Following a solid month or more of rumours surrounding Microsoft’s plans for some of its exclusive games, the floodgates were opened last weekend following our exclusive report regarding Starfield. It was followed by additional information from Tom Warren via the Verge stating that Bethesda and Machine Games newest Indiana Jones title is also under consideration.
Microsoft couldn’t stay silent any longer, promising a business update later this week and today, we have more information. Xbox have confirmed the date, time and interestingly, the format – a podcast.
Expect plenty of new details during the week, and the team at XboxEra will be reporting live as details emerge. Will we finally get confirmation on Hi-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves and more? Will Xbox answer the many questions Xbox fans have been asking?
The update is scheduled to drop Thursday February 15th at 12PM PT / 3PM ET / 8PM GMT
We’ll update this article when we have more.
I don’t think we’ll have much patience with more vague rumor talk again. If something actually happens then fine, but more vague teasing from insiders? Not interested
It’s coming from Nate but yeah, I’m just tired with all this 3rd party discourse, I don’t really believe it, but who knows I guess.
ya its getting old but again when you put your games on other platforms this is the talk that is gonna happen
Yeah, let’s just wait and see. I believe there is actually people within Xbox pushing for this, mainly the “finance” folks, but Phil calls the shots so I guess we will wait “if” it does happen.
Is this rumor comming from natethehate? if so how reliable is he?
I think at this point we should accept Xbox is open to the idea of putting their first-party games on other systems on a case by case basis.
How many first-party Xbox games on other systems is “acceptable” for you as an Xbox fan? That´s up to you. In the moment I am writing this I am personally not worried about this.
The thing that I don’t get though is that if Xbox didn’t go 3rd party in the difficult (from a resources/budget perspective) Xbox One generation why would they do that now that finally the results of their various acquisitions will come to fruition with a very very strong 1st party line-up coming up plus having fuckin’ CoD potentially a day one Game Pass release? if anything right now MS is in their best position ever to make a big splash in the gaming industry and gain marketshare.
Going 3rd party now simply doesn’t make any sense.
none are acceptable to me. I feel like making the quake remasters multiplat was a miss. I look at 2 games on ps ico and shadow of the collosus. These games will never come to xbox but most people arnt buying them so you can make the argument that they should. However it still makes the ps library and platform more appealing. Thats what xbox misses out on when they do stuff like this. I think the fallout 3 rumored remaster and oblivian remaster should not be multiplat for this reason but i think they will be
There’s only one recently acclaimed Xbox game I can think of, and I refuse to believe they’d do something that boneheaded.
Honestly, if it’s a game published by XGP like Ori, or even Contraband that’s fine, but first party games made by a studio owned by MS, unless it’s multiplayer already and has a established player base, putting a single player game on competing platforms will just lead to more questions about Xbox’s commitment to its longtime fanbase.