Spencer: We Have Just Signed Exclusives That Won’t Be Ready for 2-3 Years, No Point in Showing Them

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IamAwsome said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Stop signing contracts for exclusives. Build up your own studios spencer or be dominated by your competiton. Still has yet to figure out that what makes Sony and Nintendo development so special is that they have dedicated studios that fans depend on by name on their own.

Games like Lost Odyssey, Recore, and Scalebound were "signed" as opposed to developed internally. Doesn't make them any less second party. And building up your own studios isn't a preqequisite for bulking up first party output. Sony didn't build several of its studios and Nintendo didn't build Monolith. They bought them.

1 game didn't profit, the other sucked and the last one did not finished development. You're giving more reasons why Microsoft should create dedicated studios to making high quality first party. Nintnedo bought monilith because monilith had a high pedigree for having some of the best RPGs during the ps2 era. They are first party and that's that. Nintnedo was smart.