Current Events > Why doesn't the Xbox One have good exclusives?

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You'd think they'd want something with all the amazing games PS4 has been churning out.
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State of Decay is amazing
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Fuckin...Recore, man.
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SF_Okami posted...

State of Decay is amazing

I need to get into that :| I got to the first town then got paranoid I wasn't going to build the right facilities or something and quit >_>

@OP: Mostly because anything that would normally be an X1 exclusive is really a Microsoft exclusive so it's out on PC, too. That's what it seems like anyway
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They haven't prioritized first party content to the extent Sony has, or even Nintendo. They've clung to their tent pole releases, but that well is running dry.

I'll buy Halo until they stop making them; I love those games. But exclusive wise, that's all I really care about.
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Issues stem back a few years really.
- They lost Bungie and assumed the Halo brand was more valuable. To make up for this they made a development studio dedicated to making Halo games
- They also bought a development studio to make games for Gears of War since Epic wasn't interested anymore. They cancelled a Hong Kong heist game and got them to make Gears 4 instead
- Rare took a long time to make Sea of Thieves
- Remedy took a long time to make Quantum Break. Remedy has since left Microsoft to work with other publishers
- They closed down Lionhead
- They had developers working on exclusive games like Scalebound and Phantom Dust. These games got cancelled
- Earlier in the generation they did make a few exclusive deals with other developers too. For whatever reason these have slowed down in the last year. Perhaps we'll see more of these at E3.
- Their other first party studio is dedicated to Forza. They also make exclusive games with Playground games who make Forza Horizon. Rumors are they are now working on a new Fable.

But basically a generation ago they had Bungie, Epic, Lionhead, Remedy and Bioware as their biggest exclusive developers. These guys are either third party or have been closed down. Microsoft valued other things throughout last gen and early this gen. Apparently they've been trying to change things in the last year or so.
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