Xbox Series X Could Launch Without Exclusives

<p>It would seem that Xbox Series X has no planned launch exclusives&period; In fact&comma; it seems no exclusives have been announced for even the first few years of the Xbox Series X&&num;8217&semi;s lifespan&period; Matt Booty&comma; head of Xbox Game Studios has said they&&num;8217&semi;d rather focus on releasing first-party games across the entire Xbox console family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is good news in a sense&comma; though&semi; As it means any Xbox Series X first-party titles will also be available on older Xbox consoles&period; At least for the next few years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As our content comes out over the next year&comma; two years&comma; all of our games&comma; sort of like PC&comma; will play up and down that family of devices&period; We want to make sure that if someone invests in Xbox between now and Series X that they feel that they made a good investment and that we’re committed to them with content&period;” &&num;8211&semi; Matt Booty<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>This is a change for Microsoft as console generations have hard fairly hard splits between their libraries&period; Microsoft has always focused on keeping their consoles backward compatible to a degree&period; So this is a change in trends for the company to focus on keeping first-party titles non-exclusive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"0tUqIHwHDEc" title&equals;"Xbox Series X - World Premiere - 4K Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;0tUqIHwHDEc"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;0tUqIHwHDEc&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Xbox Series X - World Premiere - 4K Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">A Shift in Focus<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Both Sony and Microsoft have always focused on giving exclusive first-party titles&period; Especially for console launches&period; Giving gamers a good reason to upgrade has always been giving good exclusive titles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is a tad bit worrying that Microsoft is banking so hard on the hardware selling their new console&period; Exclusive games often tend to be what sells systems more&period; Although given the option to play a game on a more powerful system could be an appealing notion to some hardcore gamers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But I doubt most casual gamers would care which system they&&num;8217&semi;re playing <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;xbox-not-getting-arcade-game-halo-fireteam-raven&sol;">Halo<&sol;a> on as long as they can play it&period; And if they can play it on a cheaper older system&comma; they will&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Thanks to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;game-debate&period;com&sol;news&sol;28198&sol;microsoft-wont-release-xbox-series-x-exclusive-games-for-the-first-few-years" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Game Debate<&sol;a> for providing info on this&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;