Asha Sharma on Xbox exclusivity
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No calls made yet. Choices around Xbox’s approach to exclusive games are “long-swinging decisions that have decade-long impact,” Sharma said.
“We’ll take a data-driven approach and a strategic-driven approach, and then we’ll look at our… pic.twitter.com/AnVAtN73p5
| “We’ll take a data-driven approach and a strategic-driven approach, and then we’ll look at our principles and we’ll make some calls. So we’ll share more when we’re ready,” she said. |
Seems like she wants to wait and see some sales data on bigger former Xbox exclusive series on PS5 before she decides whether or not to kill PS5 ports. The small stuff has all pretty much flopped on PS5 afaik, so they probably spent more porting those to PS5 than it was worth in sales. They should definitely make the small stuff exclusive again. As for the big stuff, the only real sales data they have there so far is the Starfield port (which started strong on PS5 and then fell off fairly hard in the 2 weeks since), and the Gears 1 Remake port last year which I don't think sold very well either.
Personally I'd go ahead and kill the announced Halo Campaign Evolved and Forza Horizon 6 PS5 ports right now if I was her, the extra software sales just aren't worth the damage it does to the Xbox brand. As for the stuff that Microsoft acquired, Zenimax and Activision, I wouldn't be surprised if Asha makes/keeps those all multiplat, but I do think she should consider at least timed exclusivity on stuff like TES 6, Blade, Wolfenstein 3, etc.
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