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It’s the end of exclusives for PlayStation since their exclusives depend 90% on third‑party publishers, and they make very few first‑party games.— no third‑party publisher wants to make exclusives anymore. Square Enix and Konami have already stated that all their games will be multiplatform, and even smaller studios like the team behind Stellar Blade have already confirmed that Stellar Blade 2 will be multiplatform at launch. It makes sense — it’s just not sustainable for studios to develop for a single platform.

We’ve reached a point where even Xbox has more exclusives than PlayStation, since they have three times as many studios and produce three times as many games. Plenty of titles remain Xbox‑exclusive, at least temporarily (sometimes for years), like Avowed, South of Midnight, Starfield, etc.

I think there's a mistake—Keeper hasn't been announced for PlayStation; it seems to be exclusive to Xbox and PC. But what a great surprise! Double Fine really has a knack for creating original games.

It confirms the lessons they learned from Sea of Thieves. The only game from 4 (SOT, grounded, pentiment, hifi rush) that really succeeded on PlayStation is old service games (GAAS), and forza horizon 5 follows the same logic, another old GAAS. It makes total sense for these games to be multiplatform, mainly after many years!

I'm not saying this will be the only type of game, but it's clearly a profile of games that are more likely to be ported to other platforms, but not all games are worth it.

It clarifies Xbox's multiplatform strategy, which is much more nuanced than some might think: case by case and timed exclusive, depending on criterias like the type of game, the age, etc.. Phil spencer said it many times and again on destin's interview: Not all games! And case by case!

Afterward, I would avoid the usual extrapolations from media hungry for clickbait

Once again, this excuse, they are starting 2025 well! When you see the latest Indiana Jones that received the Digital Foundry award for the most beautiful game, and when you see how well it runs on the Series S, or like 99% of games, games like Forza Horizon 5, hellblade 2 or Stalker 2, whose own studio said they had no particular difficulties on the Series S and that it was even more difficult to optimize on PC. We know very well that there is a secret exclusivity agreement with Sony, this was confirmed by Xbox. Or they are really very bad, it can't be otherwise. And it's very possible that they are really bad when you see that they can't even optimize the game correctly for the PS5 Pro, even though this console supposedly has "more power".