4 Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5 and Swap

It is official: Microsoft is bringing Xbox-exclusive video games to different consoles. As revealed by Phil Spencer, the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, on the Official Xbox Podcast, gamers can anticipate to see a slate of 4 video games broaden past Xbox and PC. Whereas this presumably means the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Swap, Spencer didn’t share specifics.

Moreover, no video games had been introduced simply but, however Spencer did affirm that Starfield and the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle would stay Xbox exclusives, no less than in the meanwhile. Spencer additionally mentioned that there’ll solely be 4 video games, every greater than a year-old, that can make the cross-over to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Swap.

In keeping with reporting from The Verge, the 4 video games Microsoft is bringing to different platforms are Hello-Fi Rush and Pentiment, which can then be adopted by Sea of Thieves and Grounded. Spencer went on to say:

“The groups which might be constructing these video games have introduced plans that aren’t too far-off. As we all know, sport groups put lots of vitality into their bulletins with the companions. So I do not need to take something away from these groups. So I will not be speaking in regards to the titles particularly. However I feel after they come out, it will make sense.”

He went on to specify that two of the video games are smaller experiences that had been “by no means actually meant to be” Xbox exclusives and that the opposite two titles are extra community-driven initiatives, which traces up with the checklist reported by The Verge.

Activision Blizzard video games coming to Sport Cross

Throughout the podcast, Microsoft additionally introduced that Activision Blizzard video games will quickly begin making their approach to Xbox Sport Cross. The enlargement will begin with Diablo IV on March 28. No different Activision Blizzard titles had been introduced for Sport Cross throughout the podcast, however presumably different Activision and Blizzard releases will comply with earlier than lengthy. Spencer was fast to notice that first-party video games will ideally all the time launch on Sport Cross and that the service itself will keep unique to Xbox.

{Hardware} future

The {hardware} facet of Xbox’s future was additionally touched on throughout the podcast, with some allusions to the following Xbox in addition to a attainable refresh for the Xbox Collection X and Collection S.

“There’s thrilling stuff popping out in {hardware} we will share this vacation,” mentioned Xbox President Sarah Bond. “We’re additionally invested within the next-generation roadmap. What we’re actually centered on there may be delivering the biggest technical leap you’ve got ever seen in a {hardware} technology.”

A massive leak in September revealed that Microsoft was engaged on a refresh of the Xbox lineup, with the precise risk that an up to date Xbox Collection X would shift to a extra cylindrical design. The documentation for the refreshed console got here out as a part of the FTC’s litigation into Microsoft’s buyout of Activision Blizzard.

Background

Within the weeks main as much as this version of the Official Xbox Podcast, rumors swirled about Spencer’s look on the present and what he can be saying. The announcement is tied into Microsoft’s ongoing push to make a extra open gaming panorama, beginning with the gradual phase-out of console-exclusive video games.

Spencer’s intentions had been first made clear on Feb. 5, when he took to X to say, “We’re listening and we hear you. We have been planning a enterprise replace occasion for subsequent week, the place we sit up for sharing extra particulars with you about our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Xbox. Keep tuned.”

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