If The Rumors Are True, No One Has To Force Xbox To Port Exclusives To PS5
screenrant.comExclusive titles have always been a valuable tool in the perennial console war, and Xbox has long been supported by an array of games that can't be found on competing platforms. Much of the momentum that the original Xbox was able to gain against the juggernaut of the PlayStation 2 was thanks to, which stood out as an exceptionally strong exclusive with forward-thinking gameplay, an impressive campaign, and iconography that holds up today. Despite how far this strategy carried Xbox, however, it looks like the company might be turning away from it in a major way.
The recent track record of Xbox exclusives has been a little more complicated than it once was, in part thanks to the continual growth of the PC market. Xbox console exclusives are generally playable on PC on the same release day, which makes some sense considering that both platforms fall under the Microsoft umbrella. Xbox has also been a bigger proponent of crossplay than PlayStation, a step away from the battle lines drawn between consoles. At the same time, Microsoft has been acquiring game studios left and right, building up a burgeoning library of console exclusives after a comparative dry spell in the earlier days of the Xbox One.
As reported by, current buzz indicates that Xbox is looking to bring a number of major first-party titles to the competing platforms of the PlayStation 5 and the upcoming Nintendo Switch successor. An insider going by the username of SneakersSO on NeoGAF is one significant source of information on this topic, delivering the message to " regarding Xbox publishing titles on PlayStation and Nintendo platforms and mentioning current work on ports of several high-profile titles in another thread. suggests that there's at least some
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