To be fair, Sunset and Tomb Raider were only published by Microsoft and both Insomiac and Square retain full access to those IPs respectively. Halo, Gears, and Forza are also top priority for Microsoft. Still you can't ignore how MS majorly mismanaged
Lionhead and the
Phantom Dust guys. Not to mention they turned Black Tusk into a Gears factory.
I wouldn't be surprised if Scalebound ends up being mismanaged as well. The footage at Gamescom looked extremely rough, was delayed to 2017 back in January, and the general premise of an open world action RPG sounds generic and reeks of MS trying to ape games like the Witcher. Plus I think the protagonist was suppose to be a girl before it was changed to an adult white-guy.
ReCore though I have no clue. Three studios have their hands on the project and neither Armature nor Comcept have really proven themselves. That plus MS's history of mishandling projects like this comes across as a case of too many cooks. It's all speculation but I see it very much going that way.