Four Xbox exclusives are headed to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. Microsoft confirmed the information through its official Xbox podcast, throughout which Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer declared the choice was part of the corporate’s development technique. Whereas Spencer didn’t state which video games could be making the leap, explaining that he did not need to “take something away” from the respective studios planning to make particular person bulletins, he did affirm that each Indiana Jones and Starfield will stay Xbox exclusives.
However whereas Spencer stays quiet on the specifics, a current report by The Verge’s Tom Warren claims that Hello-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded are the 4 video games Xbox is bringing to new consoles. These titles completely align with what Spencer continued on to say concerning the 4 video games on the podcast:
“Two of them are type of community-driven video games that may find yourself on different platforms and provides us the flexibility to proceed to spend money on them. We predict that is nice for the enterprise and nice for the communities–more gamers to play with,” Spencer stated. “Two of the opposite video games are smaller video games that had been by no means actually meant to be constructed as type of platform exclusives and all of the fanfare that goes round that, however video games that our groups actually needed to go construct that we love supporting inventive endeavors throughout our studios no matter dimension.”
Thrilling as this all is, nevertheless, Spencer additionally acknowledged that gamers on different platforms shouldn’t take these video games coming over as “some sign that all the things is coming. It is not.” Spencer defined that Microsoft will solely carry Xbox video games to different consoles when it will not “injury Xbox” and the corporate can nonetheless develop its enterprise “utilizing what different platforms have to assist us with that,” which isn’t the case for each recreation. Spencer additionally expressed that a part of bringing video games to different consoles is just to get gamers on different platforms extra fascinated about Xbox and its franchises.
In different Xbox information, Microsoft additionally introduced that Diablo 4 is coming to Xbox Recreation Go. This marks the primary Activision Blizzard recreation to come back to the subscription service following it being acquired by Microsoft. The corporate additionally shared that Recreation Go at the moment has 34 million members and won’t be coming to PlayStation or Nintendo Switch, regardless of rumors that emerged late final yr. Moreover, new Xbox {hardware} is launching later in 2024.