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Mr Puggsly on 25 September 2020
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WoodenPints said:
NobleTeam360 said:

Well, I believe Phil has already answered how exclusivity will be handled. I believe he said it would be on a per-game basis, so that should tell you that some games may be exclusive and others may be multiplatform. The huge games like Fallout or Elder Scrolls I could see MS keeping multiplatform but then others like Doom, Wolfenstein, and Dishonored, etc... being Xbox/PC only. So I guess.... nobody really knows how MS will handle it, maybe everything will end up being Xbox/PC only or maybe everything stays multi-platform or like I said, maybe a mixture of exclusivity and multi-platform.

My initial thoughts after seeing the acquisition news was that the games would release day one on Gamepass and on the PS5 for $70 as Xbox users gain massive benefits from having all these in Gamepass day one and PS5 users can still pay them a premium to play it and everyone wins and plenty of $$$ is made.

but now after a few days I'm not so sure if that will be the case realising that Elder Scrolls and Fallout are now potentially the two biggest platform sellers that Xbox currently have in their library.

The first option of putting them everywhere will make the most money in the short term for sure but the second option of bringing in more people to the ecosystem either on console or PC via Gamepass subs or profits from the 30% cut from third party game sales will likely be the strongest plan in the long term.

Some titles will certainly become exclusive to MS platforms. I also consider Steam included because that requires Windows for their games.

I don't really anticipate Elder Scroll and Fallout to stay exclusive. I've noticed Sony seems to be pretty aggressive with the timed exclusivity thing. Therefore would actually encourage MS to use timed exclusivity as revenge or use their titles to discourage Sony from doing that.

For MS to grow their platforms they can't support Playstation too much. Some games need to be exclusive to MS platforms or come later on Playstation.



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