Almost every game announced on the direct comes to Xbox, just the zelda one maybe SE elliot one?

Purchases this week:

- Po'Ed

-Star Wars Dark Forces remaster 

So far so good on keeping their promise of increasing third party support. Primarily Japanese of course. Adventures of Elliot is confirmed to be on Xbox. I think Romancing Saga 2 remake is still a no show on Xbox since it got a Switch 2 edition.

I thought you had already purchased Dark Forces? Let me know how Po'ed is. I usually get all of Nightdive's games but that one and Killing Time were weird to me lol

In this context every company faces risk with this age verification system.  In this case everyone will either have to develop something that conforms to the new rules or use 3rd party companies like is recommended in this rule which is a another cost to do business and a overhead that needs to be managed.

I guess to narrow down my point is that I hate to generalize anything because then it adds bias to our opinions and narrow the scope of our perception on things.  I just believe its very easy to say "Its the government and corporations out to control us" than to actually break down the situation and look at the pros and cons.  In this particular situation I cannot really see any real upside to this on a corporate front because nothing in this age verification helps any corporation that I can think of.  It sounds like more overhead they need to do and manage with no upside at all and a cost they have to account for.

Oh in this case I meant the corporation that is tasked with developing, implementing and running the age verification itself. I could have made that clearer.

Nah I thought SW Dark forces was too expensive but now it is on sale and while I wish it was cheaper I got it,  Don't know when I will test Po'ED tho,  my list of games is growing especially the one I havn't started yet.

I imagine this will be future GAAS titles likes Fairgames and Gummy Bear. At least starting.

GAAS makes the most sense to release on Xbox and Nintendo as they need as many players as possible. Not that releasing Concord on every platform would have made any difference for that game.

Until one is actually announced I wouldn't expect any single-player focused PlayStation games to release on Xbox or Nintendo. Lego Horizon I feel is more of an exception.

All the GaaS will come to Xbox, Fairgames especially needs to release on everything possible, Gummy Bears, etc. I think some smaller projects like LEGO Horizon could come to Xbox and then Spider-Man. I don't think we'll see God of War, Uncharted, etc. Sony's biggest SP IPs. But they'll be available on the Xbox PC so it's not that important.

It won't hurt PlayStation that much. They've already taken over the high-end console market and owned it since Xbox One and they will now continue to own it. They have tens of millions of users locked into their digital ecosystems now, with literally hundreds of games and other purchases, they won't just abandon literally hundreds-thousands of dollars spent.

The console market is far easier to get into, a lot cheaper and a lot less hassle than the PC market, until that changes they will continue to be tens of millions 'lazy' people who just want a simple plug in and play option and finally, there's nowadays tens of millions who buy these consoles only to play the blackhole games. I think it's safe to say that the biggest seller of Xbox/PlayStation consoles nowadays isn't exclusives, and hasn't been for a long time, it is by far things like Call of Duty, Fortnite, Sports Titles, etc.

Then you take a look at the play charts and it's these videogames dominating and it's incredibly difficult to crack the top 15 unless you're a huge IP or release into Game Pass/PS+ hence why they're have to release elsewhere and reach as wide an audience as possible because consoles are totally dominated by blackhole games.

I'm not expecting them to release any of their major SP titles on Xbox but I remember when the exception was that Sony doesn't own MLB so it doesn't count, then the exception was Bungie operates independently so it doesn't count, now the exception is Helldivers 2 is a GaaS so it doesn't count, Lol. There is also it doesn't count because it's only on Switch and not Xbox, Lol. It's pretty clear Sony is just slowly conditioning people into accepting more and more so who knows, I wouldn't say it's impossible, we live in strange times now.

Xbox fans went through the exact same denial

I'm throwing in Stellar Blade and Marvel Tokon as other most likely candidates.