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/Substantial_Pound_82 4h ago

I'm all for it. Personally I think timed exclusive is a great compromise, but I'm all for competition. Sony and Nintendo have their console exclusives. Xbox should as well.

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u/ShrekBackShots 3h ago

I agree, when was the last time we had a good Xbox exclusive?

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u/breckendusk 2h ago

While I'm not personally a fan of COD, I think they screwed themselves in the short term by guaranteeing it remains cross console for the next decade or so. That one should have been a rug pull. "Play xbox if you want to play COD at all." Bad PR, but good business - people want to play cod games. If they pulled the servers from previous games, even stronger.

As a consumer, I hate being throttled, and would be big mad if I felt like this was happening to a game I cared about. But they spent a fuckton of money acquiring these studios and IPs, then did fuckall to capitalize on it. They screwed themselves hard.

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u/TheTiggerMike 7m ago

Government was threatening to get involved on it. IIRC Sony was also threatening litigation of their own. They had to make that concession to stave off the legal challenges. Probably wasn't the outcome they wanted. They absolutely gave away the store to get Activision Blizzard. Microsoft/Xbox is arguably in their current position because of this merger.

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u/Armin483 1h ago

Two weeks ago

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u/meatballranger 3h ago

Gears E Day just came out, so like last week

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u/ShrekBackShots 3h ago edited 2h ago

It’s on steam as well

Edit: guess kids don’t know what an exclusive is anymore