This comes from an interview withXboxEra, which took place right after Xbox’s Developer Direct late last month.

“All of those were single-player games.

They were all games that have a beginning, middle and end.”

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He explains that this was very much a conscious decision.

“Not every story is told in that way.

Not every game kind of supports that or creative idea supports that business model.

The top of an Xbox Series X console as seen in its reveal trailer

And so I want to create a platform that can support that.”

The end of exclusives could mean the beginning of something else.

One of Xbox’s big misses of this generation was a live service,Redfall.

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PlayStation had its own high-profile failure with Concord last year.

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