In order to ensure the development of the Xbox platform, Microsoft will still maintain the exclusive ownership of some games on the Xbox platform. For example, the series of works such as “The Last Battle”, “Forza Motorsport”, and “Prophecy of Gods and Ghosts” launched in the past, and Bethesda announced this year The new work “Starry Sky” will be provided exclusively on the Xbox platform.
Revealed that the future will focus more on the development of Xbox Game Pass
Although it has successively acquired many game studios in the past few years, and even completed the acquisition of ZeniMax recently and acquired game content assets such as Bethesda, it is clear that Microsoft’s game development strategy on the Xbox platform will not follow the way Sony focuses on exclusive works on the PlayStation platform, but Hope that the Xbox platform can help more game creators to attract players to support their works.
In an interview on the GamesRadar website, Microsoft’s head of Xbox Phil Spencer said that it would not follow Sony’s development strategy of attracting players through a large number of platform-exclusive works on the PlayStation platform, although the Xbox platform also has a lot of platform-exclusive content created by Microsoft’s game studios. But more games are still being released on different platforms to attract more players to support.
For example, the game content of Bethesda acquired through the acquisition of ZeniMax will not become a Microsoft asset and will only be played on the Xbox platform. It is emphasized that the multi-platform distribution model will still be maintained in the future, so that the game can be accessed by more users. Ethnic market.
Prior to this, Phil Spencer also emphasized that the Xbox platform will become the preferred platform for more people to play games, but it does not include attracting players through a large number of platform exclusive works, but hopes to attract more players through the Xbox game console experience. The Xbox Game Pass service, which is subscribed by a monthly fixed billing method, has also become a key project of Microsoft’s game development, allowing players to easily have more game content and game content can be played by more people, thereby forming Microsoft and game development The win-win situation for both vendors and players is expected to change the past game experience limited due to platform differences.
However, in order to ensure the development advantages of the Xbox platform, Microsoft will still maintain the exclusive ownership of some games on the Xbox platform, such as the series of “The Last Battle”, “Forza Motorsport”, and “Prophecy of Gods and Ghosts” that have been launched in the past, and Bethesda announced this year The newly launched “Starry Sky” will be provided exclusively on the Xbox platform. But on the whole, Microsoft is currently quite active in promoting the development of cross-platform games to expand the scale of the game market.
But for Sony, although there are still many exclusive games on the PlayStation platform, the current development strategy in the game market has also begun to change. For example, the “MLB 21” released in early February this year became the number one. A number of Sony-published games simultaneously launched on the Xbox platform, and this year, many games originally released on the PlayStation platform have been brought to the PC platform, and the PC platform can be matched with different hardware operating characteristics, allowing the game to add more details , Real-time light and shadow tracking effects and other applications, so that users can have a different play experience, but also allows the game content to attract more players.
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