Since Microsoft announced it last Monday, special edition of the Xbox podcastmeeting with Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty, the three main people responsible for the games division in Redmond, and announced as an update, we understand how important it is for the future of this part, always the most important, technological one.

It does not seem to be a coincidence that this event was called when many rumors appeared (some denied behind closed doors, others still unanswered) about the future of the console as well as the catalog of Xbox exclusives. Yesterday we were trying to predict what Spencer, Bond and Booty would tell us today based on the information that has been released so far, but it wasn’t until a few minutes before the podcast went live that we finally got confirmation of those future plans.

So at this point we can confirm that we were not wrong and that’s it Xbox has confirmed that some of what has been exclusive to its platform until now will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. Specifically, it will be four titles that will make the jump to the platforms of their rivals in the console market. Now, what games? Well, it looks like Microsoft has decided to play with the times as they haven’t confirmed what titles they will be, only announcing that they are games that have been available for at least a year as Xbox+PC exclusives.

So with the way Xbox is starting to approach the jump to other platforms, the first feeling they’re expressing is that This is more of a trial run than the first step of a more ambitious plan. already decided. In other words, we’re in for an interesting announcement, but the scope falls a bit short of what we might expect, even more so when we consider that they haven’t even revealed what the titles will be, and that after these four At first, it seems that we will have to wait a little longer before there are new movements in this sense.

Yes, we can expect none of these four games to be one of the big names in the house. Although there have been rumors of stellar titles such as Starfield, a Halo installment or the long-awaited Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, it seems that for now they will remain their own and exclusive to Xbox. Will they make that leap one day? It doesn’t look like that in the short term, whether they do it in the medium term will very directly depend on the outcome of that first move, which as I say sounds a lot like a test on which they will be in that sense will depend.

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A double confirmation, actually, given what we reported yesterday, although in this case we already knew Spencer had been communicating with staff about the matter. So we have confirmation that consoles continue to be an important part of Xbox’s future plans. In fact, in this regard They stated that the next generation could represent the biggest technical leap in Microsoft’s console history, in which they are said to be very involved. Could this be related to Xbox with Intel and NVIDIA?

Another recent rumor, that of a future portable Xbox, has been denied… half, and Spencer stated at one point that she likes laptops and that there aren’t any official plans for that right now… but that she loves them. Let’s remember “for now”. And yes, it looks like we’ll have to wait less than we thought for more news on this, as they’ve confirmed that next June there will be information about the future generation.

They finally confirmed something that was already leaked during the day and that’s it Diablo IV arrives on Game Pass for PC and Xbox on March 28 and speaking of their prepaid service, they revealed it it has already reached 34 million usersa more than remarkable figure

So to recap, Undoubtedly, these were the announcements we expected, though perhaps not to the level we expected. The confirmation of the next generation of the console was necessary due to the circumstances, and the transfer of exclusives to other platforms is very interesting. Of course, that was the key point of the announcement, which promised to shake the foundations of the industry, but to say that it will only be with four games, that we are not expecting any “headliners” and that they have not even revealed what the titles will be, It weakens a change of model that, yes, is hugely disruptive .

Personally, if I were a fan of either of the platforms that could benefit from this move, PlayStation and Switch, I would probably be a little cold, especially if you were expecting more games to arrive, or at least to know what games they would be. It almost looks like Microsoft is somehow trying to swim and shed its clothes, but it’s hard to make much of an impact.

Be that as it may, obviously We’re waiting to find out what these four titles areexclusive to Xbox until now, they are about to jump to other platforms and of course we will keep you posted as soon as this information becomes public, either through leaks or with the expected official confirmation of the list.

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