00:00Remember when a console was judged by the quality of its exclusive games?
00:05That feels like a completely different era of gaming now, given that Xbox has spent the
00:09past few years on the game.
00:10For the last few years, bringing its games to other platforms, Xbox President Sarah Bond
00:14has activated the game.
00:15It's actually gone as far to say that the idea of exclusives is looking downright
00:20antiquated.
00:21This is because the biggest games in the world are increasingly looking like platforms
00:25in their own right.
00:27She says the biggest games in the world are available everywhere.
00:30You look at Call of Duty, Minecraft, Fortnite, Roblox, that's where people gather and
00:35they have experiences and the idea of locking it to one store or one device.
00:40This is antiquated for most people.
00:42You want to be able to play with your friends anywhere.
00:45Regardless of what they're on, in this respect, Xbox is increasingly positioning its
00:50as less of a platform to play games on and more of a service to play games.
00:55through.
00:56Exclusives don't really help the argument in that case.
00:59It's an interesting shift.
01:00in perspective from Xbox here, but given the success of PlayStation exclusive games like
01:05Astro Bot, I'm not so sure they are totally antiquated just yet.
01:10What do you think?
01:11What do you think?
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