Gamespot: I'll try to go back to the question and rephrase. Sony is getting a lot of exclusive deals with third party studios...
Spencer: Well, it's buying them.
Gamespot: Yes, fair point, it's buying them, and it's buying a lot of them, and Microsoft isn't. I wonder if that makes your job much harder, I wonder if that's a case of two different strategies, and I wonder why it's happening in the first place.
Spencer: So we're making a conscious decision to focus on our first-party games. It doesn't make it harder or easier, it's just a decision. I do think that building up first-party exclusives is creatively more difficult than signing a deal, just by the nature of what it is. But I'll point out too that Sony has some great first-party franchises. I'm a big fan of Uncharted, I thought that looked great at E3. I really admire the team at Naughty Dog, the team at Polyphony.
For us, right now Xbox is in a stretch where all its first-party teams are doing an incredible job. I'm proud of that as the head of Xbox, and as the head of first-party. To be able to open a show with Quantum Break, to be able to close it with Halo Wars, and to have Dave Jones and Hideki Kamiya on stage in between, makes me incredibly proud. Oh I should mention Forza too...