Phil Spencer finally clarifies the rumors of recent days: four Xbox games will no longer be exclusive and may come out on Switch and PS5, but there will be no more.
Phil SpencerCEO of Xbox, has explained in an official Xbox podcast broadcast, the rumors that have surrounded Xbox during the last week and a half: will its games stop being exclusive?
The answer, for now, is no. In a 20-minute broadcast, Spencer, accompanied by Sarah Bondpresident of Xbox, and Matt Bootypresident of content and services at Xbox, has explained his plans.
Four games. Those are the Xbox games that will come out on other consoles. It does not specify consoles, and it does not specify what games they are: let each studio announce it at the right time.
But it does clarify that they do all this for the long-term health of Xbox. And adds that Neither Starfield nor Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are being considered for release on other platforms..
The Xbox games that will be cross-platform and those that will not
Spencer did not want to say which titles will be multiplatform, but it is easy to deduce them. On the one hand, two games are online, with a focus on the community, which will grow on other platforms. Probably, Sea of Thieves y Grounded.
On the other hand, two smaller games that were never designed as exclusive for the Xbox brand, according to Spencer, but rather they were games that his teams wanted to build, and after reaching maximum potential on PC and Xbox, they see the opportunity to grow on other platforms. That is to say, Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment.
Spencer insists that there are no more games that are planned to stop being Xbox exclusives, although he also does not deny that it could happen in the future. For now, it’s one more step to learn, and he believes that “In the next five or ten years, exclusive platform games will be a smaller part of the industry.”
The goal now will continue to be to grow the Xbox ecosystem, and he hints that his team is already working on a Xbox much more powerful, in addition to confirming the number of Xbox Game Pass subscribers: 34 million. Which, by the way, will be able to enjoy Diablo IV on the service in March…