r/videogames • u/Seraphayel • 9h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Microsoft is gauging interest in Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Minecraft becoming Xbox exclusives — yes, really

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-is-considering-making-fallout-the-elder-scrolls-and-even-minecraft-xbox-console-exclusive-surveys-detailed
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u/FanBladeFleshlight 7h ago

Sounds about right for XB. "Hey guys, we know we're 4th place in a 3 company market, with basically non-existent market share anywhere but the US, but how about we take a game that's crazy popular and guarinteed to make us a ton of money and lock it to a system people done want?"

Once again, we hear the loud bang of XB shooting itself in the foot.

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u/Gravemindzombie 5h ago

Probably the only way Xbox is going to realistically recover marketshare tbh, they need good exclusives on Xbox to recover from the beating Playstation gave them the last couple console gens.

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u/lefix 3h ago

Imho they need to start delivering on their existing popular exclusives, as well as creating new exclusives - like making bloodborne instead of making ds3 an exclusive. The already acquired so much talent, beloved studios, but they failed to capitalize on it big time.

If they instead start turning existing multiplatform IPs into exclusives, it’ll be a PR desaster.

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u/FanBladeFleshlight 5h ago

That doesn't make sense tho. They have less market share, console.prices have gone UP, and we're far enough into the gen that people have mostly already bought a console if they want it.

It's very, very infrequent that a single game causes a person to buy a console just for it, and with XB not really having the loyalty, trust, or interest of most gamers, they'd basically be cutting off a good 60% of their sales all in hopes of selling a handful of consoles.

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u/pinpoint_aim 5h ago

Next Fallout and Elder Scrolls games are next gen games

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u/FanBladeFleshlight 4h ago

And with how XB has gone in terms of console sales, and with people generally staying with whatever brand they already have, we'll be in the same situation, just with a different console.

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u/geaux124 3h ago edited 3h ago

Do you think that maybe the quality of the PlayStation exclusive games compared to Xbox may have played some role in gamer's decisions regarding which console to buy? Do you think it's just a coincidence that Sony began to pull away from Xbox when their exclusives were really taking off while simultaneously the Xbox exclusives fell off a cliff? If the next Fallout and Elder scrolls are not very good or just average, then no it probably won't sell a lot of consoles. But what if they turn out to live up to the hype? What if the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout are the next gen equivalent of Witcher 3 or Baldur's Gate 3?