I really thought Microsoft wasn’t interested in the boring, drawn-out console wars, and that the games company was moving in a totally different service-led direction to Sony, which has dug its heels into the mud in order to create a singular platform for prestige AAA games.
But the Xbox Games Showcase (which took place on July 23) surprised me with its laser focus on exclusivity.To be fair, the exciting cross-play and platform-agnostic wave in the games industry feels like a blur now given the unrelenting speed with which it arrived.
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