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Machiavellian on 16 June 2017
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
jason1637 said:

Well does it really matter who makes them? We are still getting games and if its a hit MS could just create a Studio like they did with Halo, and Gears.

But you have to remember that gears wasn't first party from the start. Micosoft was publishing third party to to keep it exclusive. There is no development standard (which is traditional in he console race) or beloved ms studios outside of turn ten for ms.

There are three diferenct types of exclusives you can do.  You get a talented studio to make one of your IPs, you do an exclusive deal like Sunset overdrive or Gears, or you have your 1st party.  You can consider them to be 1st and 2nd party since they are making games exclusive for your system.  When all said and done if you own the IP then it really does not matter if the studio is in house.  Really if exclusives are what people are so pinned about then the developer is only one piece.  The main piece is that MS owns the IP.