Xbox Business Update Confirms Four Exclusives Going Multi-Platform, Reveals Diablo 4 Game Pass Date

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Xbox revealed its "vision for the future" today in a podcast featuring executives Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and Matt Booty, who did their best to articulate the path forward for the platform amid reports of plans to embrace a third-party publishing strategy.

The business update confirmed that four games will be releasing on other platfoms, though Xbox did not provide additional details. It also revealed Xbox's plans for Activision Blizzard games on Game Pass while teasing the "largest technical leap you will have ever seen in a hardware generation" for its next console.

Here's everything that was announced.

The biggest news was Xbox's confirmation that four games will indeed be going multi-platform. Spencer declined to name the games, saying only, "The teams that are building those games have announced plans that are not too far away. As we know, games teams put a lot of energy into their announcements and partners. So I don't wanna take anything away from those teams, so I won't be talking about the titles specifically, but I think when they come out, it'll make sense."

Asked whether Indiana Jones and Starfield will be among the games going multi-platform, Spencer said "they are not." As for the four games that will be going multi-platform, The Verge reports that they will be Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded.

The Xbox Wire post reads, "To ensure long-term success for both Xbox and the industry as a whole, we must continue to evolve. Today we announced that we will expand the communities we reach: we are currently in the process of bringing four Xbox games to other platforms. These are titles which have been available to Xbox players for at least a year, including hidden gems that deserve to be experienced more widely, and live service games whose communities will benefit from welcoming even more players. We will share more details on these titles soon.

The update also confirmed that Diablo 4 will be coming to Game Pass on March 28, with this being