If you’re anXboxfan, you’re more than likely wondering exactly what the heck is going on at the moment with all these rumors regarding certain exclusives coming to other consoles. Over the past few days, it’s been heavily rumored from credible sources that the likes of Hi-Fi Rush and Sea of Thieves, as well as more recent and upcoming games likeStarfieldandIndiana Jones and the Great Circle, will be coming to PlayStation systems pretty soon.
It’s caused an outcry among Xbox fans worried about their system of choice, an outcry so loud that now even Xbox head Phil Spencer has had to acknowledge the backlash. In a recent tweet via his personal Twitter account, Spencer explains that he is aware of the current backlash and has announced that a “business update event” will take place next week which will outline Spencer’s “vision for the future of Xbox”.
That’s all the information that Spencer is willing to dish out at this time, and we’re yet to get a date for this “business update event”, but at least we’ll get some official answers as to what’s actually going on, rather than vague teases from industry insiders. Just the sheer existence of the event implies that at least some of the rumors are true, otherwise Spencer would just outright deny them, but we’ll have to wait and see exactly what Xbox has planned in regard to launching games on PlayStation.
We already know that Xbox has two exclusives coming in 2024 in the form of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 and Avowed, though that could change depending on what Spencer announces next week.
It was recently claimed thatXbox director Sarah Bond was going to reveal the platform’s new strategy this Spring, though it’s possible things may have been pushed forward due to the recent rumors and Xbox owners pushing for updates from the likes of Spencer and Bond on social media. It’s also claimed that Xbox’s reasons behind bringing the likes of Starfield and Hi-Fi Rush to other platforms are sales-driven, with the latter alsohaving been claimed to have underperformed despite rave reviews.
Whatever happens next week, chances are it’s going to reshape the industry as we know it, especially if the rumors are true and Xbox plans to dump most of its previous and upcoming titles on other systems. It’s been pretty clear for a while now that Xbox sees Game Pass as its ticket to the big bucks, and with the rumors thatthe platform may stop selling physical game copies pretty soon, it’s up in the air whether Xbox consoles will be a thing in the near future.
