The days of Xbox exclusives are reportedly numbered.
That’s according to Windows Central executive editor Jez Corden, who discussed his understanding ofMicrosoft’s first-party strategy in a series of X posts this weekend.
“Xboxwon’t have exclusives going forward. Everything is timed exclusive at most,” heclaimed.
“If some games are exclusive it’s gonna be incidental at best, the ‘case by case’ argument is by and large going to be multiplat, timed, and with maybe a few (very few) outliers,” Corden later added.
And responding to a user who said they didn’t believeXbox’s upcoming Fable gamewould come toPlayStation, Corden wrote: “That game was monstrously expensive. It might not be day one, but it’ll come with the current plan in place imo.”
Xbox first announced in February plans to bring a wave of games to PlayStation andNintendo Switch, in what appeared to be a significant change of strategy, starting withPentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves and Grounded.
Later,Microsoft announced Doom: The Dark AgesforXbox Series X/S,PC, andPS5, and confirmed thata PS5 version of its Indiana Jones gamewill be releasednext year.
Last month, Microsoft’s gaming CEOPhil Spencerreiterated that the companywon’t rule out any first-party Xbox game potentially coming to rival platformssuch as PlayStation andNintendoin the future.
Matt Booty, Microsoft’s president of game content and studios, also toldVarietythis month: “We are very much making the [exclusivity and windowing] decisions on a game by game basis. And each of our studios is in a little bit of a different position.
“There’s also the production timeline on a game, so the decision on spacing comes there first. We want to ensure there’s a great experience for our Xbox players, and then the gap between [when it becomes available on PlayStation] is as much a production decision as it is anything else.”
