According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the company wants to put its games “on every platform”. Just recently, Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of Combat Evolved, is now heading to PlayStation consoles at launch, a first for the series.
Earlier this year, Gears of War: Reloaded made the jump to PlayStation 5, as will Microsoft Flight Simulator 2025. Many Xbox exclusives have slowly been heading to different consoles. Now, it seems this is the start of many, maybe even ending the exclusivity fans have come to respect forever.
Microsoft Wants Its Games To Be Everywhere, Says CEO Satya Nadella
The news comes from TBPN, as the group chatted with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the company’s new partnership with OpenAI. The CEO talks a bit about Xbox and the ‘end’ of the console wars. In the clip, transcribed by GameFile’s Stephen Totilo, Nadella states,
“Remember, the biggest gaming business is the Windows business,” says Nadella to TBPN. “To us, gaming on Windows, and of course Steam – has built a massive marketplace on top of it and done a very successful job of it. So to us, the way we are thinking about gaming is; let’s first of all, now we are the largest publisher, after the Activision [deal] so therefore we want to be a fantastic publisher, similar approach to what we did with Office. We’re going to be everywhere, in every platform. We want to make sure, whether it’s consoles, whether it’s the PC, whether it’s mobile, whether it’s cloud gaming – or the TV; we just want to make sure the games are being enjoyed by gamers everywhere.”
It’s not too surprising to see Microsoft and Xbox shed the exclusivity factor. Many games, like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, sold less than stellar due to sticking to one console. While it’s franchises, especially Halo, never seemed to have that problem, it may lead to more sales. Still, the recent shift, plus lackluster sales of Xbox Series X|S, do ring out a touch off for the once-influential company. Whether it’s next console, rumored for a 2027 release, is going to include big changes is unclear.
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