Sea Of Thieves Could Lead To More Xbox Exclusives On Other Platforms

I felt pity for the XBOX CEO with his mindset by giving away their exclusive XBOX games to other consoles and never make genuine their exclusive XBOX games that suitable for everyone like Nintendo games + the idea from XBOX ONE to start DRM check for each time play, Must getting connected Online fir even playing Offline games, Not allowed to use second games, game pass, etc that from my perspective, those ideas are really stupid from peoples who have no passion in making video games that just only thinking about controversial ideas to build the future with false ideas in gaming.

The more we see XBOX exclusives one by one goes to other consoles, the even stronger my reason to NOT consider their future XBOX machines that become anti-consumer friendly with stupid ideas.

What can I get from their next XBOX machines?
They have NO Mario like games.
They have NO Animal Crossing like games
They have NO DDR style games.
They have NO Kinect style games anymore.
They have NOTHING to offer for me, so why I should I give any care for them when XBOX CEO keep being lazy, hungry for attention with worthless comments (thinking about Game pass on Switch then scrapped after that for example), keep thinking how to destroy gaming world with stupid ideas?
It just about getting more money for them but sacrifice the essential of video gaming for us.

Did not know it was releasing on playstation and not nintendo... now I'm sad. Want to play that Monkey Island content

@Scapetti it is coming to Nintendo. I can’t wait to play, hopefully it ports across well.

Microsoft decided a decade ago that their future is in services not hardware. XBox is simply Microsoft Home (as opposed to Microsoft Office) and much like their more serious software, they aren't too bothered where you play them...as long as you keep subbing to do so.
SO much emphasise these days on hardware and hardware sales, folk forget the money is in the software. The more systems that can play your games, the more money you'll collect from them. Especially for subscription models. THAT'S why you want hardware sales to be high, not to make bank on the low profit margins lol. And much like TV / film, they go to other platforms after a bit to collect more. Microsoft know what they are doing (and probably have a future vision none of us quite appreciate yet what with investing billions into cloud services - kinda like in the 80's, we didn't think folk would get disgruntled over a 3 second load whilst we were waiting 5 mins for a cassette to boot up!) Now if they were in first place in the industry, it's hard to tell how their strategy might be different. Probably a lot more self sustaining.
And if XBox fans don't know which company they are affiliated to...then there is no helping them. At least they will still get their branded XBox hardware to play Microsoft games on. The power of branding, huh!

@CairiB Where have you read this? I understood Sea of Thieves was PS only 'at the moment.' So I'm kinda holding out for a next gen nintendo version.

@Scapetti Don't be mis informed, there has been no confirmation of it coming to Nintendo consoles and depending on the Switch 2 specs it may not come in the future either unless it's in the form of a cloud version.

@CairiB if only... I can't see an official announcement so I'm not holding out hope. Might be a switch 2 release

@UltimateOtaku91 thanks, I was happy for a short lived moment haha

Also depends on whether Series consoles sales and Game Pass subs continue to stagnate.

But this is now a self fulfilling prophecy. The perception is Xbox games are now coming to Sony and Nintendo platforms so why bother buying an Xbox?

Big Phil (or his bosses) have pretty much killed their own platform.

@Scapetti Well you could always play it on your phone or tablet via the cloud gampeas app, you can use the switch pro controller.

@Anti-Matter
I can honestly say samething about Sony. Only console i iwn is a Switch ai mainly game on PC. Now that Sony have been putting thier games on PC, i just wait for the inevitable port.

Honestly i think in the next few years the term exclusive will only be Nintendo, and consoles as PC will get both Sony, and Microsoft 1st party games almost day one.

@illmatic20xx Multiplayer games on PC (and other consoles) make sense. Single player games, less so. Maybe after a long period of time, put them on another console/PC and sell it again to new customers for full price.

I can't say I'm looking for any Xbox exclusives to come to the Switch. First off, I have no idea what their exclusives are. Secondly I've got more than enough amazing games to play on the Switch already. Finally, I owned the first Xbox console and there were very few games I enjoyed on it.
In addition, like other people mentioned already, Xbox's communication is imo quite bad. Making "exclusives" that are not even exclusives XD

@illmatic20xx
I played mostly 3rd party kids games for both PS4 & PS5 in physical release so I don't even need the ported 1st party Sony games on PC which I never like those games.
The only 1st party Sony games I played are Ratchet & Clank games, Sly Cooper games, Jak & Dacter games, PS3 Move games.

Also, I have a lot of games and machines from both Nintendo and Sony.
I have GBA games, NDS, 3DS, GameCube games, Wii, Wii U, Switch from Nintendo.
I have PS1 games, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5 games, PSP from Sony.
They have their signature games that I can collect from both of them.

I don't even care with games on PC when I still able to play the games on consoles / handhelds with physical media.
I'm not hungry for Ultra specs from PC, nor even care anything happened to PC gaming.

@UltimateOtaku91 true, I played psychonauts 2 on cloud and many of the gears of war games I missed out on. And wolfenstein. It's pretty great. But not enough on there now that I've not played to make the price worth it for me. Maybe worth it for halo mcc... just wish all these games were on switch. Could have sworn there were rumours of halo mcc on switch. I don't think it's the mostly unlikely thing in the world.

Hey the more the better! I’m pretty content because I have been wanting them to port sea of thieves for years. I’m really happy I can finally play it on the PlayStation.

lol The games are going everywhere no matter what, xbox is going down the toilet and needs the support of nintendo and playstation users who actually buy games.

oh RARE come home my dear child. You have been gone long enough.

Don't be shocked if/when Microsoft becomes one of the strongest 3rd party supporters the Switch 2 once it releases.

It's ridiculous to dangle carrots above our heads like this to try and force us to purchase these games to get games we actually want (flashes of CR: Ziplash) The last thing I want is to play Sea of Thieves, and Grounded isn't my thing either. But if I ever want a chance at playing Kojima's OD, I have to buy a pirate game full-price? Naw, that model makes no sense.

With the release of Hellblade 2, I hope Microsoft remembers that the Switch version of Hellblade exists, and puts it on sale.
I really want to play, but I don't want to pay full price.

Gotta say based on the last 2 generations of Xbox system almost every element does not appeal to me, the games, the management team and most of all the userbase.

Has to be one of the most toxic groups in any community, from games online to being so toxic I've seen them turn some online forums into deserted wastelands because people just got sick of them.

As for the games I could take it or leave it, if the master chief collection was on switch at a fair price I would consider it, same with a gears of war one, but beyond that even in the halo series with recent entries I've no real interest in the solo 343 stuff. Majority of exclusives for the brand in the last decade have failed to get above yellow on Meta

@Anti-Matter
Their current mindset is a race to an absolute bottom with the way they’ve trained their userbase into not wanting to buy games and instead expecting them to release on MS’ subscription buffet service day one, this isn’t sustainable with the cost of the modern development and just drains a lot of passion away from their devs when they essentially just exist to keep a buffet filled.

@GrailUK apologies, I could have sworn I read it in an article here quite a while ago 🙈

Sea of Thieves.... I'm so glad Microsoft bought Rare for the masterpiece that is Sea of Thieves......

@Anti-Matter You seem to care a lot. Why else you would you write such a long post? But not everything is about kids games. I think it's great we have multiple platforms to choose from. No need for fanboyism.

@Rodolfo6493 I think Microsoft totally forgot they released a Switch version. With the upcoming release Hellblade 2 there already are steep discounts on the first game for the Xbox and PC version. So I don't see it happening.
I am in the same boat. At the time I hoped for a physical Switch release. Skipped the first two sales and now the game hasn't seen a sale for years... Unfortunate because it is a good port and would buy it for 50% off.

@Yosti
I only play kids games and that's why I purchased both Nintendo and PlayStation machines for their kids games I can play from them.
The 1st party games I played majority from Nintendo games while the 3rd party games I played majority from PlayStation games.

Used to be XBOX have their good exclusive games such as DDR Ultramix 1- 4 on XBOX , DDR UNIVERSE 1 - 3 on XBOX 360 , Kinect games on XBOX 360. The reason I have those games from XBOX and XBOX 360 since I'm a huge fan of DDR games and I like Kinect games for being similar as Wii motion play.

But what can I get from current XBOX machine (Series X)?
Just NOTHING because Microsoft hate to make kiddie games like Nintendo exclusively for their Series X, I have zero interest with Forza, I really hate with their adult shooter games/ any adult games from them, they discontinued their Kinect games, their 3rd party games are exactly 99% SAME as PS4 / PS5 version, they just depend on Game Pass which very anti-physical gaming for me, why should I care with their current XBOX machine?

I would rather support both Nintendo and PlayStation since those brand really relevant here in my country Indonesia.
XBOX brand is pretty much dead in Indonesia like almost nobody have interest with XBOX.

@Anti-Matter Totally fine to support what you love. Just focus your energy on Nintendo and Playstation. What do you gain by talking zero interest and hate about the Xbox platform? I just don't understand why you care so much about the Xbox platform.

@Yosti
Because used to be XBOX and XBOX 360 have their exclusive games I have interest about.
Let me copy again my sentences.

Used to be XBOX have their good exclusive games such as DDR Ultramix 1- 4 on XBOX , DDR UNIVERSE 1 - 3 on XBOX 360 , Kinect games on XBOX 360.
The reason I have those games from XBOX and XBOX 360 since I'm a huge fan of DDR games and I like Kinect games for being similar as Wii motion play.

Microsoft gonna be the next SEGA?

More Xbox games on Switch?! That means... like... Call Of Duty? And... uh... the other Call Of Duty?

It would be hilarious if MS is a big 3rd party for Switch 2.

Well this marks Rare's first ever release on a playstation system.
Hopefully we get a Switch release as well.

@Anti-Matter wait. You said no animal crossing like game. But I'm told like a dragon 8 has an animal crossing like minigame. I've never played animal crossing before, so know nothing about it. But people have compared a minigame in like a dragon to animal crossing. And also it has a Pokémon like minigame too.

Like a dragon is on xbox as well as pc too.

@Anti-Matter like a dragon has a lot of kiddie minigames, I believe. Maybe give it a go. If not, then I'll leave you to it.

@Yosti @Rodolfo6493 Hellblade has been on my waitlist FOREVER. Hell, I never knew it had a sale EVER as I've been hoping to see one. I was just whittling down my huge waitlist and was debating removing it, but I'll just throw a bunch of Gold Coins at it to knock that price down. I had really hoped that for a physical release.

@MeloMan DekuDeals is a good site to see if a game has been on sale. Last time was 4 years ago

As a business strategy, spending almost $100bn in 5 years on publishers, sacking 9% of the workforce, releasing a few broken games on a subscription service that isn’t attracting as many users as anyone would suspect, and then admitting you need to sell stuff elsewhere because your user base doesn’t care about it is perhaps the dumbest way to run a company.

And yet they continue to throw money down a hole….

@Ultimapunch gotta be honest …. I too was a post-Microsoft-buyout-Rare hater …. However I’ve been playing Sea of Thieves and it is one of the funniest games I’ve played in the past couple of years…. Even bigger than the last “Zelda” and oh boy was I a Zelda fan.

Sea of Thieves is such a great adventure game that you’ve gotta try at least a couple of weeks to see its genius.

This game deserves to be on a Nintendo platform. I haven’t had this much fun in many years.

@WheresWaveRace RARE is dead. Sadly. You know it. Everyone does.

I think if XBox held onto their exclusives this whole time, they'd be in such better shape today. I remember seeing Ori the first time and being like wow... I'm really tempted to get an XBox now. Then it got ported to Switch, and I decided to hold off on getting an XBox. Same with games like HiFi Rush, Psychonauts, etc... They've got such a great, diverse stable of studios with great IP...but each time they share an exclusive, I feel like it hurts their brand, and the desire to buy their console.

aw jeez theyre pulling a chibi robo zip lash cut the crap and give the switch hi fi rush youd make my year

Oh wow, maybe I completely missed the news that Sea of Thieves is coming to Switch but I think that's great.

It's good to have options on which platforms we want to play games. Many games on popular, gimmick and obscure systems will be lost to time because there are so many people defending massive corporations and yelling how wrong it's to emulate anything, etc.

Friend of mine bought Zelda TOTK and instead of playing it 30 fps on Switch, he decided to emulate it on PC in 60 fps mode.

Having Sea of Thieves on Switch as an official release actually gives people a chance to play it on a less powerful hardware if they really want to.