Starfield Is An Xbox Exclusive, And Pete Hines Is Sorry - Kotaku

“I don’t know how to allay the concerns of PlayStation 5 fans other than to say, well, I’m a PlayStation 5 player as well, and I’ve played games on that console, and there’s games I’m gonna continue to play on it,” Hines said.

“But at the end of the day, your ability to focus and say, this is the game I want to make, these are the platforms I want to make it on, and being able to really lean [into] those is going to make for a better product.”.

Howard further cited the ways in which you can release first-party Xbox games as one reason for why the deal is a positive.

Between Xbox Game Pass—which debuts first-party games on launch day at no extra cost to subscribers—and Xbox’s push toward cloud gaming, it’s easier to get games into the hands of players.

Nowhere in the documentation that we put together was: ‘How do we keep other players from playing these games?’ We want more people to be able to play games, not fewer people to be able to go play games.

“We’re big believers in all of the avenues that Xbox and Microsoft are doing to get games to more people,” Howard told The Telegraph