Perhaps I wasn't clear. Yep these 3 games certainly aren't product of "quantity first". Their quality isn't fruit of rushing production or wanting to increase output. They all had bad reviews (and also have a lot of people that love them) but that have nothing to do with short development time.

They are focusing too much on quantity with backwards compatibility.

I don't know but right now they lack big AAA games. And to be honest big AAA games dont make sense when you are giving them out for free with gamepass day one. At most I see them do 1 big game a year just to to make it seem worth it.

It’s almost flattering when people think every Xbox gamer has GP and even if we are subscribers that we don’t buy anymore games outright. 

The 1 AAA game per year sounds about right for the Xbox One, but next gen looks much brighter. This year will have Halo Infinite and Forza 8, with all the A-AA throughout the year :)

If you wana twisted in that way, sure have at it.

But no, I dont think every xbox gamer has gamepass and also don't think they dont buy games. They don't buy first party games as they are included.

Wish in itself not bad as consoles work in that manner as getting you into the ecosystem and from there you buy softwate and they profit. So for that reason consoles are sold at cost or a small lost. To get people in also they have first party games which are meant to push gamers to buy the console as theese games tend to be better as they have to not only sell copys but also sell consoles. But that's the issue companys are suposed to profit from these games. If they take a loss on hardware and a loss on software its harder to  up for it in third party software or subs. I mean it could work its just they will be starting with a handicap. Miss profits that could have gone to investing in more games or hardware improvements or acquisitions or subsidizes or what ever else. 

Days Gone was one of the few AAA Sony exclusives that didn't get critical acclaim, but you can't argue the quality of Sony's exclusives this gen. What I'm trying to say is that both companies have roughly the same number of studios but their focus is completely different. Just look at this year. It's basically TLOU2, Ghost of Tsushima, Dreams, FF7, Nioh 2, Death Stranding etc. vs a bunch of filler titles for GP and Halo. Some of those AA games will probably turn out great and get good reviews. But how many people, who bought a Xbox to play Halo or Gears, would honestly get super excited and buy a game like Ori? Sure, it's a quality game, but it barely sold 1.5m copies. 

Now, if people can play Ori for free through GP, I'm sure many will give it a go, just like I did. My point, however, is that MS doesn't seem to be focusing on games that core gamers would pay full price for and instead are going for quantity to fill up GP. I mean Gears Tactics looks pretty cool, but would you buy it for full retail price?

I realize this may come across as an atheist speaking in a cathedral. Halo and Gears don't have the pull they did in the 360 era.  Halo series sales have been slipping. MS would not even report on Gears 5 sales and aside from being a bigger open area it still plays like a cover shooter. Something that feels dated now.  Those series only seem to mainly appeal to existing fans now and not bringing in new fans. One of the reasons more Forza, Gears, Halo became a meme this gen. They will convince Xbox fans to buy Series X but I don't see Halo convincing others get an Xbox over PS5. That's not Hellblade either as the first only sold 1 million across several platforms combined. I just see a list of games that convince Xbox fans to buy an Xbox and will have some stuff to tide them over. SO far I don't see anything that says buy Xbox, not PS5.

MS is releasing more than "Game pass filler." The majority are high quality titles that have been in development for years. It started out this generation with MS not releasing enough games, but now that games are coming, they are "Filler." Should we ignore games like Dreams and Death stranding because they don't appeal to the vast majority? TLOU2 might be delayed to next year which is easily Sony's biggest title this generation.

The best part about Gamepass is how gamers are trying games they wouldn't have ever before. It lets MS release great games regardless of genre. I would rather see that than MS only focusing on games they know will push sales. That was MS biggest issue this generation and the end of last gen imo. Btw, MS core games isn't the same as Sony's. Age of Empires, Minecraft, Flight Sim, Halo, Gears, Forza all show a wide diversity of games, and all are big sellers. Gears Tactics and Minecraft Dungeons could become extremely popular especially on the PC side of things. 

I think you seem to misinterpret what is usually considered a "multiplayer focused" game when this stuff is brought up. I guess that usually people here use this term to describe the games that are not "the games that can't be played solo" which seems like your definition of the term but to describe games that have multiplayer component have an impact on overall game design. And unfortunately more often in a negative way. Like, you say that Halo 5 and Gears are not multiplayer focused games because they have SP and MP but they are. The worst thing about Halo 5 was the forced co op thing which is the result of multiplayer component of the game having an impact on game design. This game was designed around co op mechanic so it didn't scale well to play solo. Because just filling stupid AI bots instead of real people is not doing the stuff right in this case. 343 need to learn from Gearbox as Borderlands series handle this stuff a lot better and all Borderlands games play really well in both solo and co op modes. I've just provided Halo 5 as an example, so you can think about the rest of the list for yourself.

I still buy them if there are any that interest me. Unfortunately there hasn't been that much recently but I bought Ori 2 at launch and regret it. Though, it seems that I'm in minority here so I get your point. But I think that we still don't have enough data to clearly say whether the fact of majority Xbox gamers not buying first party games has some impact on game design or not. Probably, still too early to tell.

I'm looking at the lineup of games for this year, and I hardly see MS relying on the same formula as before. The new studios haven't even shown the majority of the games they are working on for next gen, or if they have, it's only a tidbit like Hellblade 2 and Everwild. Halo Infinite will push consoles, don't worry about that. Maybe YOU don't see anything to push you to buy an Xbox, but I've already seen the number of excitement for the next Xbox much higher than last generation.