The Xbox platform and its corresponding hardware need exclusive games. It’s a point that many players have been making for a while. And now it seems that new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is agreeing with the players. Sharma hasn’t yet defined what a return to exclusives would mean, as that decision hasn’t yet been made. As it stands right now, Xbox games won’t just be coming an Xbox console. Some games like the upcoming Fable are still listed as coming to PC and PS5 as well.
It seems odd to think about an Xbox game on a competing console platform if you grew up with the older consoles. Since time immemorial, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo have all had their own games. If you wanted to play them, you needed to own that console.
Then Xbox ditched that plan several years ago and started its campaign to bring games to as many players as possible. Regardless of the screen they were playing them on. Phones, computer monitors, TVs, it didn’t matter. Xbox’s goal was to ensure availability for the gamer. This meant you could play your games in the cloud across devices. More recently, it’s meant playing games like Forza Horizon 5 on a PS5 console. That may be changing though.
Xbox CEO says platforms “must have exclusive content and services”
Although Xbox doesn’t have much if any exclusive content right now, there’s no doubt that it will eventually. Sharma’s statements during a recent interview with Bloomberg Tech seem to more or less confirm that. At the very least, it seems like Xbox is considering making a return to some exclusive content. “Look, we’re the number two publisher in the world, and in order to be a great publisher, you must have your games reach large audiences to play. At the same time, were increasingly becoming a platform. In order to be a platform, you must have exclusive content and services. And so were looking at that very closely,” Sharma said.
That’s not a direct confirmation that Xbox is going to pull back on games across platforms like Sony is doing, but it’s not confirmation that it won’t be doing that either. It also seems possible that Sharma could decide that some Xbox games would be exclusive while others would not. Similar to what Sony will be doing with live-service multiplayer games that it publishes.
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