There has been some confusion since then among certain players, who aren\u2019t sure what this means for console exclusivity in Xbox games going forward. The general message has been that live service and multiplayer games will remain multiplatform, but Gears of War: E-Day being console exclusive appears to contradict this rule.<\/p>\n
In an interview with GamesRadar<\/a>, Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty<\/a> and chief strategy officer Matthew Ball discussed this, with Ball suggesting that \u201clarge live-service titles\u201d would likely be multiplatform going forward, but that this didn\u2019t mean single-player games would all be console exclusive.<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t overly fixate on single-player,\u201d Booty added. \u201cI think that\u2019s a good rule of thumb, but it certainly isn\u2019t something that\u2019s carved in stone.\u201d<\/p>\n Explaining the process behind choosing which games are exclusive and which aren\u2019t, Booty said: \u201cWe are the stewards of over 20 game franchises that have made a billion dollars in their lifetime. There are a lot of different games in our portfolio, and we have to think about how different games serve different purposes within it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNot obvious to all of our players\u201d Booty and Ball conceded that the messaging hasn\u2019t been clear to some players, and that Xbox is working on making sure it\u2019s easier to understand in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a framework for these selections, including how we evaluate them,\u201d Ball said. \u201cI recognize that this approach is not obvious to all of our players, and we are committed to making this clearer.<\/p>\n Booty added: \u201cSomething you should look for from us going forward is that when we put a date on a game, we will also announce what platforms it is coming to.\u201d<\/p>\n The publication claims senior officials at Xbox said decisions were still being made on whether to make titles like The Elder Scrolls\u00a0 6 and other unannounced Activision<\/a>, Bethesda<\/a>, Blizzard<\/a> and Xbox Game Studios titles console exclusives or multiplatform releases.<\/p>\n The pair also reiterated that any games that were previously confirmed to be coming to PlayStation 5<\/a> or Switch 2<\/a> will still be coming to those systems, despite the recent pivot.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have titles where we have made a commitment to our partners and to our players that they were going to be multiplatform,\u201d Ball said. \u201cWe will be respecting this commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhile we\u2019re looking to be nimble, and it\u2019s fantastic to have the energy that\u2019s come with Asha\u2019s new leadership, we\u2019ve also got projects that have been in the works for a long time,\u201d Booty added. \u201cWe have to hit the right balance between the work that the teams have invested and a strategy pivot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xbox executives say it\u2019s working on making it clearer to players which games will be console exclusives and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-812127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Clockwork Revolution will be an Xbox console exclusive.<\/p>\n