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… Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty and CEO Asha Sharma recently said the company will “reevaluate our approach to exclusivity.” While that might mean a retraction from Xbox’s recent strategy of putting its flagship games on PlayStation where longtime mascot Master Chief is heading soon , maybe X… …
… Then there’s cross-platform play, which made platform-locked communities far less valuable. …
… Schreier had previously reported on the shift in March, saying that Sony scrapped plans to launch PC versions of last year’s Ghost of Yōtei and “other internally developed games.” Online games will still come to multiple platforms following this change in strategy, Schreier reported at the time. …
… When a PC version arrives years after the console launch, much of the early lifecycle demand has already been captured on the primary platform." Sony's reported strategy change, which the firm has yet to comment on, arrives alongside the leadership shakeup at Xbox which may herald a shift in releas… …
… "When I was working on the game development side, first-party at PlayStation, from a strategy standpoint, we were not allowed to bring our triple A games to other platforms like PC," Yoshida explained. …
… Part of this lack of commercial success may be due the delay between console and PC launches, which would stem from Sony attempting to protect its hardware sales and ecosystem, which is the opposite of the strategy we've seen Xbox take recently , with its shift to a multi-platform approach that lea… …
… This strategy is then further buoyed by services like Game Pass, which expect players to invest in a vast and rewarding ecosystem that relies on multiple different platforms to exist. …
… "If Sony was releasing new triple-A games on day one on other platforms, I don't think that's a good strategy for a platform holder like PlayStation," he said. …
… But, historically, Sony is a consumer electronics manufacturer, and putting devices in boxes and selling them remains at the core of its strategy. …
… "This shift represents a significant opportunity for PlayStation as a platform," Totoki said. …