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Machiavellian said:

shikamaru317 said:

Rumor is the Sea of Thieves port to PS5 will be announced today on the Sony State of Play, smh. Bad enough they are giving away Xbox exclusives to start with, even worse that they are advertising said ports on a direct competitor's showcase event. It's like signaling to PS5 owners "no need to buy a cheap Series S in a sale to play our exclusives, if you wait long enough we will bring our games to you here on PS5". 

Interesting that you see it that way.  I on the other hand think it's the smartest move MS could have done.  If you are going to put your service game on every platform and especially if you want a big crowd to see your service game on a particular platform, having it presented on their platform is the way to go.

Not sure why anyone is crying about MS putting Sea of Thieves on PS5.  It just seems silly to limit any service game to just one platform especially the amount of investment that usually has to go into putting out constant content.  Even so so service games bring in a nice chunk of money that are on every platform.  If you see Sea of Thieves as something that make PS5 players decide not to get a series S than it might be how you view the market.  No one who has a PS5 is looking at Sea of Thieves as a game that they will get a series S for.    MS need a multiple years of great AAA games to budge any PS5 gamer and its not going to be some service game that does it.

If it was just Sea of Thieves it wouldn't be so bad, it is a service game from 2018 afterall, everyone who was willing to buy a console to play it will have already done so. But we're also hearing talk of HiFi Rush, a 1 year old game, coming to other platforms. We even had a leaker claim that Xbox is discussing making all upcoming Zenimax games multiplat because Xbox hasn't been happy with their sales as Xbox/PC exclusives. I fear Xbox is about to cross into very dark territory that is bad for Xbox console owners.