For noget tid siden løb den næsten over med rygter om Xbox' langsigtede eksklusivtetsstrategi, og der var sågar nogle insidere er påstod at Microsoft var i færd at bringe stort set samtlige af deres centrale IP'er til PlayStation, fra Starfield til Halo, fra Gears of War til Indiana Jones.
Det blev ikke helt sådan, men Phil Spencer slog dog fast at eksklusivitet, til en vis grad, er et gammeldags koncept, og Xbox tester lige nu vandene med lanceringen af Sea of Thieves, Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment og Grounded. Men spørger du en der traditionelt set har styr på sagerne, GamesIndustrys Christopher Dring, så vil "størstedelen" af Microsofts Xbox-spil lande på PS5 på den lange bane. Under den seneste GI Microcast-episode siger han dette:
"And with Xbox putting some of the games on PS5 - from what I understand the majority of them will be coming across at some point, assuming it progresses as Xbox believes it probably will - I think Xbox is in real trouble as a hardware manufacturer, and that was the thing that came out of GDC for me. I thought it would be fine, but then I didn't really factor in that some developers and publishers might just go, 'yeah I don't, you know, is there any point?' And that is when you can lose it. It's not hard confirmation of more first-party Xbox titles getting a multi-platform release, but it's seemingly under consideration.
Igen, det er åbenbart noget der overvejes kraftigt i disse dage, men noget tyder på at Xbox i det hele taget er ved at finde en ny vej frem.
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