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Faelco said:
Mr Puggsly said:

No, not really. Quality stuff is coming from MS 1st parties. Why employee weak studios when great 3rd parties can do the work?

MS and Sony both have strong titles thanks to 3rd parties.

MS is having less and less third party exclusives, and even less and less third party games (more and more PS4/PC games thanks to the PS4 lead). They need more first party : it was already the case before, it's even more the case now. They shouldn't close any studio not developing Halo, Gears of War or Forza.

These games' sales are even decreasing, so no, MS doesn't have strong first party games (at least saleswise) and not a lot of strong third party games either. Their exclusive line up was already not that good and it's shrinking. 

They don't need those studios to make exclusives.

Killer Instinct, Sunset Overdrive, Crackdown, Quantum Break, Scalebound, and Halo Wars 2 are just some 3rd party developed exclusives.

Ah, you think sales are equal to quality? Okay, this conversation is over.



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iceland said:

I prefer quality over quantity but MS has like 4-5 (AAA) studios .

In my opinion, MS has both quality and quanity in the exclusives department.

But this isn't a converstation I want to have. Lets say this is subjective.



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So what is Xbox left with now? The new gears studio, halo with 343 and forza with turn 10? I would mention rare but then they haven't really done anything notable in ages.

If that's all the platform is left with for first party exclusives, that doesn't sound very good.



Mr Puggsly said:

They don't need those studios to make exclusives.

Killer Instinct, Sunset Overdrive, Crackdown, Quantum Break, Scalebound, and Halo Wars 2 are just some 3rd party developed exclusives.

Ah, you think sales are equal to quality? Okay, this conversation is over.

Why not ? What makes your money any better than the money from the others that think differently ?



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I'm glad to see the Hololens studios removed from the website. They have nothing to do with XBOX and far too often were confused as console dev studios. Chances are it was just the web dev cleaning out clutter, not the actual studios being closed.

Lionhead, Press Play, and Team Dakota being shut down is the actual news story. There were reports that Dakota disbanded a short bit ago but this confirms it.



UltimateGamer1982 said:
So what is Xbox left with now? The new gears studio, halo with 343 and forza with turn 10? I would mention rare but then they haven't really done anything notable in ages.

If that's all the platform is left with for first party exclusives, that doesn't sound very good.

If you want a real answer

343i

coalition

turn10

rare (counts whatever your opinion may be)

decisive

mojang

.... pretty much it at this point.



Man, over the last week or so it feels like a funeral precession going on over there (MS). I don't know how anyone can read this stuff day in and day out and not see bad things on the horizon.



Mr Puggsly said:

They don't need those studios to make exclusives.

Killer Instinct, Sunset Overdrive, Crackdown, Quantum Break, Scalebound, and Halo Wars 2 are just some 3rd party developed exclusives.

Ah, you think sales are equal to quality? Okay, this conversation is over.

That list makes me sad.



Protendo said:
Mr Puggsly said:

They don't need those studios to make exclusives.

Killer Instinct, Sunset Overdrive, Crackdown, Quantum Break, Scalebound, and Halo Wars 2 are just some 3rd party developed exclusives.

Ah, you think sales are equal to quality? Okay, this conversation is over.

That list makes me sad.

One man's garbage is another man's red hot erection.

I don't know what to tell you, I've really enjoyed X1's exclusives and I look forward to more of what's coming.



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