Isn't all the original talent from Rare gone now? Last I heard, they're working on a spiritual successor to Banjo-Tooie.
I wonder what that studio even is anymore given how long they've been relegated to doing what amounts to the shit work.
I think the answer is the vast majority of them have gone but there are a few kicking around?
Thing is, its not like Rare replaced all the staff with droids, I'm sure they're people perfectly good at what they do. I don't blame MS for getting them to work on Kinect Sports Rivals but they need to do more as well.
PDZ and Kameo never got the sequels they deserved despite the success they had at 360 launch (both did well at the time) and they had the chance to develop the franchises and didn't.
Don't see any reason why a Perfect Dark sequel can't be a downloadable game on Xbox One. Not everything has to be AAA, theres ways round these things (that don't involve F2P)
Diversity is the very reason Sony is so well received, MS chases the $$ first and that just happens to be FPS genre. Hopefully next gen will that opportunity to change this
Microsoft FPS… Halo, Perfect Dark. Gears is third person shooter. They also published Kameo, Viva Piñata, Alan Wake, Forza, PGR, Kinect Sports. Countless XBLA games.
Microsoft don't chase "FPS" money more than anyone else. They don't even have an FPS exclusive launch title.