@Jez Corden
How can we say "so aggressively", what objective arguments allow you to say that? Only 4 first party games have been ported to other platforms, and we are talking about 2 old service games from 5 and 8 years old and 2 small games which sold very little (pentement, hifi rush). Where is the aggression?
I am of course not talking about Indiana Jones which is a Disney license and historically multi-platform games.
Xbox has 3x more studios and 3x more exclusive licenses than Paystation, these few games sent to other consoles are a drop in the ocean! Where is the aggression? If you do the math correctly, Xbox has more exclusive games that have been released and will be released than PlayStation, it's a fact, I invite you to make the list! Where is the aggression?
With the strength of game development that Xbox has, I'm not shocked that some games are released on other platforms, when an Xbox game is released on another platform, 5 others are Xbox exclusive, not counting exclusive games from third party publishers like stalker 2, ark 2, 33 immortals, etc... Where is the aggression?
If you think that sending games as a pentiment or old service games that are already more than 5 years old is aggressive,
it's not core Xbox fans we're talking about, but hardcore Xbox fans, which you I'm obviously part of using these kinds of terms.
Be careful with the terms you use, there are already enough anti-xbox trolls who enjoy spreading fake news and false assumptions, there's no point in adding to them with this kind of caricature.
You don't really realize that these kinds of caricatures that you use, like also saying for example that Xbox would become third-party publishers, etc... these are the kinds of expressions which are then taken up by other media which result in disinformation.
You are well informed enough to know that this is false and that it is not that simple, it is simply part of a hybrid strategy which seems confusing to you from what I understand, but you are only adding confusion and darkness instead of bringing clarity.
You know very well that Xbox's main strategy is focused mainly on its own Xbox consoles, PC, mobile, the cloud, and platforms that have the gamepass.
The PlayStation and the Switch remain a small element of diversity in this hybrid strategy but in no way an end in themselves. (And ther is no gamepass on PS or switch as far as i know)
Besides, Xbox is the only one to have announced the next generation, which is a sign that they are not going to abandon the hardware. The simple fact that they continue to sign exclusive gaming contracts with third parties shows that it is important to keep a significant portion of exclusive games.
And it is! How can reality be so far from some people's perception of it? If not through caricature, lies, disinformation and false assumptions?
Nuance, balance! It's not all or nothing! Business is about balance, not a binary vision like some media can have!
This hybrid strategy is paying off, fortunately they don't bet everything on consoles, but that doesn't mean that they are abandoning the latter? Why would they continue to make regular updates for this last one in this case? Why bother creating a next generation? Why offer so many exclusive games, including with third-party publishers? It's simply that hardware, exclusive games are at the center of the strategy, as are gamepass, PC, cloud, mobile.
Balance! It is not 100% gamepass, 0% xbox console as the closed and fantasized vision of some would have you believe.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket, it's an essential principle in business. It’s not complicated to understand though!