Spencer: 'The Capability That We Have as a First-Party Organization Will Continue to Get Bigger' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 October 2019 / 3,341 Views
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer speaking on Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb's podcast discussed Microsoft's first-party studios. He plans the number of studios to continue to grow, but the company is in a much better position than it has been in the last five years.
"The capability that we have now as a first-party organization I do think it will continue to get bigger, but what we have right now is so different than the position we’ve been in in the last five years, which is awesome," said Spencer.
"I’ve seen what Ninja Theory’s working on next and what their pipeline looks like… I saw what Playground’s working on next, I saw what Rare is working on next and their continued growth and success with Sea of Thieves."
Microsoft at E3 2018 announced it had acquired Undead Labs, Playground Games, Ninja Theory, and Compulsion Games. The company later announced it had acquired Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment.
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After the XB1 you better have lots of great games for your next console.
Assuming we've seen just about every major game X1 is gonna get, I'd say the only thing X1 has really lacked is some good adventure games and Halo was under utilized. However, X1 had gems I'd argue competing consoles did not have.
Either way, it certainly appears MS has big plans for next gen and hopefully more gems are coming to X1.
Hope they can do it. MS has had nothing but horrible luck this gen. So many canceled games, and the exclusives they do have aren't anything special. Nothing that stands out at all.
I'm capable of having sex with lots of hot girls too.
I'll make a judgement for myself when i see the games. Hopefully it's not like what MS always do.. some nice decent exclusives at the start of the gen, and as the years go by, less and less good first party games are released.
Would like to see MS at least match what Sony and Nintendo can do, but they have a lot of catching up to do.
so far that capability is almost Null. So it does not mean much greater things.
They just bought the studios recently and its at least an effort to make future 1st party support better.
I know they have bought lots of studios, buy that hasn't been "translated" into games yet.
Good. Keep going.
MS going sicko mode.
