And PC. Only Starcraft is left from the golden ages of RTS. Man, how I miss Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Warcraft and Empire Earth.

True, These easy to play MOBA took over :(

Yup, sadly. :(

Oh, I forgot to add Command & Conquer to the list of missed games. What a fantastic franchise!

Just like the last time he was talking about MS and 1st party games - less talk Phil, more Fable 4, that 'small' IP that had its last entry at 5+ millions sold.

Well saying Quantum break, Scalebound and Crackdown are all from the "third person action" genre is really stretching it, isn't it?

A RTS is not diversity???  Exactly how manyy of those do you see coming to another console?

Phil Spencer is a likable guy, but I'm starting to feel that he's simply paying lip service to Xbox fans.

He says his strategy is more about "first party franchises, and investing in franchises we own" and "we should be pushing harder on genre and control" but I see very little evidence of these strategies.

Halo Wars 2 is a step in the right direction, but I want to see Spencer and company follow through more completely on these ideas.

I agree with this but then again, he needs to actually follow through.

The 1st party games and deals were made under his watch. He was the head of first party studios since 2010(+/-) until 2014.

ReCore is MS's, so is Scalebound, Ori, Screamride, QB, etc... all new ambitious IPs investment.

Killer Instinct was brought back, Crackdown and Gears is being given a proper budget and staff to be worked on.

In a year a half span, we gonna have a galore of AAA games owned by MS gracing Xbox Ones, which is more than what Nintendo produced for WiiU. The biggest 1st party producer according to most.

I think this idea is good. That is the way for people to not look at them as a "shooter box". I hope this "shooter box" reputation doesn't hurt them when they try to expand their diversity.