My comment from the discord: To be fair MS really only has a few true 1st party studios Rare, 343, Coalition, Mojang, Turn 10...its hard to ask them for more when they have so few. The 2008 post Peter Moore Xbox team turned everything they had into kinect studios, closed several studios/partnerships, and released the mess that was og Xbox One. On top of that they seemingly did not set up their first parties to win...Halo 4 was a dev mess if the story about rebooting and all of the alternate ideas are to be believed, Rare was kinect sports, Coalition was running on a title that wasn't bearing any fruit. Phil's crew had to first get the OS into a stable state (original was so bad), cut out the kinect focus, release better hardware, fix the large XBL ecosystem, introduce back compat, get first party back on track (halo 5, gears 4, sea of thieves) before they could ever invest in new studios and IP.