{"id":11965,"date":"2026-07-19T22:15:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=11965"},"modified":"2026-07-20T00:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:58:20","slug":"xbox-says-more-exclusives-are-coming-but-tells-players-not-to-overly-fixate-on-single-player-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/xbox-says-more-exclusives-are-coming-but-tells-players-not-to-overly-fixate-on-single-player-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Says More Exclusives Are Coming But Tells Players Not to &#8216;Overly Fixate on Single-Player&#8217; Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Executives at Xbox have once again attempted to clarify the company&#8217;s approach to exclusives, promising that &#8220;Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only titles&#8221; it&#8217;s planning.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball and chief content officer Matt Booty tried to further explain how Microsoft is handling exclusives during a conversation with GamesRadar. Their clarification arrived amid the company&#8217;s renewed interest in the strategy, which kicked off just last month with confirmation that two of its biggest first-party games would not come to PlayStation consoles.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I can assure you, Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only titles we&#8217;re planning,&#8221; Ball promised. &#8220;To grow a platform like ours, you have to have exclusive games and services. These are not going to be the only two titles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Microsoft shocked the industry at its Xbox Games Showcase last month when it declared The Coalition&#8217;s Gears of War: E-Day would not be releasing on PS5 as many had expected. The announcement that inXile Entertainment&#8217;s Clockwork Revolution would also be console exclusive arrived sooner after. Both were also confirmed to be pure console exclusives with no timed-exclusivity deals in place.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">What&#8217;s emerged in the weeks since is muddy messaging that&#8217;s led to some confusion amongst fans. Just as rumors that Xbox had hastily decided to make the Gears prequel exclusive began to dissipate, theories were reignited when the company leaked an image for the game featuring a PS5 logo. Meanwhile, as games like Gears of War: Reloaded, Halo: Campaign Evolved, and Fable come to PS5, players have been left uncertain about how Microsoft will determine what is an exclusive and what isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">So, what does the future of Xbox exclusive games look like? For the most die-hard fans \u2013 and maybe even Microsoft itself \u2013 it&#8217;s hard to say, for now. In June, Booty said the company will choose which titles get the exclusive treatment on a &#8220;case-by-case basis.&#8221; Today, he&#8217;s being a tad more direct, promising that, while &#8220;large live-service titles&#8221; will be multiplatform going forward, players shouldn&#8217;t expect all single-player titles to be Xbox exclusive.<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The 100 Best Xbox Games of All Time<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\">&lt;img alt=&quot;What is an Xbox? Microsoft has spent 25 years trying to answer the question, but for fans, the answer is easy: \u201cXbox\u201d evokes one-eared headsets wired into the memory card slots of massive controllers with breakaway cords. A dashboard with gleaming skeuomorphic blades and avatars adorned in earned accessories. That sound that plays when a hard-earned Achievement finally pops. \u201cXbox\u201d means heavy-duty hardware. Tactile sensations. Friends connecting for the first time. And that\u2019s before we even get to the games.<\/p>\n<p>It may be that the very idea of an Xbox game is coming to an end. Microsoft has undeniably shifted its tactics, with a new focus on multi-platform releases, handheld Xboxes that are actually miniature Windows computers, and the potential that future Xbox consoles may simply be gaming PCs. So now seems as good a time as any to look back at the entire history of Microsoft\u2019s console journey and rank the best Xbox games, with help from our friends at Outside Xbox, the multimillion-subscriber channel that serves up weekly videos about video games and video game-adjacent things<\/p>\n<p>When we say \u201cthe best Xbox games,\u201d we mean the ones that most evoke that weighty sense of \u201cXboxness.\u201d Some are first-party, most are exclusives, and all of them are indelibly tied to the legacy of and fondness for a platform that\u2019s left a massive mark on gaming. These are the 100 Best Xbox Games of All Time. We&#8217;ll be updating this list daily with 25 games at 7am PST\/10am ET\/3pm GMT from Tuesday, 20th January to Friday, 23rd January, until number one is revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; class=&#8221;progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity&#8221; loading=&#8221;lazy&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/xbox-says-more-exclusives-are-coming-but-tells-players-not-to-overly-fixate-on-single-player-games.gif&#8221; data-cy=&#8221;progressive-image&#8221;&gt;<span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t overly fixate on single-player,&#8221; he clarified. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a good rule of thumb, but it certainly isn&#8217;t something that&#8217;s carved in stone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">He continued: &#8220;We are the stewards of over 20 game franchises that have made a billion dollars in their lifetime. There are a lot of different games in our portfolio, and we have to think about how different games serve different purposes within it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ball said Microsoft does &#8220;have a framework for these selections, including how we evaluate them.&#8221; He noted that it&#8217;s a strategy that may not be &#8220;obvious to all of our players,&#8221; saying the Xbox team is &#8220;committed to making this clearer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">As Xbox CEO Asha Sharma brings &#8220;energy&#8221; to the team, Booty said he&#8217;s hoping they strike &#8220;the right balance between the work that the teams have invested and a strategy pivot.&#8221; The new gaming boss said in June that exclusives are needed to build a platform. Ball echoed that thought in the new interview.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">&#8220;There is scant evidence of any platform ever being built, let alone sustained, without having exclusive content,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter whether we&#8217;re talking about cable networks, streaming video channels, broadcast, terrestrial radio, a Hollywood studio, a music label \u2013 you need it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"poll-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<section class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\"><\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">We&#8217;re still in the early days of Xbox&#8217;s new strategy, so it&#8217;s tough to say how it will change its troubled ecosystem in the months and years ahead. As the company attempts to clear the air when it comes to its new exclusive strategy, it&#8217;s still trudging through the aftermath of layoffs that arrived alongside what Sharma called the &#8220;most significant restructure&#8221; in its history. The resustructure in question, which resulted in 1,600 laid off staff with another 1,600 arriving through the rest of the financial year, happened earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Michael Cripe is a freelance writer with IGN. He&#8217;s best known for his work at sites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. 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