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

[DonFerrari]

Bristow9091 said:

Bandorr said:
Clever. Now when you cancel something, no one will care because there was no hype.

Also does that mean there will be no new exclusives for 2 or 3 years?

It's funny that I was thinking exactly the same thing as I read it lol :P 

Microsoft really need to bulk up in the first party department, I mean sure they've got enough money to just buy third party exclusives, and it's silly that they don't do that instead of just buying timed exclusivity... but just in general, they need to figure out a system for getting more games onto their console.

Cheaper to buy timed and the bulk of the impact is in the first weeks, so a year exclusive is quite sufficient.

But sure, they could invest in buying the studio (but some have analysed that is more cost efficient to buy timed than to buy studio). Funny enough I remember users saying that MS invested so much on 1st party studios in the beggining of the gen that they would output more 1st party than Sony. But we basically saw none of it.