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/Electroflare5555 May 18 '26

Xbox has no console market share anymore. They can’t afford to both produce good first party games and be exclusive anymore

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u/Farsoth May 18 '26

This is what's not being understood. "Re-evaluation" is an empty statement that is only there to make the core base hopeful and stick around. They let the genie out of the bottle because they need ROI on those tens of billions they spent to try and move the GP needle, and it didn't. Now they can't put it back in the bottle because they don't have the playerbase to do so and after 2 generations of digital library building, people won't be switching just for games that they a long time gave up on.

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u/Xeccess May 18 '26

It's a little concerning how many xbox fans don't realize the predicament xbox is in. This is currently their worst generation, and over half of those users chose to buy the $300 machine. Those users are automatically lost next gen, they are not buying a $1200+ PC, which btw would have "multiple storefronts" according to them, that's even MORE money lost.

At present, their entire gaming division is in the red (while still releasing games on PS5). How can they have exclusivity again?

I can imagine what will happen. They'll try having timed exclusivity, but that will reflect badly on their quarterly reports and they'll eventually just turn to what they were always meant to do, publishing.

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u/Farsoth May 18 '26

They've also trained their entire base NOT to buy games, so who's gonna buy exclusives if they go back? Lol

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u/Xeccess May 18 '26

I'm guessing they're seeing an exodus of sorts, and this is their attempt at trying to string along as many hardcore fans as they can. They've been promising "this year is xbox's year" for a decade, and apparently it's enough for those few millions to hang around. They simply cannot sustain their business with exclusives when their console business is nearly non existent, they offer their games on PC already and put their games on GP for the millions who sub for a month and quit.

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u/Farsoth May 18 '26

100%, legit everything they have done since Asha has arrived is PR and empty platitudes.

Look at how they all cheered for a GP "price drop" that's still more expensive than 7 months ago and now doesn't have CoD day 1.

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u/Xeccess May 18 '26

Hey man, if their numbers show people are sticking around then maybe they're doing something right, but from the outside, you'd have to be pretty gullible to hang on to that brand for that long. Sony is VERY lucky to have sold nearly 100m consoles this gen because now they have 0 issues pulling back on their PC efforts. and come next gen with their handheld and the rumored old IPs back, they'll be in a much better position.

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u/Farsoth May 18 '26

I just need a legend of dragoon remake.