The Sorry State of Microsoft's First Party

[Chris Hu]

Leynos said:

Chris Hu said:

Well the majority of people that buy Microsoft and Sony consoles don't buy them because of a strong first party lineup they buy them mostly to play third party titles Nintendo consoles are the only ones that get bought mostly because of their strong first party games.

Given the lackluster sales of Xbox One I'd say that's not as true for Xbox. Sony yeah. 360 was doing its best when Halo and Gears were hot IPs. Traditionally true for Nintendo and still true for Switch. I believe Switch is the least reliant on that given how good its third-party support is. It is so loaded with 3rd party exclusives and Japanese AA games. Perfect indie machine. Yeah First [arty selling amazing but other stuff selling well enough to keep supporting it. Not been the case for them in a long long time. MS is clear the understood they need much stronger first-party output and stuff. Hence buying so many studios.

8 of the top 10 best selling 360 games where third party same thing applies to the X1.  The original X Box has four first party games and some third party exclusives in its top ten best selling games.  So yeah the 360 didn't really sell better because of better first party games.  X1 sold a lot less then the 360 is mostly due to the terrible launch.