Recent years have seen Microsoft and Xbox embrace releasing its first-party games on rival platforms like PS5, embracing a fully multiplatform strategy and effectively killing the idea of having titles exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem. This has brought success — Forza Horizon 5 performed exceptionally well on PlayStation, and Sea of Thieves did too — but not every Xbox game has been a hit on other systems.
One consequence of this new direction is that many feel the lack of console exclusives devalues the Xbox brand and makes it difficult to justify purchasing an Xbox Series X|S over the PS5, as with the exception of Helldivers 2, all PlayStation Studios titles are exclusive to that platform.
