Yea true.
I guess my point is, why are we having fewer first party releases, to which the answer is probably that first party titles now take more effort to develop since people expect "bigger" games, to which my point would be that - actually - I'd personally prefer smaller games of the N64/gamecube era, but just have more of them.
Perhaps I'm in the minority though.
First party games should be the biggest, with AA and indie games from third parties filling those gaps with lower budgets and smaller teams.

