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Scott McCrae

Former PlayStation head tells Xbox to either be a good publisher or make a good platform with exclusives: "Nintendo needs its Mario and its Zelda"

A screenshot of Master Chief during one of the best Xbox Series X games, Halo Infinite.

Former PlayStation head Shawn Layden has urged Asha Sharma at Xbox to decide whether it wants to be a publisher or a platform holder.

Speaking to Eurogamer, Layden says, "There's two roads," when it comes to what Microsoft can do, that is "be a competitive platform rival in the marketplace with PlayStation, or the biggest game publisher in the world, which based on all their acquisitions, they're either there or they're very close to it."

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