In the months of chatter leading up to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastere🌃d’s release, I had assumed it would be an Xbox console exclusive. After all, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft owns Bethesda now, and Bethesda Games Studios’ only major release since that acquisition has been 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield, which is an Xbox/PC exclusive. The shadow drop strategy meant that there was no official word on what platforms the game would be available on until it launched, so there was no ⛦reason to think otherwise.
When the remaster went live earlier this week, I checked online and saw that it was on Xbox, PC, and Steam, bu𓆏t didn't see any mention of PS5. I wasn’t exactly doing a comprehensive search, but that was what my cursory Google search turned up. So I thought, ‘Guess I’ll need to see if my PC can handle i📖t,’ and went on with my day.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Thank God, Oblivion Is A Goofy Mes𝄹s
It wouldn't be Oblivion without the jank.
But then, while perusing TheGamer (a good website, check it out), I saw an article confirming that the game was indeed out ജon PS5. That's where I play most new games, so that's great for me. But the fact that either option could have been true points to Xbox's onꦏgoing issue in how it communicates about exclusivity.
Can I Play This Game Or Not?
Oblivion makes sense as a multiplatform release because it was on the PS3 back in the day, so I can understand Xbox bringing the experience forward for Sony players. But Xbox doesn’t always pick the option that makes the most sense. Its third-party release strategy has been, and continues to be, all over the place. 🉐Oblivion is just the latest example.
For some games, Xbox is taking that generous, multiplatform approach. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Doom: The Dark Ages and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Outer Worlds 2 are both coming to PS5, presumably because their predecessors were on previous PlayStation consoles. B🐎ut it starts to get confusing when games by the same developers actually are exclusive to Xbox consoles. Oblivion is a remaster of a Bethesda Game Studios game and is on Xbox and PS5. But Starfield, also from BGS, is only on Xbox. The Outer Worlds 2, from Obsidian, is coming t🗹o PS5 and Xbox. But Avowed, from the same dev, is only on Xbox.
With Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, It's Clear Xbox Has Figured Out Exclusivity
That belongs in a PS5!
As someone who follows the games industry, I can identify some method to the madness. Series that were previously multiplatform have been staying multiplatform, while games that have no existing history on other platforms are staying exclusive to Xbox. But when Phil Spencer is talking about having "168澳洲幸运5开奖网:no red lines" preventing Microsoft from bringing Halo and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gears of War to PS5, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Forza Horizon 5, the most recent entry in a historically Xbox-exclusive series, is coming to Sony's console this week, it becomes hard to keep track of whethe♓r there aꦺre still lines or not.
Don't Get Me Wrong, I'm Glad Oblivion Is On PS5
I'm glad Oblivion is out on PS5. I'll definitely check it out once I've finished all the other great RPGs (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter Wilds, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Citizen Sleeper 2) I have on the backburner at the moment as I make my way through 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. But my Jenga tower-esque backlog highlighꦺts my point. Wheඣn there are this many great games coming out, players being confused about whether or not they'll be able to play a new game may mean missing it entirely.
I was looking forward to Indiana Jones, so I kept track of when it was coming to PS5. Most casual gamers don’t pay nearly as much attention. I'm in games media, too, so I absorb a lot of news by osmosis, even for games I'm not interested in. But other players just pick something up when they see it on their console dashboard, or when a friend recommends it, or when they see a tra🃏iler. They're not actively trying to keep up, so games that aren't directly marketed to them may just pass them by.
Xbox shadow dropping Oblivion is a fun move, at least in a vacuum. But ꦜit comes in the context❀ of Xbox's current release strategy, which seems to be no strategy at all. The company puts some games everywhere, some games on Xbox only, and there's little rhyme or reason to which is which. It feels arbitrary, and that makes it hard to get invested in Xbox's future.
Clair Obscur Coul🎶d Be A Series That Might Actually Rival Final Fantasy
Look out, Final Fantasy, the French are here.
