Lol fucking hell bringing out the violins. We've all been calling these things "exclusivity agreements" and now Microsoft wants to call them "exclusion agreements" to make it sound more dramatic.
Also, while they name specific games, they kinda make it
sound as if those franchises have been permanently exclusive to Playstation since the beginning of time or something. Let's check:
Final Fantasy 13 came to Xbox 360 and PS3 on the same day (different in Japan but globally was simultaneous)
Final Fantasy 15 came to Xbox One an PS4 the same day
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Silent Hill 4: The Room came to Xbox and PS2 the same day
Silent Hill (5): Homecoming came to PS3 and Xbox 360 the same day
So basically we have evidence that Square Enix and Konami were both open to working with Xbox in the past. What changed? Suggests to me that Microsoft could have paid for exclusivity or
at least paid to not have them be exclusively on PS5 and failed to do so because they didn't want to work with Xbox for some reason.
There is also the possibility Microsoft told them they had to put their games on Series S and they were like "no fuck off, we'll just go Playstation exclusive you nobhead".
Basically Playstation built up the relationships and it paid off. Xbox could have built up the same sorts of relationships (they were only one generation later than Sony to the party) from the very first Xbox. It looks like that didn't work out for them? Maybe companies just don't want to work with Microsoft and, by extension, Xbox?
So fuck it let's just buy the biggest publishers so they cannot possibly say "no" to us ever again! Muwhahahahahahahah