Is 'Forspoken' Coming To Xbox? Maybe, But You'll Need To Be Very Patient

Not bothered as honestly from the gameplay showed looked average at best.

FFVII Remake was supposedly advertised as an 1-year exclusive if I recall and look how that turned out. Chances are we never see this one either.

"Thankfully, timed exclusives are becoming less of a thing these days, especially from the Xbox side of the industry"

Didn't you watch their showcase?

Off the top of my head I can think of a few,
Stalker 2, Scorn, ARK 2, flintlock, high on life and that robot farming game. Plus the many over the last year or so such as the medium, gunk, the acsent, call of the sea, Tunic, 12 minutes etc

@UltimateOtaku91

Can you please stop with your false equivalence bullsh*te please, it's getting tiring and predictable as the Saharan desert weather 😒.

Not one of the games you mentioned are even remotely comparable to the exclusivity time frame Sony is money-hatting for. Just stop!

"November release. As a result, it won't come to Xbox platforms any earlier than January 2025, due to a two-year exclusivity window. 2025!!"

I don't think its a stretch to say that this will never come to Xbox, judging by the FFVII Remake.

@Sol4ris I have no problem with timed exclusives from either of them, sony focus on one or two big games for a longer deal whilst xbox focus on a multitude of smaller games for 3-6 months, I understand that, but this article just seemed false in trying to say xbox are moving away from timed exclusives, as they obviously aren't.

@Sol4ris buying Bethesda isn't comparable? Not sticking up for Sony, but that is money hatting right there. Neither company is the golden boy here.

this one never grabbed me really

Sony just needs to get the acquisition done. After xbox has bought so much its only bound to happen that sony does something especially with a company with the long and friendly history like square. Not to mention take nintendo out and the games sell like 90% on PS anyway

Looks super meh anyways

Didn’t even know this cringefest would be coming to Xbox. No loss.

@uptownsoul
"nobody's drawing any equivalency on the length of timed exclusivity..."

Don't have to, the two are inextricably linked. Microsoft's blurb keeps going on about "on Xbox first" but the vast majority of the games have such short launch time frames between the two consoles that it just makes MS look desperate and the announcements pointless.

...then we have exclusivity periods of up to two years in some cases from Sony on third-party games. And no, the irony is not lost on me regarding Microsoft's spending spree on acquiring entire publishers, its most definitely terrible.

Hopefully this gal's acting is better in Forespoken than it was in Netflix's Resident Evil....

At which point you have to wonder…what is the point. Tbh 2025 I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony own square and we’ll never see this on Xbox. I also wouldn’t be surprised if gamepass is on PlayStation and MS ensure we don’t even need an Xbox by 2025. And I really wouldn’t be surprised if the game isn’t even worth the wait (I won’t have to wait regardless).

There’s definitely none of this 3/6month exclusive window nonsenses with Sony though, that’s for sure!

Why is PureXbox posting an article about a delayed PlayStation (timed?) exclusive at all, let alone doing so before Push Square does, connecting it to Xbox purely by the hypothetical the timed exclusivity means it will come to Xbox eventually.

I get times are bad in Xbox land to have exclusive things to talk about if Bethesda isn't saying much about Starfield again, but, I shouldn't be getting my PS news from PXB before PS is even talking about it. Fanning console wars is a bad look.

Granted, I still haven't seen anything about this game that makes me particularly interested in paying more than $29.99 for it, but surely there's more to talk about that's interesting to Xbox owners than PlayStation delays?

Microsoft paid for timed exclusivity on a next gen upgrade. That was on another level.

Sony are a bit out there with the length on some of theirs but it is a bit misleading to say its becoming less on Xbox. It really isnt. They are both at it, just in different ways.

Square Enix has made it easy to not be a fan of their games as someone who owns an Xbox. Between this and their NFT nonsense, I truly have no desire to play anymore of their games.

It's never coming to Xbox. It's like FF7 Remake, a permanent console exclusive for Playstation

@Jaxx420 Sony does it WAY more. Name one Xbox and I can name you at least two Sony.

@Chaudy It's possible if it becomes a smash hit win for the PS identity, (as FF is) it'll stay PS, but if it fumbles out of the gate (and I imagine it will) they'll recoup some money by bringing it multiplat eventually. But by then it'll be dirt cheap on PS and part of Extra, if not a Essentials freebie.

@UltimateOtaku91 I mean Cuphead didn't come to Playstation for a whole 3 years after Xbox. Not to mention others before it. They both do these deals. It really has slowed down more on Xbox if we're being real. However, Jim Ryan did warn that these deals were in place already. So no shock there.

This is legitimately the first time I've heard of this game.

Saw the name and read it as Forsaken. Which reminded me Forsaken 64 is on Xbox and I need to pick that up.

I'm not really bothered as I'm sure I'll have a ps5 by then assuming I'm still alive.
@Sol4ris actually I think my man has a point for once. Didn't even know this false narrative existed but px is tryna push for it 😂

@NEStalgia
Push Square wrote about this already

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/07/ps5s-forspoken-release-date-delayed-until-24th-january-2023

@Atreus97 Oh this is the same delay reported weeks ago? I'm not sure if this is better or worse an article then lol. I remembered that article, and commented on it, but I thought a new article meant a new delay.

Why does this article exist?

@NEStalgia
Honestly? This article exists so that the fanatics of one multi billion dollar organisation can argue with the fanatics of another multi billion dollar organisation.
It's what keeps the lights on around here

Hadn’t even heard about it until this article. There are other more interesting games.

@UltimateOtaku91 not only that but they've just bought two of the biggest publishers in gaming why pay for timed exclusivity when you can just buy a big publisher & make a bunch of games that would've been multi platform exclusive lol

@Atreus97 Yep, can't say it better, myself

@UltimateOtaku91 I think there is huge difference between paying for development of indie game like Stalker 2, Scorn, Ascent etc. and moneyhatting games from huge publisher like Deathloop, GhostWire, Final Fantasy, KOTOR Remake etc.

Like, nobody is mad at Sony that they moneyhatted Kena Bridge of Spirits, Stray and stuff like that. Because everybody can understand difficulty of game development and money from Sony probably got devs better sleep at night.

But to moneyhat Square Enix? One of the biggest publisher on Earth? Sorry. That's not cool at all.

But whatever. Forspoken looks terrible, so it is not that big of a loss and I literally don't care about Final Fantasy at all. Deathloop will be out this year in Game Pass and GhostWire next year also on Game Pass. And since KOTOR is a remake I'll just wait .

@UltimateOtaku91 Hey, just to be clear on this, I meant important/major timed exclusives. My bad, should have been clearer on that. Yes, Xbox still retains some timed exclusives (often mid-tier/indies that probably need the promo/funding), but typically, they've moved away from the big Rise of the Tomb Raider-esque deals that Sony still seems to be striking, esp with Japanese teams.

@dsar9012 couldn't agree more, unfortunately my Xbox has gathered so much dust recently and it's sad to see, I was Xbox through and through since the original, but as it stands I just don't have enough reason to boot it up or upgrade it to the series X, I'm sure the time will come, but when that will be who knows.

Get both machines!! Play everything!!