Yeah....this is bulls***. Halo, Gears and Forza are still very much juggernaut franchises. We dont know the numbers of the most recent releases, but there's a reason why these titles still make a huge splash with every release. This believing that MS are using these 3 to "save" them is ridiculous. They're BILLION dollar franchises, FFS. Do you really believe its because no one wants them any more, or that their old and washed out? lol.
And again, the narrative has changed since the Playstation wont have the power advantage any more. Funny that, seeing as how that is all this generation has been about while at the same time, exclusives "didn't matter." Now that Playstation is finally seeing a big release again (Horizon is ONE game), exclusives are all the rage when at the beginning, it was all about 3rd party games. MS has had many exclusives since the beginning of this gen with more on the way not to mention 3rd party games.
I'm just as intrigued by Horizon as everyone else, but its ONE game. Hell, I even stated how I was jealous of Playstation gamers for Horizon - it looks phenomenal. But one game does not an end of a console make. Especially considering this year is all about Scorpio and will remain that way until it releases. Opinions are one thing -- radical opinions are something else.