Satya Nadella says more Xbox games will be released on other platforms

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curl-6 said:

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

The difference is, is that Phil Spencer has explicitly stated that they are not trying to out console Sony or Nintendo anymore. They have voluntarily dropped out of the console war. So, yes MS is not threatened by Sony or Nintendo anymore because they are not trying to sell more consoles than them. They are just trying to sell Gamepass and their games on other platforms now. For Sony and Nintendo, that is not the case. Their business model relies on them selling their console and handhelds.

So, yes MS is putting their games elsewhere because they are not threatened by console makers anymore, as they have shifted strategy

You could say much the same about Sony though; putting Horizon Adventures on Switch is due to their shift in strategy towards trying to maximise the reach of their software and increasing revenue by selling on PC and Switch rather than prioritizing exclusivity and hardware sales.

If they shifted strategy, the game would also be on Xbone, XBS consoles, PS4 as those consoles are all more powerful than Switch and can run the game too. They clearly still see Xbox as enough of a threat to not launch it on Xbox, and with PS4 my guess is that they want to incentivise people to buy the PS5 instead of keeping the PS4. Sony's business strategy clearly still is to sell consoles, and I don't know why people are saying they're moving away from that. Sony and MS are not comparable in business strategy. It's just that Switch is not a strong enough competitor to threaten Sony and the PS5