Goodbye Xbox exclusives, Microsoft will reveal the move next week

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Phil Spencer confirms that he has scheduled a “business update” event next week, where Microsoft will open up the PS5 and Switch.

Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, explained on Twitter that he and his team have an answer to the rumors about first-party games coming to PlayStation and Switch, but they are not ready to publish it yet. Spencer commented on the troubled story almost a day after reports from XboxEra and The Verge suggested that Microsoft had the intention of bringing Starfield to PS5, and that a similar fate could befall the new Indiana Jones and other historical exclusives.

Phil Spencer speaks –

“We are listening and we hear you,” Spencer said in the tweet. “We’ve scheduled a business update event for next week, where we look forward to sharing more details with you about our vision for the future of Xbox. Stay tuned”.

The reason for the turning point —

The news reported by XboxEra is just the latest in a series of similar alleged leaks that suggested Xbox’s intention to release Hi-Fi Rush on Nintendo Switch and PS5. But why so much speculation? The idea of ​​observers is that Xbox is abandoning the hardware due to the poor sales of Xbox Series studios and publishers, has pushed Redmond to review its plans.

Multi-platform Xbox, it was “pre-announced” —

Whatever the decision of the Windows company and the reason behind it, the situation is undoubtedly complicated: in 2023, during a round table, Spencer explained to us that Xbox has “millions more consoles” compared to the Xbox 360 era, considered for many the most prosperous period of green-crociate gaming, even if this success came at a cost. By 2022, Microsoft was in fact selling each console at a loss of between 100 and 200 dollars. During the same press event last year, Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty added that the company measures success by the number of people playing Xbox games, not by the number of consoles sold. These metrics are what made Microsoft’s acquisitions of Bethesda and Activision important – they were a way to bring millions of new players into the Xbox ecosystem – and would largely explain a multiplatform turnaround.



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