Microsoft Has No Further Plans To Bring First-Party Games to Other Platforms

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DonFerrari said:

trasharmdsister12 said:
I find it strange that no one has pointed out the simplest explanation for how the two pieces of PR don't conflict each other at all.

Right now GamePass is on PC and X1. The games on these hardware platforms are different despite them both being GamePass. By this set-up, GamePass on other platforms could also restrict which games are available on those platforms. GamePass on PS could exclude MS's first party. I mean, even EA Access or whatever it's called has this set-up where on Xbox One it has a bunch of titles from the 360 era due to the hardware's capability while on PS4 it doesn't. The subscription service can have different libraries available on different platforms and scale the cost based on that. So MS could absolutely bring GamePass to other platforms without bringing any first party content to them.

Just my two cents. GamePass is interesting to me and I've invested in it for the $1 fee to convert my 3 years of live to GamePass Ultimate. Depending on the state of the industry and the library/cost when my subscription is done, I'll see if I want to continue or cut away.

I don't really see PS allowing GamePass with only the 3rd party games that are already on their system and sharing the revenue with MS. They would much more likely make a copycat of it on PS.

Also if you have to make interpretation and clarification it already show their message is at least not well done even though there are claims of it being perfectly clear, simple and that anyone that didn't understood is dumb or game warrior.

The fact that people have to make interpretation on the word future seems to be the issue here but what I really see is people own personal agenda clouding their judgement on simple statements.  That is the thing, people continue to talk about something that is in the distant future as if its something happening in the next couple years.  This is the problem of trying to take one snippet of what someone says and try to apply it to the now.  There is no plans in place for Gamepass or Xcloud to be on all platforms but in the future MS would like the service to be everywhere.  When that happens who knows what the state of consoles, PCs, mobile and other platforms will be.  Who knows what state hardware for these platforms will be 5 years from now.  For all we know, hardware will be built within TVs and Entertainment systems where streaming becomes the norm.  Trying to determine what MS, Sony and Nintendo will do 5 years from now is fruitless and it's even more fruitless to try and determine a simple quote where someone says they want Gamepass on all platforms as anything more than a simple future outlook of a service that is platform agnostic.

Does that mean MS will not make their own hardware, who knows.  That statement doesn't say that nor was it implied.  Insead people like you who already have a perception ran with that assumption with nothing more than a gut feeling then anything.  I have no clue what MS hardware plans are outside they will have another console but then again I have no clue what Sony or even Nintendo will do either.