Opinion: Is Microsoft Running Out Of Exclusives?

[Normchacho]

Ka-pi96 said:

Ali_16x said:

Microsoft and even Sony have announced their games 1-2 years before they release, it's normal. And if that's not enough, check my post above talking about Microsoft's recent "14 first party games", all they have is Halo 6, Forza 7, Rare's Second game, and 1 unknown game. That is for late 2017/2018 and beyond. I'm saying, there will be a time probably 2018 when there will barely be any exclusives out on Microsofts system.

Yeah, but there's also been a lot of criticism of that approach, so it's certainly possible they've decided not to announce things too far in advance anymore.

Besides, let's not forget that a game doesn't need to be 1st party to end up exclusive.

I think the issue being brought up here is they mentioned that they only have 14 "first party" games in development, and they seem to be using a pretty loose definition of first party.

The vast majority of them are games that have already been announced, and that means that it's likely that something like 12 of those 14 games will be out by the end of next year.

So what happens then? They haven't even started working on games to replace the ones that are launching. Best case scenario is the first 6 months of 2018 is empty because the started working on games...basicially right after that statement was made and development is quick and painless.