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Forza Horizon 5 will be coming to PS5. Likely other xbox exclusives will too. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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What are your thoughts on this? Are you happy? Sad?

I'm extremely curious. If you asked me this as a kid, I would have been celebrating. I always thought games should be accessible to everyone. But now I'm questioning if Microsoft plans to keep the Xbox ecosystem alive.

Exclusive titles are/were the incentive to keep people on certain consoles. Currently, I think only gamepass and digital libraries would be the only reason to stay with Microsoft if they continue to make systems in the future.

Additionally, I'm curious as to how this could destabilize the market. With no direct competition for high end hardware (other than pc/the steam deck), Sony can kinda do whatever they please.

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[–] TyrianMollusk@lemm.ee 3 points 23 hours ago

I wish companies could do genuinely good things like release big games on more platforms, without everyone's response being hand-wringing about what bad things it might mean for their own hardware.

Especially when it's Microsoft, whose Xbox platform already extends into this tiny other thing people might have heard of, called Windows... I think they'll be ok, somehow.

I'm more interested in this being FH5, which is just switching into a kind of maintenance mode, where weekly activity playlists repeat instead of doing new things, and both of those before there's even talk about FH6. Adding significant new players to FH5 now seems an interesting choice.