Xbox Confirms Four First-Party Games Are Coming To PlayStation And Nintendo Switch

As an Xbox owner, cool.

Good for other gamers, good for the devs, costs me nothing.

Being loyal to a corporation is something you should grow out of as a teen. Sony and Xbox care exactly the same amount about you, which is to say not at all, regardless of which console you own and/or go to bat for in comments sections. I'm as committed to the company that makes my games console as I am to the one who makes my toaster.

Sea of Thieves and Grounded are both well worth checking out.

Wish we could get some of the PS exclusives, though. Sony really has Xbox beat in that regard.

Good. Tear down the walls. They're archaic from a time that games were not digital (and hardware actually mattered).

As a PS5 owner, you can keep your 4 junk games. When I read the title I was hoping for Forza.

Its been a strange gen and it seems next gen might be even stranger. Microsoft and Sony went from one making memes about the other over game sharing and TV, TV, TV to Sony putting their games on Microsoft Windows and Microsoft putting more games on PlayStation besides Minecraft , more cross-play games etc. Be interesting to see PlayStation games on Xbox but that's highly unlikely. You never know though. Either way, the next few years are going to be interesting to watch.

I bought 200 of shares MSFT last week. I expect great things

This is what I pretty much expected. I expected Sea of Thieves & Grounded to be prime members as they make the most sense and even belong on the Switch. Those are more for the kiddies and there is no reason to hold em back, In fact I can due without them personally. Hi-Fi Rush & Battle Toads are also good contenders.

But geeez, I feel like I am in a bath of marshmallows and bubbles with all the constant fluff that is spewed by Phil & company. If you REALLY want more people to play, then just drop your console and put your games for free on all the consoles. So lets just keep it real then and say that you want more money from new players to serve as the foundation for your decision. Money which can be back fed to create more games and make the console & brand even better. If Sony does not follow suit, they will be in trouble. This is just the start and we will see more & more games appear on opposing consoles. Expect to see the older Spidy games in two years on XB!

I really do hope XB makes a huge comeback, but I have been hoping this for years now. They also really need to bring back Backwards Compatibility and increase the game catalogue.

If putting their games on other platforms will result in more money at a time where their revenue is low, they'll do it. They fundamentally have to. The line must go up, it's their fiduciary duty. They are shackled to this rule.

Nintendo is a bit of a special case because their own games (as in, first-party games) break sales record all the time, so their line keeps going up. There may be some of that Japanese honor at play as well, where they'd sooner die than accept the shame of relinquishing their exclusives to another platform. They always find a way to bounce back without throwing the competition any bones.

It's interesting then, that PlayStation and Xbox are both doing poorly enough that they're being forced to become more consumer-friendly... out of greed. For once, their desperation for profits actually benefits us.

Well, to some extent anyway. The problem is, if all of a company's decisions are driven purely by money, none of their games will have much artistic or cultural worth. It will just be one forgettable trend chaser after another. So it won't matter that everyone can play them... it's like being subscribed to Game Pass on a really bad month. There's all these games you can play, but why would you?

It was very annoying to wait until the official announcement just to have Spencer say: "There'll be games coming to other consoles but I won't say which ones".

At least he was kind enough to say it within the first 2 minutes.

I can see Grounded and Sea of Thieves getting a ton of new players...hopefully MS has prepared the servers 🤣

Ok, I know a lot people are still saying that it is 4 1st party games I can say that it is not what you think.

This is what I have heard from the contact I have so for. Sea of thieves is one of them and Hi-Fi Rush isn't one of them right now, that could change but right now it's one of them. Also, when he said community base games. He means live stream games only. I have to say this wasn't as bad as many of us thought.

Now, this does mean Sony will never get Gears of War, Halo, Blade and more at this time. I have heard of a handheld console but hey I believe that one when I see it at this time. In other words XBOX is in good hands for the moment.

Going multiplatform with their live games makes sense. And Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment were both well liked smaller games that could make another small splash in a new market. Meanwhile the flagship titles are still exclusives.

Now Xbox just needs more of those flagship titles. Still.

They want people to buy a playstation instead of their console. That way they can stop making hardware and have less expenses and be entire profitable with gamepass. If that service is profitable at all. They'll probably raise the subscription price.

Community driven games? The hell does that mean?

@philip6k

Is this the announcement that was supposed to prove your statement that Sony is "getting all of xbox's exclusives"?

Can't say I care about any of those (or any in general). But glad this drama is over. Was fun, but ready to move on lol.