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Xbox’s ‘Exclusive’ Video Game Strategy Leaves Everyone Confused (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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But since closing the Activision deal last fall, Xbox has made a series of moves that have left fans and analysts baffled about its overall strategy. It has laid off thousands of staff, shuttered studios and been unable to articulate a consistent message about how it plans to release games. Xbox fans assumed those big acquisitions would lead to more exclusive games that helped justify their console purchase, but the opposite has happened.

Early this year, Microsoft began putting some of its former exclusives on PlayStation, starting with smaller, older titles such as Hi-Fi Rush. This week, the company announced that another big, new title will follow the same route. Indiana Jones and The Great Circle, coming in December to Xbox and PC, will arrive on PlayStation in the spring of 2025.

Ditching console exclusives is good news for players who can only afford to stick to one piece of hardware. And Microsoft was able to squeeze the Activision deal past regulatory scrutiny in part because it promised to continue releasing Call of Duty on PlayStation. But Xbox’s release strategy has been so confusing, it requires a massive spreadsheet and a full-time job to keep track of it all.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

But since closing the Activision deal last fall, Xbox has made a series of moves that have left fans and analysts baffled about its overall strategy.

[citation needed]

This is a dumb article by a dumb author. There is nothing baffling about a video game publisher, publishing video games.

Oh no it doesn't fit into a simple black and white, Xbox vs Playstation, narrative, that must make it baffling 🤔🤨🤔🤔🤨🤔🤨🤔🤨🤔.

Like Jesus Christ, grow the fuck up.

Console exclusives are inherently an example of market distortion and illegal anti-competitive tying. Stop acting confused when a company behaves normally. Sony music songs still come out on Apple Music, that is the norm for virtually every competitive business around the world. Stop treating video games differently.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is a dumb article by a dumb author.

checks author lmao, okay bud.

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