I´ve been noticing for a while that MS´s interest in single player games seems to be waning compared to online multiplayer games.You´re right, there´s Horizon, Nier, Zelda, Nioh, Persona 5, etc...all single player games and all reviewing quite well.3rd parties are all over online mp games so maybe they could differentiate themselves by having a good catalogue of exclusive sp games, like Sony does....thing is, for all we know Phil might want to, or might have wanted to at some point, but the real decision makers don´t seem to have an interest in doing so.

Billions? Are you sure? I don't know about that lately. Anyway, they could do much better. Phil has done well, but maybe someone else needs to take the wheel now. To take them to the next level. 

Hes better than Mattrick, but he still has not fixed Microsoft's first party problem and keeps relying on third party to create IP (which means they are beholden to their effort and talents for sequels. They should've learend their lesson after they bought the Gears IP from Epic. Creative studios dont like to stay focused on one franchise forever.

What are you talking about? There are still people playing COD MW2 on the xbox mp wise alone. There might be a lot of people playing it sp wise too still.

Microsofts bread and butter isnt in gaming like their competition,  so if a game is not selling well then it spells a problem for the gamers who have supporting their titles. Recore and Quantum Break didnt sell so hot which has prompted Remedy to go multiplatform (I hope Capcom and Square Enix have learned their lessons as well). Nintendo and Sony have identities in delivering certain titles. Nintendo's revolves around single player, Platforming and party games and Sonys revolves around story driven experiences, sports and third person shooters. 

The problem resides here as Micosoft and Spencer respond to the issue as businessment first and gamers second:

1) The quality of games are not on par with expectation

2) Bad marketing

3) Audience that is not drawn to single player experiences unless it comes from third party.

I think its becoming evident that without Microsoft have a hot new single player IP their gamers are primarily dependent on third party. They are trying to emulate the service based experience like games in the vein of GTA.

I dont think Spencers job is on the line, but this E3 will be a big one. Xbox as a brand is a very controversial brand, because they dont opperate like a traditional console brand. It seems like their endeavors are to push PC and console extremely close together almost void of differences.

Eh Xbox sales still less than half of PS4. Very little Japanese support. Cancelled 3 games people were looking forward to. Damaged releations with a major 3rd party in Japan which they are in need more of not less. While PS4 has dominated with exclusives so far this year and Switch making a lot of buzz and sales with Zelda and a Wii U port. They are eating Xbox's lunch. MS has made little effort so far to respond. All they really did was stealth release Halo Wars 2...or at least felt like a stealth release. Better than Don yes but still seems like he's not doing a great job. Phil feels more like a yes man who is a PR guy while others calls the shots and he is just the public face.

I'm not sure if billions is the right term but yea xbox live makes money.

I dunno why you want them to put a full stop to pandering to the PC market. They've had their hand in that one for years. After having ignored it during the Xbox to 360 era, they finally see it growing bigger and bigger, that they no longer want to ignore it let alone have anyone else take it away from them (which Steam did for the most part). They came from that market, it makes sense for them to do business with it.

I don't see a world where they build games exclusively on PC and exclusively on Xbox, they just aren't in that business anymore, it's all about building games that can be played on both, for different markets to tap into. Also costs them more money to make games separately for the two markets than it does for one.

And even with the ossified lineup it's still doing better than it's predecessor and this is not an incredibly complicated thing. Seriously, I know the guy isn't the best, but he's doing alright. Definitely wished it was Peter Moore though... 

Hasn't that been proven to be false?