Games Inbox: Xbox giving up on console exclusives, Saints Row bugs, and The Callisto Protocol success
The Thursday letters page worries The Last Of Us Part 1 might be outdated, as one reader imagines a The Thing game in the style of Among Us.
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Mutual benefit I know I’m not the only person that didn’t believe a word of what Phil Spencer said about wanting less exclusives. As GC pointed out, he already said the reason he bought Bethesda was to have more exclusives. Heck, that’s the reason for all of the acquisitions, since Microsoft had virtually no first party studios by the start of the Xbox One era. They’re only not making Call Of Duty exclusive because of prior arrangements and because they’re promising the monopoly investigators.
But it does raise an interesting question of how things are going to work for Xbox in the short term. They’ve still got no first party games on the horizon until, I would assume, late 2023 at the earliest. I would also assume that now the PlayStation 5 is regularly back in stock it’s going to start widening the gap against the Xbox Series X again. Nobody’s going to be buying an Xbox Series X for its exclusive games and I don’t see that changing any time soon.
What they will buy it for though is Xbox Game Pass and I think Microsoft would be perfectly happy not making consoles anymore as long as they can put Game Pass on PlayStation and Nintendo. And I’m not really sure why they’re not allowed to. Especially when it comes to Nintendo, as I’m sure it wouldn’t interfere with sales of their games and the Switch is perfect for streaming, as that becomes more reliable.
When it comes to PlayStation it just seems to be pride more than anything, but if I was Sony I’d let Game Pass on tomorrow, on the condition that Xbox stop making
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