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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".

The most beautiful game of 2024 is by far Hellblade 2. Even in terms of artistic direction, sound atmosphere, and staging, it is a masterpiece.

PS: Why mention PS+ availability and not Game Pass availability?

Bad year for PlayStation: 3 out of 10 games are PlayStation exclusives that are among the worst games of the year: Concord, Lego Horizon, Silent Hill. Fortunately, there's Astro Bot to raise the level a bit, even if commercially it doesn't live up to the huge marketing campaign for this game.

Great response from TOM Warren to that PlayStation troll! The PlayStation console will never be able to play all Xbox exclusives, only the rare games that Xbox is willing to send. But let's not dream, games like Gears, Avowed, Forza, Fable, Perfect Dark, State of Decay, Halo, South of Midnight, Clockwork Revolution, will remain on Xbox. Don't forget that only 4 exclusives have been ported to PlayStation, which is nothing compared to all the Xbox licenses and all exclusives xbox games.

Moreover, the Xbox portable console will have Game Pass, play anywhere, in addition to being able to run Steam games, Xbox games, and PlayStation games. Features impossible for an playstation handled console! It's a guaranteed hit if it gets confirmed.

Age of Empires 2 original is 25 years old and was on PS2. And the remastered version is 5 years old! It's clever of Xbox to put some old licenses on other platforms, it will encourage people to get to know the franchise, and access the latest exclusive version on the Xbox ecosystem. This will push people to subscribe to Game Pass, and in the process, it will fund Xbox exclusives.

It's nothing at all, just 50 games, and we don't even know the extent of the optimization. It doesn't mean that there will be PSSR in the list! Major games like Cyberpunk, RDR2, Black Myth Wukong, Dragon's Dogma, Metaphor ReFantazio, Destiny 2, the Like a Dragon series, Persona, Dead Rising, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, MLB The Show, many Final Fantasy games, and so many others are missing. The list is already too long.

It's obvious that most developers will skip this console, which will sell very little given the price, the few differences, the bad buzz around it, and the few optimized games.

Thanks to Xbox, which is very advanced in accessibility, and which pushed Activision to do the same with Black Ops 6, we can only congratulate them for that and for this excellent game

"Small" correction, Currently, there are 501 games on Game Pass console and 452 on Game Pass PC! "You can easily check the official list of Game Pass games on the Xbox website.

But yes, Game Pass is just fabulous and getting better and better! I'm eagerly waiting for Stalker 2 and Indiana Jones.