Xbox has offered a smidge more detail on what the heck is going on with its exclusive/cross-platform release strategy today, with Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball saying that players can expect a “reliable pipeline” of exclusives going forward.
This comes via an interview with The Game Business’ Chris Dring at Summer Game Fest, where Dring asked Ball which games would be exclusive going forward, and which would not. Ball did not answer Dring’s question directly, but explained that Xbox has “an internal framework and a strategy that we’re using to approach exclusives on and off-platform.” He also said it had been important for Xbox to announce the exclusivity of both Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution simultaneously “so that people understood this was not a one-off.”
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“Players can expect a reliable pipeline that validates their historical investment in the Xbox platform, keeps them as Xbox players going forward, and everyone in the industry understands that exclusives are important to the growth and branding of that platform,” Ball said.
He also said that there would still be games coming out on other platforms, but they would predominantly be games designed to be “large, live service, multiplayer” titles, as well as games that don’t fit that bill but for which Xbox has already made cross-platform commitments, such as Fable.
