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No More Red Lines: Your PlayStation is Also an Xbox

This is the dawn of video game EX-exclusivity

This PS5/Xbox meme has been done before, but I felt compelled to weigh in. This story partially exists due to

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. He asked me which console he should buy a few years ago. It wasn’t an easy question to answer. There were so many factors. Fast forward to today, the landscape has changed and choosing a console isn’t as much of a conundrum. Here’s my perspective. Image created by author

No matter how you look at it, your PS5 is also an Xbox.

Ok, maybe it’s not literally, or even spiritually, but in some sense, in an Xbox-is-now-bringing-exclusive-games-to-rival-platforms sort of way, it is.

Some would call this capitulation. Even though Xbox is starting to see an uptick in revenue and growth overall due to Call of Duty, Minecraft, and Xbox Game Pass, Xbox hardware is trending downward (and will most-likely continue to do so with the economy being what it is today and with Microsoft’s recent decision to raise hardware and software prices), which pretty much sums up the way the console race has been going for them.

Xbox is in third place, behind PlayStation and Nintendo, and has been for the majority of its lifespan despite best efforts acquiring some of the best and brightest talent in games (Bethesda Softworks, Activision/Blizzard, Obsidian, and Ninja Theory to name a few) to feed their “all-you-can-eat,” Netflix-style subscription service, Xbox Game Pass.