VersusEvil said:
Why should Sony give MS anything (outside of the contractual obligated ones), MS wasn’t putting games on PS out of the kindness of their heart it was coz you lot stopped buying em 😜 and you’d be pretty pissed off too if you had to re-edit your showcase at the last minute. They effectively lost two games from the showcase coz Halo was chosen over something else. |
Phil dreamed of a world without exclusivity from the very beginning, he talked about it years before day one Gamepass killed 1st party software sales. He did interviews talking about how he was forward thinking and that a future would exist without any exclusives. And to his credit, I think he actually believed that, and he put his money where is mouth was by giving away quite alot of exclusives. Sony and Nintendo did not reciprocate even a tiny bit. Phil had also convinced Microsoft's bean counters that it was a path to more money, which he was clearly wrong about, the extra revenue from ports wasn't enough to offset the decline in hardware or Gamepass subs, which I'm positive is why Phil retired and Sarah was let go.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 12 June 2026
