I'm an Xbox fan but I'm not feeling good about MS's 1st party.

I look forward to more Halo, Fable, Gears, Forza, and maybe other classic IPs. But they just aren't have much look creating new IPs, although some have been enjoyable.

I can't help but look at PlayStation and think Xbox needs some of what's happening there. However, I have enjoyed numerous X1 exclusives and BC is just magnificent. I really hope MS has big plans we don't know about yet.

I suppose that is what consolidation does for you. Dropping all Vita support to hit PS4's support out of the park is paying off. And to be fair Nintendo is doing the same thing with only going with the Switch for the future.

Of course their are minor investments like PSVR and a few 3DS games out there, but they are miniscule compared to the recent effort put forth into PS4 and Switch.

The thing to remember about Microsoft as a business entity is that their philosophy is about what they want to push, not about what the customer wants. They have goals and plans that they want to dictate to the industry so that it ends up in a place where they have more control. They want to create an environment that is, first and foremost, favorable to them.

They want to be Apple, they want to be Steam. Unfortunately for them, they don't have a monopoly to leverage the way they do with Windows. In the gaming market, the consumer still has a choice, which is why it probably legitimately surprised them when consumers turned against their vision for gaming with the original Xbox One and Kinect.

Now it's GaaS.

They really need to rethink their guiding principles for Xbox. It's fine to nudge forward what you want but that can't be the entirety of your efforts. You still have to offer the customer products that meet their needs and desires or else they'll look elsewhere. At least, that's how it works when there is viable competition.

What Phil is essentially saying is that XBoX fans need to wait. 

You never know, but if XB had let Bungie create Destiny, based on how Destiny is doing at this point in time, it wouldn't be much better than things are now for XB anyway, so. This could be part of the reason XB wouldn't allow it, because of the possibility of failure and wasted input costs, but it may also simply be that based on so many recent cancelled games, that MS feels growing XB first parties and IP is an unnecessary cost to accomplishing the overall goal.

Watching how things have played out so far for XB, reminds me of dating. If the girl ends up liking you, she typically will mimic things about you to not only show interest, but create connections that would be meaningful to you. Most of the time however, over time, you end up finding out it's mostly BS, and she's really not into most of those things, and is different than you've come to know, and not exactly on the same path as you are. That is what I see with XB at the moment. They slowly set up their console mimicry, only to then show their true colors, which is not the typical console path, beyond just innovation.

Too many companies use titles, brands, entire sectors, etc, to gain entry into a market, only to end up changing things completely, to accomplish their goal. While you can't know exactly if this is what XB is doing, it most certainly is a possibility. Trying to hold PS back in terms of first and third party exclusives is not only extremely expensive, but almost a lost cause. This has also led to the slow loss of strong third party support and marketing for XB1. Using online and services to do so now, is another story however, since that battle is less decided and still ongoing.

It could be that XB is simply lost and trying to find their way, but based on many of their decisions over the years, after seeing other companies already make some of those bad decisions, it's just hard to believe that it's all just stupid mistakes. 

Xbox has been around for nearly 20 years. How much time do they need?

After nearly two decades, we still only have halo, gears, forza, and the occasional second or third party exclusive like sunset overdrive and quantum break, which both totally failed to turn into new franchises for Xbox.

At this point, we may not get anything worthwhile 1P till late next gen or the gen after. Just look how long it’s taken crackdown to come out and we still haven’t seen much of that game since it was first revealed in 2013-2014.

How exactly? The third party support is more robust than its ever been.

Well if you look at the third party support the 360 gained and had in general vs the PS3, then take the type of third party support the XB1 has had vs the PS4, and what the 360 had, it's pretty clear that XB1 isn't getting the same kind of backing the 360 did. This is mostly due to the lack of sales for the XB1 platform in comparison to the PS4, as well as Switch now, and that lack of sales is partially due to first party IP and exclusivity. Many of the top AAA third party titles have also went with PS4 for their marketing because of their larger user base. Just because the XB1X is getting some third party game patches doesn't mean it's got strong support.

Took Sony 10 years? Do what? No, Sony has always been pumping out good 1st party stuff. Sure, they hit a slight stall at the beginning of the PS3 era, which we can chalk up to HD development learning, which also happened to Nintendo.

It's just the same old BS, journalists making excuses for Xbox, just like with the power disparity from the beginning of the gen. MS actually started strong with 1st party development this gen. It's just Xbox is no longer a #1 priority for MS, so they are cutting down on 1st party development and on buying 3rd party exclusives. Maybe they'll try again next gen, but if XB2 experiences a similar fate, they will ramp down, again. And if it performs worse, they may just be done altogether. At least as far as consoles are concerned.

Phil or his bosses got impatient. Short term gains vs long term gains. Phil probably has a non-gamer boss who doesn't understand the importance of investing studios and IPs.