With many still confused by Xbox’s seemingly contradictory gaming plans, a new report attempts to clear everything up. Despite having a lot of hotly demanded exclusives coming to the Xbox platform, like next year’s Fable reboot and Gears Of War: E-Day, for most of this year fans have been reckoning with the possibility of Microsoft going third party.
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Ever since it decided to port several key exclusives to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch, the past year has seen Microsoft open itself up to releasing more and more of its first party games on rival platforms. Recently, it was claimed that Xbox exclusives will eventually stop being a thing entirely, once Microsoft gets its various developers used to the concept. Now, comments by Microsoft’s CEO only seem to embolden that line of thinking, with the company also said to be interested in some kind of cross-platform interface.
First things first, during Microsoft’s latest shareholders meeting, CEO Satya Nadella was pressed on the progress of the company’s current gaming strategy. For his part, Nadella sounded extremely optimistic about how things are working out. ‘We chose the secular growth category in entertainment, which we think is gaming, and said, let’s double down on it, let’s – and it’s been a passion for Microsoft ever since,’ said Nadella.
