Phil Spencer announces: 4 games will be released on rival platforms

After many secrets and rumours, today (15), Microsoft finally spoke openly with its audience about the next steps in its business strategy. The first major announcement by Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, was the confirmation that four games will lose their exclusivity.

“Today we announced that we will expand the communities we reach: we are currently in the process of bringing four Xbox games to other platforms” Xbox said in the statement.

Inquiring about wich titles exactly would be affected, Phil Spencer dodged and said he preferred “not to name those games. The teams working on them have announcement plans that aren’t too far off. We know they put a lot of energy into these moments, and I don´t want to take the spotlight away from them”.

Phil Spencer also confirmed that “These games are not Starfield or Indiana Jones”.

“I do have a fundamental belief that over the next 5 or 10 years, exlusive games, games that are exclusive to one piece of hardware, are going to be a smaller and smaller part of the game industry”, Phild pondered.

Providing more hints about the 4 multiplatform games, Phil mentioned, “We’re thinking about games that have been released for more than a year. Games that have been on Xbox and PC for quite some time. Games focused on community, or the debut of a franchise”.

““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”.

The profile Wario64, journalist Benji-Sales, and the Japanease magazine Famitsu claim that HI-FI Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and Grounded will be the four games that will release on multiple platforms, but the information is not official yet.