Phil Spencer: “it doesn’t feel sustainable” to consider Xbox games on a case by case basis for Switch

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The obvious positivity of the [Microsoft and Nintendo] relationship has heightened expectations that more Xbox games could come to Switch, but in August of 2019, following news of Ori and the Blind Forest coming to Nintendo's machine, Microsoft issued a statement that there were "no plans" to put more of its games on other consoles. (Minecraft Dungeons, already announced for PlayStation and Switch, was presumed the exception).

A year later, though, another Microsoft-published game, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, was also released on Switch. Spencer categorized the Ori offerings as supporting the development studio's wishes. That team, Moon Studios, isn't owned by Microsoft and has subsequently entered a publishing deal with Take Two.

Where does that leave the prospect of more Xbox games coming to non-Xbox consoles? Spencer told me that "it doesn't feel sustainable" to consider Xbox games on a case by case basis for Switch and said, "In order to really support it, I would want a full Xbox ecosystem somewhere. And that probably means things like Live and Game Pass and stuff." He said something similar in July during an interview with GameStar, though the answer has changed slightly. Back then he said that "the other competitive platforms aren't really that interested in having a full Xbox experience on their hardware." I cited that answer to him and asked if it was still the case with Sony and Nintendo. "I don't want to speak for them," he said. "I think they should probably answer."

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Phil Spencer on porting further Xbox games to Switch: “it doesn’t feel sustainable."

Many other things from this interview (which already have threads), but I felt this one deserves its own topic as well: https://kotaku.com/xbox-boss-phil-spencer-on-series-x-launch-halo-infinit-1845392984

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aka "No more MS games on Switch unless you let us run Gamepass"

 

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Phil Spencer on porting further Xbox games to Switch: “it doesn’t feel sustainable."

Many other things from this interview (which already have threads), but I felt this one deserves its own topic as well: https://kotaku.com/xbox-boss-phil-spencer-on-series-x-launch-halo-infinit-1845392984

www.resetera.com

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I keep posting late threads because the actual thread just doesn't appear for me for some reason :|