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Can “no red lines” live alongside “case by case basis”?
That’s what some Xbox fans are asking today.
Xbox fans debate Xbox’s opaque messaging.
At the time, Microsoft said the plans were for those four games only, until it wasn’t.
Xbox fans are scrambling to figure out what these below statements mean for a variety of reasons.
However, others are concerned about what it could mean for their Xbox game libraries long term.
Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and Matt Booty discuss Microsoft’s gaming future earlier in the year.
Google took a write-down and refunded customers to the tune of millions of dollars on Stadia’s closure.
Will Xbox be in a position to refund customersbillionsof dollars if Xbox were to close down?
And it’s not like Surface wasn’t successful; this was once a multi-billion dollar segment for Microsoft.
The Xbox Series X|S platform has suffered year-over-year declines for several quarters.
As noted, this isn’t out of step with what Microsoft has previously said.
But is it taking Spencer’s “red lines” comment out of step?
Ports will likely still happen, but it’ll be after the fact.
“And each of our studios is in a little bit of a different position.
Theres also the production timeline on a game, so the decision on spacing comes there first.
We want to double-check theres a great experience for our Xbox players.
[Indiana Jones] was a game that was in production before we acquired Bethesda, even.”
Starfield has thus far been Xbox exclusive, but Bethesda and its subsidiary studios are historically multi-platform teams.
Other teams at Microsoft have historicallyneverbrought games to PlayStation.
So would either need to invest in that expertise internally, or get port studios involved.
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