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PotentHerbs said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

Not sure where you heard Sea of Thieves, but Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment I've definitely heard of potentially being ported. Both great games though!

Microsoft historically has ported several of their AA games. Both Ori titles, soon to be As Dusk Falls next month, The Bard's Tale Remastered as several notable examples. 

EDIT: Oh, I see Jeff Grubb mentioning Sea of Thieves! That would be interesting. It's definitely Rare's biggest game ever and Microsoft's arguably best current live service. I can see them expanding a userbase through their biggest live service. 

Microsoft potentially porting Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush is a major shift in their business strategy and allegedly just the start. As Dusk Falls is a recent port, and falls under this new philosophy as well. 

These games coming over to PlayStation already makes a comparison like Ori completely different. It certainly didn't drum up confusion and ambiguity for their core fanbase either. 

Yeah, which tbf, with Nintendo and Sony selling 2-3x more consoles than Xbox if not more, which most likely Xbox as a console will never recover from at this point, they kinda had to change their business strategy. It started already with putting games on PC day one for all first party games. 

This was from the FTC case where MS kinda lays out what their plan is

 

So they could be heading towards a path of

Niche - Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, As Dusk Falls, etc - Multiplatform (maybe not at launch, but a year after launch)
AAA Single Player - Avowed, Fable, Hellblade 2, etc - Console Exclusive
GAAS/Live Service - Call of Duty, Minecraft, Sea of Thieves, etc - Multiplatform

The fanbase is definitely confused from a console warring perspective, but considering that niche games don't sell consoles and live service games live and die on a large playerbase, it makes the most business sense to have Niche and GAAS titles be multiplatform.