Erase the used games, Kinect, and "Tier 2 territories" controversies from history, and the XB1 would have done a lot better. Assuming they don't make another big mistake, the XB2 should do better. 

God of War just shipped. The idea behind this is to hire all the inevitable, talented casualties of Sony Santa Monica.

I never thought that they would drop Xbox entirely. Just the console making side of it. Though, that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about 1st party support. They're going to start out decently strong, but if XB2 starts to sell poorly, it'll slow to a trickle again.

And erase the initial trouble with Cell and the $200 price difference, and 360 would have never gained as much ground as it did. Now, MS is back to dealing with a Sony/Playstation firing on all cylinders. Next gen is going to be even tougher on them if they don't have both a significant power and cost advantage. Something I doubt Sony is looking to allow them to have. 

Just shy of being MSN.

In other interview if I'm not wrong he also talked about how hard is to make a successful SP game, so perhaps considering MS history it will be MP.

Maybe he means the extras. Isn't it common in video game development to hire extra staff that is only temporary during development of the game? 

There are a lot of positions that are only used in specific portion of the development and that is a fluctuating workforce that we see hired and fired every game cycle.

Too many times to count over the years I have been here, lol.

Of course, gotta keep throwing shit at that wall until something sticks.

I hope their first game is "Lord of Combat" and it features the tale of a goddess and her daughter traveling to the highest tower with her dead husband's cigarettes.

I'm just trying to grasp what he's getting at, too.