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The relocation isn’t totally stunning for contemporary Microsoft, which has actually been releasing previous Xbox exclusives on contending consoles in increasing numbers for a while now. And Flight Simulator 2024 has actually been readily available on Xbox Series S/X for nearly a year now, as the name recommends, offering Xbox owners a “timed exclusive” a minimum of.

Still, it’s a bit striking to see a franchise that actually has the Microsoft trademark name incorporated into its title transferring to a significant non-Microsoft platform like this. The effect is a bit like seeing a Sonic video game on a Nintendo console for the very first time in 2001, after years of Sega offering itself as the anti-Nintendo.

Obviously, for Sonic’s huge relocate to take place, Sega needed to leave the video game console service totally after the marketplace failure of the Dreamcast. Now that yet another significant Microsoft video game franchise is going multiplatform, one needs to question what the future of the Xbox as an unique console even appears like.

“We run a business,” Microsoft’s Phil Spencer stated in a 2024 interview. “[The video game industry] has been growing for a long, long time, and now people are looking for ways to grow. And I think that us, as fans, as players of games, we just have to anticipate there’s going to be more change in how some of the traditional ways that games were built and distributed [are] going to change… for all of us.”

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