Hoveddelen af Microsofts spilprojekter den seneste tid har været fokuseret på multiplayer, eller om ikke andet spil med mange sociale elementer i. Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2, samt det kommende Vigor og Forza Horizon 4, de har alle et fokus på multiplayer. Dog siger Microsoft at de så sandelig stadig er interesserede i at lave dedikerede singleplayer-spil.
I et interview med DualShockers fortæller Microsofts Aaron Greenberg at de elsker singleplayer-spil, og han fortæller at deres nye studier vil fokusere på disse oplevelser.
"We love single player games. It's something that we absolutely believe in, and you're right. I think the thing about these studios that makes them unique is really first and foremost, they are incredibly talented developers that make really high quality games."
"If you think about Compulsion, or Ninja Theory, or Undead, they're make games that are uniquely different from what we're doing today in our first-party studios. These games are different than Forza, or Halo, or Gears, or some of the franchises that people know us for. That's gonna add to the diversity of the content."
"Ultimately we know that all the data shows that gamers like to play a wide variety of games. People want to play co-op games, they want to play multiplayer games, and they want to play single player games, and we wanna make sure that we have the best of those games coming out of those internal studios as well."</em>