I find this to be a very funny point given that there was a report shortly after the Bethesda deal closed that Sony was negotiating to make Starfield a Playstation exclusive.
@PETERAKO: I still go back to it every so often. I enjoyed the Olympics expansion a lot more than the base game. This sounds more similar to the Olympics stuff, so I'll probably pick it up.
@xshinobi: Not to mention, that big Kotaku story that came out about the death of the Visceral game mentioned them having to get approval over the cosmetic stuff from Disney/Lucasfilm, so there's other evidence of this as well.
@Barighm: "I know I said that but it happened anyway"
But how much of that has happened since Phil took over? I don't recall a whole lot of Xbox exclusive DLC for third party games in the last couple of years. The last one I can think of is The Division got timed exclusivity on I think the first DLC pack (which might've been a deal that pre-dated him given how long it feels that game was around before it actually came out).
His reference to "yes, I know we've done it too" was to the Call of Duty deal that happened well before he was in charge.
@fedor: In most cases (possibly all, I wasn't paying close attention to what had what label), the things they showed that were timed exclusives were smaller indie games, and for a lot of those smaller studios, they don't have the resources to launch on every platform at once, so they essentially become timed exclusives, even without the platform holder incentivizing it.
In the case of something like Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, the developers had pretty much said all along that it was likely to come to Xbox One first because they have an early access program, and Sony doesn't.
So just because some indie titles will be timed exclusive doesn't mean that anything has changed with regards to what Phil said.
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