The Forza series has been the rock for Microsoft, but everything else is pretty shaky. Halo 5 and Gears 4 weren't bad games, but they underperformed compared to their predecessors. I thought Gears 4 would fare better than Halo 5 because the Gears franchise didn't suffer from an MCC-esque multiplayer fiasco. However, initial sales from the UK and US revealed that the franchise is on a significant decline. Other games Microsoft published didn't do too well either. NPD results showed that Quantum Break and ReCore sold rather low numbers. It is rather serious for the former because Microsoft showcased QB since E3 2013 and with the live-action scenes, the budget must've been huge. Project Spark got shut down and Fable Legends was cancelled along with the closure of Lionhead Studios. Same thing happened to Project Knoxville and Press Play Studios. The Phantom Dust remake also got cancelled, though Microsoft is partially rectifying that with a remaster.
It's not all that bad as 2017 looks more promising. Sea of Thieves looks pretty good and so does Halo Wars 2. Like the OP, I'm not really impressed with Scalebound and on top of that, the Xbox One userbase is generally indifferent towards JRPGs. Frankly, I think it needs a Steam release like Quantum Break in order to sell reasonably well. Cuphead looks really nice, though I can get that on Steam when it comes out.
