Except if anyone paid any attention to Microsoft over the last 5 years they’d already know that Microsoft don’t want exclusives because they want to bring PC and Xbox together.
People need to stop being baited by shitty journalists. Grow a braincell or 2.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Those games are already available on PC, nobody was freaking out about that. People were wary of MS exclusives being ported to other console platforms.
Consoles live and die by exclusives. Porting those over suggests a lack of faith in the brand and would be like admitting defeat. It wasn’t clickbait rage journos baiting people, it was people reading the room and realising that the Xbox brand wasn’t as strong as they thought.
Specal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean I guess? Exclusives are anti-consumer so I don’t know why people defend them. Sounds cultish to me
Aielman15@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You don’t need to defend exclusives or become part of a cult to understand how the market works.
Exclusives are a big part of what makes a console successful (not the only one, mind you, but they certainly play a role in convincing people to buy a console), and porting them over to the competing console would be like admitting defeat for MS.
Although fanboys certainly exist (on both sides), a lot of people weren’t being cultish. They were simply concerned for the future of Xbox and re-evaluating their choice: why buy a console, when I can buy the competition and play all its games plus other exclusive titles? Why invest in a digital library if there’s no guarantee that the platform will keep existing?
Specal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well you’ve said it yourself, Microsoft are trying to remove that physical limitation to accessing a platform. But Microsoft knows what the market wants, people have been against exclusives for a long time and they want to remove that, I shouldn’t have to spend £300 to play a game when I have equipment already capable of playing a game Infront of me.
So being scared that Xbox is going to disappear is stupid, the consoles might, but Microsoft has been transforming Xbox into a platform for years, starting with the release of windows 7 when they introduced XboxLive for windows alongside halo 2. This has been a long term goal.