday lineup.

So I have to ask now that you have said all of that. You said you would take all those sequels over a barren holiday lineup? Why? What is so important about the last 3 months of the year that you would take games then over having them through out the year? Does that make them better games? It isn't like the games that came out at the start of the year have disappeared so they still matter even around the Holidays. And it is not like Sony is not releasing anything during the Holiday period they are actually just adding more to the games they already have out.

So that logic just still baffles me and bothers me about having nothing for the Holiday. To each his or her own I guess. Me personally I do not care if a game is 1st, 2nd or 3rd party exclusive as long as it is a good game. And it is on tthe system a person chose then why does it being 1st, 2nd or 3rd party exclusive matter? I mean yes a company should have good first party studios but as long as the games are being delivered then I am all for it no matter what party they are.