Der var en periode hvor adskillige spil som Microsoft selv havde udgivet, såsom Cuphead og Ori and the Blind Forest, pludselig blev afsløret til Switch, og dette skete samtidig med at Phil Spencer slog fast i diverse interviews, at de ønsker en mere platformagnostisk fremtid for nogle af deres spilserier.
Dette blev fortolket som om at vi kunne se et hav af Microsoft-titler på Nintendos hardware fremadrettet, men det er altså ikke helt sådan at tingene hænger sammen. I et podcast ovre på IGN fortæller Spencer, at han er lidt træt af rygterne om at diverse Xbox-eksklusiver kommer til Switch, for det her var enkeltstående tilfælde, snarere end eksempler på et nyt bredt initiativ.
"I think more and more about what does a full Xbox experience mean on different platforms. Right now, it seems like when any game comes out, there's that, "is this one going here, is this one going there." I'd rather be able to set more of an Xbox-level expectation for our fans on where things are going to go. I thought we did that with our first party when we talked about games shipping on Xbox and PC, and I got some blow-back from certain people in certain groups on that, but at least we set an expectation on that. I'd rather see us get to that point on the different pieces of hardware we're on, so I guess I'll kind of leave it there. I definitely have a ton of respect for the role that Nintendo plays, and I love having great games on their platform. I don't really love this idea that for every one of our games, there becomes this little rumor on it "is it going to end up on the Switch or not." I feel we should set a better expectation with our fans than that."
Det lyder som et fornuftigt svar. Så man skal aldrig sige aldrig, men det lader til at Spencer fokuserer helt og holdent på Xbox-platformen for nu.