00:00Xbox recently announced a return to exclusivity. Gears of War E-Day will only be available on
00:05Xbox Series X and S and PC when it launches later this year, as will the upcoming Clockwork
00:11Revolution with more to come in the future. But not every game coming out of Xbox Game Studios,
00:16Bethesda, and Activision Blizzard will follow suit. Minecraft Dungeons 2 and Grounded 2 are
00:21both hitting other systems later this year, and Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball tells us
00:26that large live service titles will also be multi-platform moving forward as well.
00:31If big multi-platform games are launching everywhere, then some fans might reasonably
00:35expect signature single-player games to remain Xbox exclusive. Speaking to GamesRadar,
00:40Chief Content Officer Matt Booty explains that's not necessarily the case. I wouldn't overly fixate
00:46on single-player. I think that's a good rule of thumb, but it certainly isn't something that's
00:50carved in stone. Booty continues, there are a lot of different games in our portfolio,
00:55and we have to think about how different games serve different purposes within it.
00:59Ball was a little more frank, saying he knows this approach is not obvious to all of our players,
01:04but the company is apparently committed to making this clearer.
01:07Right now, Xbox's strategy is to not announce platforms until a game is closer to shipping,
01:12and we know marquee multiplayer games will try to attract eyeballs from everywhere.
01:17So expect future Call of Duties to remain available on rival consoles.
01:21The fate of single-player games, such as Hideo Kojima's OD or The Elder Scrolls VI,
01:26remains up in the air, however.
