If you want a proper response, take the time to word your questions in a coherent manner. I don't have a problem saying Microsoft can do a better job of making quality games, as can Sony. I do have a problem trying to decipher the nonsense you asked me, so I didn't bother. Hope that helps.

You can try to spin all you want but the only person in this thread trying to go to battle for their favorite toy is you.

See this one is tricky, because the first part of this is subjective, and the second part is nonsense.

For the first part, there is no black and white answer as to what their games "focus" on. Here are the Microsoft games I have played recently, lets say the last couple years:

Halo Wars 2 - What would you say this game focused on? It features a long campaign with a meaty story and a fantastic villain. But it also has pretty in depth MP with multiple modes. To me, this was a high quality SP title. I barely touched the MP, as is the case with virtually all strategy titles. There's plenty of meat on the bone for a SP gamer.

ReCore DE - Strictly a SP experience. No MP of any kind. A solid but pretty repetitive title, play through it just for the platform dungeons.

Cuphead - Another strictly SP title. Amazing game, hope it comes to PS4/5 some day.

Forza 7 - Another tricky title. It clearly has a large online following and a deep online experience, but it also has tons of SP content and can provide you with tons and tons of hours of entertainment without ever touching the MP. What is this to you? To me it's a quality SP offering.

Sea of Thieves - Complete GAAS title, similar to Destiny in that you can play it by yourself, but you're always online, and the core component of the gameplay experience is meant to be played socially.

State of Decay 2 - Another title that while it has a MP option, you can play through the entire thing in single player. Which I did. I have a lot of time in SoD2 and I've never done a co-op session. They did release a MP horde type expansion, but they also just released a meaty SP expansion. Another quality SP title.

Horizon 4 - Amazing racer with just a stupid amount of SP content. Where this one gets social is that every race and event and cup and challenge etc that you can do in SP, you can do in MP. But, you can just play alone. Which is what I do 95% of the time. This is a GAAS title with ever changing landscape and content, yet it's an amazing SP title. What would you say the focus of this title is? SP or MP?

Ashen - An RPG with a small element of MP, which is optional. A decent title, I didn't find it to be that good, but it is focused on SP.
Below - See above, although it has no MP at all. Wasn't too impressed but it's still installed, will get back to it. SP focused.

Crackdown 3 - Great title with strong emphasis on the SP. The tech behind the MP was a big deal but the actual content and gameplay itself was more of an afterthought, with the campaign getting most of the focus.

Void Bastards - Not a MS title, but they did a deal for day one on GamePass. Great SP only shooter type title.
Outer Wilds - See above. Exploration title, on many lists for GOTY.

I probably missed some on this list and the list below, but my point has been proven. Below are games they released or were involved in that I didn't play or didn't play enough of to make any opinion, and are SP focused:

Voodoo Vince remaster
Phantom Dust remaster
Super Lucky's Tale

Plus there are loads of SP games in the GamePass service. Bard's Tale Trilogy just launched. Slay the Spire, my GOTY so far, launches in tomorrow. You can continue to twist words and look for hidden messages in interviews to arrive at the opinion that they're abandoning SP titles, I'll continue actually playing the games and using the services they're offering and arrive at a different opinion.

Now, when it comes to "ignoring interviews", that's a bullshit statement because it assumes what you're claiming they say in interviews, is actually what they're saying. Because if we remember earlier here, you linked to an interview where the head of MS studios literally said there will always be a place for first party games but still tried to twist it around to secretly mean they're abandoning first party titles.

At the end of the day you have your own biased opinions and biased hopes of what MS does, and abandoning SP titles is clearly one of those hopes, because otherwise it makes no sense for you to ignore all the evidence to the contrary. And I didn't even mention the slew of studios they just bought, almost all of them having worked on loads of great SP titles.

Who promised to buy more studios? When? Microsoft has said a lot of stuff this gen and went back on a lot of stuff. That's kind of what happens when you reveal a product with one vision, have to change that vision to appease customers, the product fails to meet sales expectations and you have a complete shift not only in the Xbox division but in Microsoft itself. Lets not forget that not only did the leadership in the Xbox division get shuffled around, but Microsoft itself changed leadership.

Furthermore it's not as if Phil can say on Monday "yeah we need more studios" and then Wednesday go to StudioMart and snatch up five or six studios. These things take months and years to happen. Either way, they needed more studios, they got them. Not sure why you're upset about it?

Woah what a shock, I listed a bunch of SP games that happen to have MP and detailed each one logically explaining my opinion and you just say “lol u inflated the list”. How about you explain how the list was inflated? Bear in mind when you’re spouting about how this game A or game B are MP “focused”, you’re only explaining an opinion. So don’t say someone is ignoring something that is only your opinion.

Every game I listed that has a MP component can be fully played and enjoyed without ever touching multiplayer. Having a MP offering doesn’t make a game a MP game.

Gears of War is about to come out and it’s also SP focused with a big MP to me. To others it’s a MP title with a SP. Just like for many, Uncharted is a MP title only. That doesn’t change what the focus of the game was, only how different gamers consume the game differently.

When you’re talking about “the death of SP”, it’s fucking hilarious to ignore that all of these games have meaty SP offerings that the devs clearly put a lot of focus on.

Also you’re only proving my point with these interview links. Another interview where a MS big wig says SP gaming isn’t dead and they look for ways to continue to invest and that SP will always be here. And yet you want to use it as evidence that they think SP is dead.

So the question on if it's MP focused or SP isn't dependent on the focus of the dev or most players but yourself? That makes any comparison pointless, since you can as you did put Sony games as MP and MS as SP.

It is evidence that SP isn't the focus of the games MS release and invest heavily on.

I already said it’s a pointless debate because it’s subjective. You can’t factually state one way or the other what the focus of the devs were.  You didn’t make the game. I didn’t make the game. I merely listed the games MS has provided me and went in depth about the SP/MP components. 

Again, what on that list is wrong? Where is it “inflated”? I highly doubt you’ve played a majority of the games on that list, but please explain how there is a clear MP focus in a game like Crackdown 3 or State of Decay 2 or Horizon 4.

And I didn’t factually say anything about a Sony game being MP focused. I simply stated that in some people’s opinion, a game like Uncharted 4 or LoU are MP titles and they don’t even touch the SP. 

I listed the games MS has released lately. There’s no huge focus on MP at the expense of SP in any of them. Feel free to explain how it’s wrong, it would be a funny read.

The list is inflated because you put games that majority of players go for the MP as if they were SP focused because you played more of the SP or because they could be enjoyed playing SP only. That is why I said that even CoD could be played as SP only for almost all of the games. Very few in percentage of current games have SP or MP only, most have both. But it is clear to see where the focus come.

GTS have a campaign mode and you can play over 100h of SP without doing all, but it is clear that they want e-sport and MP on the title. CoD as well, Gear and Halo same.

All I can say to that is that you’re allowed to be wrong.

Just look at your CoD posts. Game sells tens of millions every year yet the online player count is never that high. Whether you want to admit it or not, tons of people buy CoD for the campaign. At least, the ones that have a campaign.

If you’re trying to tell me most people who bought Crackdown or Forza or State of Decay 2 did so for online play.... lol. The only person actually inflating lists here is you. By the way, Gears and Halo are the same. Huge emphasis on MP, but huge emphasis on SP as well. Plenty buy both of those games and never play much MP.

Your argument literally is “SP is dead to MS. Yeah, you play all of their games SP but others don’t”. If I can play all these games perfectly fine in SP, then SP is clearly not dead lol.

Keep reaching though, friend. Still waiting on some actual depth and logic in reply to my list.

Majority of people who play Gears of War, Halo, Forza Motorsport etc play single player campaigns. You only need to check achievement percentages to know this. That's why these games have huge SP focus. And there's a dedicated MP crowd too.

There's room & demand for both SP & MP games and nothing suggest Microsoft would focus on only one of them.

The market seems to be changing towards a more mobile-oriented, pick-up-and-play approach. The way things are going, the next Xbox could be their last, or at the very least, the last home console from Microsoft as we know it. (By that I mean that my prediction would be that if the next home console from Microsoft doesn't result in MS dropping out of the console manufacturing business, then the only way I imagine them staying in would be because of some very large, impactful changes to the experience.) I suppose the same could be said for Sony as well, but I think that if Xbox folded their hand, and allowed Sony to absorb most of their players, it would allow Sony to thrive in the smaller, home console market.

I'm hesitant to submit this because I mean no ill will. Let me make this part clear: I don't desire to see Microsoft drop out of the home console market. Rather, if I had to predict what's going to happen, with my limited knowledge, and garbage track record, this was my prediction.

Also, Microsoft has deep pockets, and I don't see them disappearing entirely, but I can see them switching exclusively to a games as a service model and dropping the hardware that comes along with it in lieu of something like Stadia. I can see Sony doing the same, and not due to suffering sales, but rather just because that's the direction the market is headed.

is that still true today?

arnt Halo 4, halo 5, and Gears 4, like under 8hours to beat with avg gameplay?

Thats on the short side, I'd say both Halo & Gears, are heavily Multiplayer focused games (at the cost of single player).

Okay I went and checked (howlongtobeat), and Gears 1,2,3... where around the 9-10 hour mark.

So them dropping down to ~8hours of gameplay for single player isnt a "huge" loss.
Maybe its just me, my perception was the multiplayer has gotten bigger and bigger focus.