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Update: Games are:
Pentiment
Hi-Fi Rush
Grounded
Sea of Thieves​

Microsoft: four Xbox-exclusive games are coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch

Microsoft is starting out small but has big ambitions.

www.theverge.com

Xbox will make 4 (unnamed) titles available for PS and/or Switch. Worried about the impact on Xbox hardware? Phil Spencer tells me boosting games sales can help fund future hardware, including new form factors:

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https://twitter.com/tomwarren

Xbox chief Phil Spencer doesn't rule out Starfield and Indiana Jones coming to PS5. "I don't think we should as an industry ever rule out a game going to any other platform.



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[VideoGameEnjoyer]

Missing a 'yet' at the end of the title.

 

[Redneckerz]

Full broadcast:

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Must be clusterfuck internally.

 

[Bernoulli]

The first 4 just left

 

[Fabieter]

For now

 

[M1chl]

You fucking failed me, so much hype for absolutely nothing. Day ruined

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Yet. It's a sinking ship and they don't want people to rush the lifeboats.

Spencer confirms that Starfield and Indiana Jones are not part of the first four games, but he doesn't rule out the possibility for these titles to arrive on PS5 in the future. "I don't think we should as an industry ever rule out a game going to any other platform," says Spencer in an interview with The Verge.

 

[Bond007]

Not yet.

 

[Moses85]

They will follow the smell of the money.

 

[DAHGAMING]

Enjoy the gaas junk with yo new pulse headset lolzor.

 

[Fabieter]

Yet. It's a sinking ship and they don't want people to rush the lifeboats.

There it is you can't bring them a at once that doesn't make any sense for many reasons tho.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Yet. It's a sinking ship and they don't want people to rush the lifeboats.

Groundwork laid for everything to come over in time. Marketshare only increasing one way, to Playstation, Nintendo and PC.

 

[killatopak]

Imagine selling your console and games just because of this.

On gamestop too. Poor guy.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

GAF is filled with fucking idiots.

 

[Fake]

Lmao you could just say 'no', but did the podcast anw.

The guy is a clown.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

werent these the games people projected as multiplatform the past week? Who ever said that rumour got it right.

 

[Eiknarf]

Two of the four are “community driven games”

And the other two “are smaller games that were never supposed to be platform exclusive”

Sounds like Hellblade 2.
Part 1 was multiplatform, so might as well continue that

 

[Saber]

Probably a move because of lack of buyers. Wouldn't be surprised if later these titles will be on other plataforms.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Two of the four are “community driven games”

And the other two “are smaller games that were never supposed to be platform exclusive”

Sounds like Hellblade 2.
Part 1 was multiplatform, so might as well continue that

So a single player cinematic experience game is the other community driven game like Sea of Thieves?

It’s either Grounded or Killer Instinct

 

[Del_X]

“New form factors”

Ngl I’m excited for an Xbox handheld

 

[FeralEcho]

Enjoy the gaas junk with yo new pulse headset lolzor.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I'm on Xbox mute as I'm at work on a conference call.

So they didn't name the games? I thought going by skimming posts it's Hi Fi, Pentiment etc...

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

“New form factors”

Ngl I’m excited for an Xbox handheld

nah, Steam Deck 2 coming in about 2 years with full Steam support AND the possibility to also play Gamepass stuff... Good luck MS

 

[Nydius]

Not coming, yet. Remember the Starfield rumor was that it wasn’t coming until after the Shattered Space DLC, which gives them wiggle room to say one thing today and then do something else later this year.

 

[Del_X]

nah, Steam Deck 2 coming in about 2 years with full Steam support AND the possibility to also play Gamepass stuff... Good luck MS

They have to make it an open-ish platform that can also run steam. Otherwise yeah it’s DOA.

 

[TheTony316]

Not yet. From now on, every time a new first party game gets announced people will just asume it'll launch a year later on other systems and just wait. It already started with Blade.

 

[LordCBH]

Lmao they let all their users shills make shows of selling their Xboxes for this. I think I know why:

Now all those shills will buy new Xboxes

 

[Eiknarf]

so obvious why it wasn’t live

They want to control the message. The questions and answers were rehearsed

 

[Dazraell]

Two of the four are “community driven games”

And the other two “are smaller games that were never supposed to be platform exclusive”

Sounds like Hellblade 2.
Part 1 was multiplatform, so might as well continue that

I think this might be what they have on the roster:
- Sea of Thieves - live service game that depends on the community playing it, having it on other platforms make a lot of sense if they're thinking about expanding an audience to multiple platforms
- Grounded - survival game with lower scope that is based around co-op, already finished its life cycle and have potential to reach new players
- Pentiment - small adventure game which can especially do well among Switch players who play on handheld mode or PlayStation Portal users
- HI-FI Rush - well-acclaimed game that didn't made a huge splash commercially. Having it on multiple platforms can give it much more recognition and improve its sales performance

I wouldn't count for Starfield, but I think Avowed, Hellblade 2 and Indiana Jones may have a big chance for releasing on PS5 in 2025

 

[DenchDeckard]

I think this might be what they have on the roster:
- Sea of Thieves - live service game that depends on the community playing it, having it on other platforms make a lot of sense if they're thinking about expanding an audience to multiple platforms
- Grounded - survival game with lower scope that is based around co-op, already finished its life cycle and have potential to reach new players
- Pentiment - small adventure game which can especially do well among Switch players who play on handheld mode or PlayStation Portal users
- HI-FI Rush - well-acclaimed game that didn't made a huge splash commercially. Having it on multiple platforms can give it much more recognition and improve its sales performance

I wouldn't count for Starfield, but I think Avowed, Hellblade 2 and Indiana Jones may have a big chance for releasing on PS5 in 2025

Its those 4 games I think, 100%

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Well Phil did say this: “don’t want to rule out a game coming to any other platforms […] currently focused on 4 games". Full quote via The Verge:

You mentioned that Starfield and Indiana Jones aren't part of the four despite rumors, but will those ever come to PS5? Can you rule that out?
I don't think we should as an industry ever rule out a game going to any other platform. We're focused on these four games and learning from the experience.
But I don't want to create a false expectation on those other platforms that this is somehow the first four to get over the dam and then the dam's going to open and that everything else is coming, that's not the plan today. I also don't want to mislead customers on those other platforms. We're launching these four games, and we're excited about it. We're excited about the announce and everything else, but we'll see what happens for our business.

 

[DAHGAMING]

Ya got me bruv .

 

[Orbital2060]

Hi Fi Rush
Pentiment
Gears of War
edit Sea of Thieves

 

[ByWatterson]

yet

 

[reinking]

"...over the next five or ten years, exclusive games, games that are exclusive to one piece of hardware, are going to be a smaller and smaller part of the game industry."

Make of that what you will.

 

[bender]

These are the trial balloons and the constantly mentioned re-evaluating the strategy and their developers wanting their games in as many hands as possible. They also referenced the "only four" as being over a year old so that kind of paints a picture of what is to come.

 

[Ogbert]

Spoiler warning: they’ll all be shit.

Fuck you MS and fuck you GAF for getting my hopes up for something interesting!

 

[Jaybe]

No loss here. Starfield is terrible. 58% don’t recommend it from those that bought it in the last 30 days. Keep it.

 

[NEbeast]

Yet. It's a sinking ship and they don't want people to rush the lifeboats.

I love that the typical warriors are ignoring the full context. He doesn't out right say more games, including Starfield, are never coming. They're talking around the question without really answering it. We do know day 1 is still staying for gamepass at least .

 

[Mister Wolf]

Prepare for a mountain of vitriol in the Indiana Jones threads.

 

[Eiknarf]

Well
I watched it

Man, based on the way they talk, XBOX is the greatest thing in the world and PlayStation and Nintendo are small pieces of trash

 

[MisterXDTV]

Well Phil did say this: “don’t want to rule out a game coming to any other platforms […] currently focused on 4 games". Full quote via The Verge:

We know they are coming Phil, don't worry about it!

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

The only interesting IP they have is Fable, so I guess I’ll hope it’s that one? Then I can finally drop their shit ecosystem entirely.

 

[Chuck Berry]

GAF is filled with fucking idiots.

Thanks for joining us

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

 

[adamsapple]

Prepare for a mountain of vitriol in the Indiana Jones threads.

Prepare? It was already there lol

 

[Nankatsu]

All the buzz for this? Even at this Xbox bombs hard

 

[SHA]

Xbox and Windows relationship reminds me of Baki and Yujiro fight, complex, dangerous, deadly literary outside of Baki and his oldman Yujiro, watch the fight and you'll get what I mean.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Prepare? It was already there lol

Yeah but now they've had their hope crushed. With him saying this, they are smart enough to realize if it does come it definitely wont be anytime soon after its release on Xbox.