And Timed exclusive deals then...That's pretty sad

I'm pretty sure this year's lackluster showing in regards to new games could be blamed on them announcing their big titles too far in advance last year, and also saving some heavy hitters for the full scorpio reveal next year. Truth is they don't have as many studios as Nintendo and Sony, so we can't really expect as many new announcements anyway.

Based on the responses you're getting, this was a terrible thread to begin with. This is not a "big topic" as you say. You're OP has no merit to it, as many people have shown, which leads many people and myself to believe this is a troll thread and you're trying to get a rise out of people or it's clickbait. Whichever one it is, it's not good.

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Where did she say that most were unannounced? As far as I can tell, this is the only part of the interview she talks about the games they currently have in development.

I head first party game publishing for Xbox One or Windows 10 or any of our platforms. We right now have, i think, 14 games in development. We talked about four of those this morning – Killer Instinct, Scalebound, State of Decay 2, and ReCore. We also have Crackdown 3, which we announced has now been moved into 2017, and there are a few other ones that aren’t quite ready to be talked about yet.

Phil Spencer stated, they wanted this E3 to focus on games arriving this year and some early next year. Gamescom is for games a little bit later down the line. Don't believe me, look it up.

I'm not talking about 2014-2016, I'm talking beyond that, once these known games are released, going by that 14 1st party stuff, they don't have much outside Forza 7, Halo 6, and Rare's Second game. Pretty much late 2017/2018, I don't think Microsoft will have many games.

Oh so most of the announced games that we already know of don't count? We know of 10 first party games.

Halo Wars 2, Sea of Thieves, Gears of War 4, Crackdown 3, Scalebound, Minecraft, Forza Horizon 3, ReCore, State of Decay 2, and Killer Instinct.

That's 10, we also know about Forza 7 and Halo 6. And we just learned that Rare has a second game. That leaves 4 unannounced games with 3 we know of and one completely unknown. She said games that were in development, now most games 2-3 years and if they're including games that are just months in development, which I see no reason for them not to be, 4 games for late 2017/2018 and maybe beyond. That isn't a lot.

What did I say that was wrong about Forza Horizon 3 being announced? Tell me, how did anyone not see it coming. You think a yearly Call of Duty announcement means anything? Nope, because it's annual, just like Forza. It's announcement means nothing. 

State of Decay was an incredible game? Most would say it's a average/good game, not great or amazing. And as I said, this is about announcements, not the quality of the game. How isn't State of Decay 2 an indie game? Ori was an indie game, doesn't mean it was bad. You're acting like the announcement for State of Decay 2 was amazing, groundbreaking, or even a little bit surprising. Unless you could tell me why those 2 game announcement were anything but average, don't bother replying.

8 of them are unannounced? Lol....

The responce I'm getting is pretty normal I would say. This is not a big topic? How aren't exclusives, for consoles, not a big topic. My OP has no merit? I'm not sure how. Unless you could tell me how a yearly racing game announcement, a timed exclusive, and a indie title are huge, I'm pretty sure what I'm saying has merit. And I even backed what I said by comparing this E3 with their last 2 E3, which both had atleast 3 "huge" announcements.

I was never talking about Xbox exclusives, just Microsoft's exclusive. What Microsoft is doing with Xbox and PC makes sense, those are both their platforms. I actually do think exclusives are important. Just this E3, I saw a bunch of comments on YouTube videos like Spiderman, Horizon, God of War talking about how they're finally going to get a PS4. Maybe just not 1 game is a system seller but I would say all those 3 games combined, yes they're system sellers.

Xbox gamers love their small selection, nothing wrong with that. And MS has no plans to take on Europe and beyond i'm afraid, NA will always come first.

Yes, I actually just saw that. Now we'll have too see if those games are "big". But it doesn't make sense, they're going to skip announcing their "big" games at E3, the biggest gaming event, just a month later to a smaller one? That doesn't make sense.

Yeah it was quite lackluster, maybe they will something announce in gamescom