Yes, More Xbox Games Will Be Going Multiplatform

It seems that, much to my surprise, other people were caught off guard to learn that more games from Microsoft-owned games studios will be making the jump to Playstation, and probably Nintendo consoles (specifically the Switch 2).

I wrote with some sense of stating the obvious earlier in the year of the first set of four games leaving the ranks of Xbox exclusivity, to the delight of Microsoft accounts and the chagrins of fans who had bought into the Xbox as their primary (if not sole) console of choice. At the time I wrote that there would be more games making the jump to other consoles in the future, primarily because it seemed clear to me that would be the case. Now that Phil Spencer has confirmed as much it looks to have come as something of a shock, at least to some.

While speaking during the IGN Live show after the recent Xbox showcase, Mr. Spencer revealed that DOOM: The Dark Ages would launch on PS5, as well as PC alongside Xbox. On top of that Mr Spencer said ‘You’re going to see more of our games on more platforms’.

As I wrote before, this is Microsoft’s strategy: sell subscriptions. Microsoft are a software company, not a hardware one; selling subscriptions to Gamepass is what Microsoft are comfortable with—no matter what anyone at Xbox may or may not feel about the matter.

People would do well to stop looking at the games that Microsoft produce as Xbox games, and start looking at them as Gamepass games.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Returning to the black hole that is Football Manager.