Well 1st party internal studios taking care of Halo, Gears and Forza sure are critical to Xbox. Those are the exclusive games that sell and Xbox audience wants to play.
I played Ryse, Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break, ReCore etc and enjoyed them but for some reason it looks like majority of Xbox gamers didn't want to buy them. So in a way gamers voted with their wallets and that put Microsoft in a confusing spot with 1st/2nd party games I think.
I'm good playing Halo + Gears + multiplatform stuff but I would be lying if I told you I don't want them to come up with new IPs. Hopefully they'll keep trying but what kind a game would do well on Xbox then? Should they just try to make a new dudebro shooter or something?








