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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
This is exactly it.
Actually starting your own studios and investing money in the front end to develop games - that's good because even it it's an exclusive on one system it's money that being invested into introducing more games into the market.
Chasing after established studios and throwing huge amounts of money at them to "Buy" exclusives - That's bad since it's not actually adding more games to the market, just limiting access of the ones that were already being worked on.
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Still only bad for single platform or PS5 gamers.
But after reading everything about the acquisition and Phil Spencer's comments it looks like exclusives weren't the reason why they acquired Zenimax, it was to get these games out to more people via Game Pass. But Xbox is still maintaining the PS5 timed exclusivity agreements for Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo. So, I don't see why they wouldn't do this for some of the futures game releases, possibly Starfield.
We also know Microsoft isn't going to spend 7.5 billion dollars to reduce returns on games when they could make nearly double by putting those games out on competitor consoles.