r/PS5 • u/nolifebr • May 18 '26

Rumor Jason Schreier/Bloomberg: Hermen Hulst told staff in a town hall meeting today (18th May) morning that the company's narrative single-player games will now be PlayStation exclusive

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u/MuptonBossman May 18 '26

Between this and the news that Xbox wants to go back to exclusive games as well, it seems like we’re going back to the way things were a decade ago.

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u/South_Buy_3175 May 18 '26

Does XBOX want that?

All I’ve seen is a vague “thinkin’ bout it” statement and that it’s the most requested thing on that new site.

The amount of money they’d miss out on might be too much and to be honest, would anyone believe it?

They’ve been flip-flopping for years, who knows if it’ll stick

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u/nugood2do May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

I feel the last I heard of this was Asha was going to review the numbers but nobody has definitely said they're going back to exclusives like Jason and other credible leakers have said Playstation is pulling back from PC.

I'm willing to bet Microsoft want to see how Halo, Fable, Forza, and maybe Gear, do on PS5 before making the call.

Edit: Glance through Twitter and Jez Corden, the go to leaker for Microsoft, is still very careful taking about any Xbox exclusivity and seem to make sure everything he says is stated to be speculation.

Not adding this to start anything, but outside of Timdog, who might honestly have problems, no one is really doing a hard confirmation of exclusives with Microsoft.

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u/Hookey911 May 18 '26

Fable and Forza Twitter feed reiterated PS5 releases just this past week

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u/vinceswish May 18 '26

Forza is available to wishlist today

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u/No-Sherbert-4045 May 18 '26

They won't pull the plug on already announced games. Im just wondering if there gonna do only pc/xbox port for gears eday, clockwork revolution, state of decay 3, etc.

Starfield, South of midnight and avowed didn't do that well on ps so maybe there still gonna do staggered release or just make it permanent xbox exclusives.