Microsoft Should Bring These Xbox Exclusives to PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch

While console exclusivity is a huge part of a brand’s strategy, it also means players miss out on plenty of really good games. Microsoft has bought itself quite a library of games. Fans of Xbox consoles know that 2024 is going to be a big year for their favorite platform. Pretty much every single one of Microsoft Studios is currently working on a massive triple-A title for Xbox owners. Ninja Theory is working on Hellblade 2, Arkane is working on Blade, and Machine Games is working on Indiana Jones.

Of course, most of these games would be launching for Microsoft Xbox Series X and S. But now, rumors have started coming in that some of their already-launched games might make their way to other platforms. Hi-Fi Rush might just be the first link in this chain. What other games should make their way to other platforms, though?

6 Games that would do well if they ended up being multiplatform.

1. Starfield

Why would Microsoft want to keep Bethesda’s biggest achievement to themselves? An open-world sci-fi RPG game that is huge in size. Imagine being able to explore over a thousand planets and build outposts on every one of those planets to call home. Some say Starfield might just be one of the biggest sci-fi open-world games ever made, and it would be unfair if PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch gamers were kept away from it.

Now there’s no doubt the Nintendo Switch cannot run Starfield. But if Microsoft considers bringing this game to Switch 2, or whatever Nintendo chooses to call their next console, it would be a splendid surprise.

1. Pentiment

Obsidian Entertainment is a developer known for designing some very well-designed stories. These experiences mostly come in the form of role-playing games. Those games have great scale and always have a sort of grandeur to them. But Pentiment is something else altogether, a side-scrolling 2.5D narrative-driven medieval adventure.

It tells the kind of story rarely seen in video games nowadays. That’s what gamers have come to expect from Obsidian, after all—an experience like no other. While Starfield would be hard to port to the Nintendo Switch, Pentiment might make this transition pretty easily, because it is not very intense visually.

1. Sunset Overdrive

For those who fell in love with the Insomniac games Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, this game would be a revelation. In fact, this might just be the game where Insomniac Games laid the foundation for their upcoming superhero adventures. But not many were fortunate enough to try their hands on this exciting title. The biggest reason for that was its Xbox One exclusivity. Eventually, it did make its way to Steam, but that did not make much of a difference either.

It would be great if Microsoft actually decided to introduce this title to a wider audience and bring it to both Nintendo and Sony’s platforms.

1. Fable Trilogy

There are numerous exciting RPG games besides Skyrim that people have yet to experience in their lifetime. The fable series belongs to those. Players would get to explore a beautiful country, be who they want to be, and treat people the way they want to. The Fable series of games was the first to offer players the experience of being a negative presence in the world around them. Of course, players could choose to be good; they could do things better, but where’s the fun in that?

Microsoft has been sitting on these games for the longest time now; this is the moment when they get free.

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1. Forza Horizon series

Gamers get their fill of every kind of video game experience nowadays. Every direction they look in is crowded with games of their preferred genre. Action, adventure, RPGs, open-world sandboxes—arcade racers are becoming a rarity. Need for Speed used to provide gamers with that experience, but EA is a bit confused nowadays; it seems they are finding it very hard to decide where this series needs to go. They can take a while before coming to a decision, and until that moment, the Forza Horizon series can do a splendid job.

These games look brilliant, run brilliantly, and have hours and hours of content. What’s even better is that developers of playground games have found a way to implement seamless co-op in these games. Players can drop in and out in a heartbeat. This feature can even open the doors for cross-platform gaming.

1. Gears series

Another kind of video game that has become a rarity. There was a time when cover-to-cover third-person shooters were becoming a menace. There was no stopping that flood, but now that it has stopped, it is hard to not miss those games. Curiously, the only series that remains is the one that brought those kinds of games into the limelight in the first place. Yes, everyone started with aping Gears of War, and today, only this series remains, and everything else has pretty much vanished.

Hence, it would be fair to say that Microsoft should bring the older games to the Nintendo Switch and PS5. Gears 1, 2, 3, and Judgement would work great on Nintendo’s system, and the PS5 would run an upscaled version of those games with ease.

It only makes sense for Microsoft to bring their older games to other platforms. After all, they are not selling systems. Games that sell systems are games that will be released sometime in the future; they can easily earn a good amount of money from them if they bring them to other systems.

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