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Xbox Boss Says That They Are Going After Fewer Third Party Exclusives

Published Sat, 01 Aug 2015 19:45:22 -0500

The Rise of the Tomb Raider coup by Xbox at last year's Gamescom was almost certainly the biggest news to come out of the conference. Taking a franchise that was synonymous with PlayStation at one point and wrapping it up for a year on the Xbox One was a big deal.

Don't expect anything like that at GamesCom next week though. Talking to Gamecore (via Dualshockers), Xbox boss Phil Spencer explained he is more focused on first party games to build on in the future:

My Strategy is more around our own first party franchises, and investing in franchises that we own, and probably fewer exclusive deals for third party content. I want to have strong third party relations, but paying for many third party exclusives isn't our long term strategy.

This year, the fact that we're shipping Halo 5, Gears of War, Forza 6, Fable, we can only do that and build that (sic) best line-up we've ever seen really on the back of franchises that we own. It's great to have Tomb Raider as part of our line-up, but investing in first party, you'll see more of that at gamescom next week, is really core to our strategy.

Xbox really are ratcheting up their exclusives to with Halo, Tomb Raider and Forza coming this holiday, and in just a few days we are going to hear more about Crackdown, Scalebound and Quantum Break. That's even before you touch Gears 4. Things look healthy for Microsoft and Xbox One owners have every reason to be excited.

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