Xbox Team 'Excited' And Wants To 'Learn' From Bringing Games To Other Platforms

It was announced in today's Official Xbox Podcast episode that Xbox is bringing four games to other consoles in the not too distant future, but apart from that, there's not a change to the brand's "fundamental exclusive strategy".

That said, in an interview with The Verge after the event, Xbox's Phil Spencer refused to rule out any Xbox first-party game going to another console in the future, choosing instead to highlight how excited the team is about these titles:

"I don’t think we should as an industry ever rule out a game going to any other platform. We’re focused on these four games and learning from the experience."

"But I don’t want to create a false expectation on those other platforms that this is somehow the first four to get over the dam and then the dam’s going to open and that everything else is coming, that’s not the plan today. I also don’t want to mislead customers on those other platforms. We’re launching these four games, and we’re excited about it. We’re excited about the announce and everything else, but we’ll see what happens for our business."

There are obviously a lot of unknowns for Team Xbox right now about how these four titles will perform on PlayStation and/or Nintendo Switch, so it makes sense to start with four older games and see how they translate to other consoles.

If they're successful, will that result in more Xbox exclusives making the jump in the future? It sounds very possible, although Microsoft has reiterated on numerous occasions already that it's just the four games that are planned for now.

"We think there's a good brand value for Xbox there. So four games, no promise beyond that. So if you're on those other platforms and you see these four games coming, please don't take it as some signal that everything's coming. It's not. And we're going to learn."

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[source theverge.com]