Xbox Series X First-party Games Will Also Play On Xbox One
Mattie Manners
Instead, the likes of Halo: Infinite will launch on Xbox Series X but will also launch on PC and work on Xbox One. We knew that already, but based on Booty's comments, expect the next couple of year's worth of Microsoft first-party games, which includes Ninja Theory's Hellblade 2, to work the same.
Traditionally, first-party console launch titles would be charged with showing off a console's capabilities by doing things impossible on the previous generation. Microsoft is looking at Halo: Infinite to fill that void for Xbox Series X, despite the fact it's also playable on Xbox One.
Ahead of the first-ever Xbox and Bethesda Showcase on Sunday, when we will unveil our best and biggest games lineup of ever, Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed the importance of gaming to Microsoft and in the world. We also shared new updates on how Xbox Game Pass is changing the way we discover, connect, and play and how Xbox and all games from its 23 studios are coming to more screens.
Microsoft has confirmed today that Xbox Game Studios (first-party) titles will be getting a price increase from 2023 onwards, with Starfield, Redfall and Forza Motorsport all reflecting the new $69.99 USD price point next year. This will affect games "built for Xbox Series XS" - in other words, all the major new AAA releases from the publisher.
"This price reflects the content, scale, and technical complexity of these titles. As with all games developed by our teams at Xbox, they will also be available with Game Pass the same day they launch."
Just a couple of months ago, Xbox boss Phil Spencer hinted at plans to raise Xbox prices in the future, but also confirmed that prices would remain the same until at least 2023. With first-party games now getting a price increase, it'll be interesting to see if consoles and subscriptions such as Xbox Game Pass follow suit in the coming months.
As mentioned by the Microsoft spokesperson, all first-party Xbox games will continue to launch into Xbox Game Pass on day one in 2023, including those aforementioned titles such as Starfield and Forza.
I buy all games I want to play, even if they are on game pass, except first party games because those will never leave the service. Only first party games I will buy are ones that will have expiring licenses (like, I own Forza Horizon 3)
Honestly, if anyone in todays world expected any less, then you need to educate yourselves. Price increases are a natural part of business and should be expected at any given time. This is no news to me and as long as the games i want to play keep coming out, i will gladly pay for them.
This also means Xbox games will be and should be held to a higher standard than they have been. 70 games riddled with microtransactions like most Xbox games are now will be a bigger joke than it already is.
@Moonglow wrong 2k was the first company to raise games prices to $70, second sony actually make quality exclusive be it cross gen or not. Plus I guarantee these games won't go into gamepass because gamepass was never meant to be a permanent selling point it was just a hold me over until xbox got their crap together in the exclusive department.
Neither Sony or Microsoft are there to look after us, they are there to make money, the difference is how much they care about fitting us, the consumers, into their business strategy. Sony increased the price 2 years ago and kept releasing cross gen games. Microsoft held back the price increase until they started deliveringnext gen games, 2023 forward.. Also, Game Pass anyone? I for one will be mostly playing releases there, U$70 wont matter much. Does Sony have the same offering?
@CunningPig And discretionary spend wasn't nearly as low back then. Housing, the biggest cost, has soared over 500%, gas was under $0.90, healthcare was actually...paid! etc. etc. Pensions still existed. At the time, video game rental remained how a lot of people played games, and Nintendo, the only meaningful console in town, was happy if you bought Mario and Zelda and called it a console and actively limited the number of games available on the system, and video game consoles were a small niche primarily for kids with little competition for the gaming dollar. You're comparing the landscape of a completely different industry. That era died. "Consoles" today are just custom PCs, and the games are PC games, largely, literally, the continuations of PC series, with the same games as PC, which was not the case with "console" back then. (Elder Scrolls! Fallout! Diablo! AoE! We're on a Microsoft forum for crying out loud!) If we're going to compare prices of games, we literally can compare SAME SERIES from the same studios when they were $40 on PC, we don't need to go back and compare the price of Mario 3 on a solid state NES cartridge for a comparison, nor can we omit the amount of rental, used, and clearance sales that counted as "sales" in 1991, that factors significantly less so when comparing to the PC games and digital sales that these series are.
The Xbox Series X and Series S have full backward compatibility with Xbox One games as well as several Xbox 360 and original Xbox games that were supported on the Xbox One, excluding those that used Kinect.[1] Most Xbox One games that also have an Xbox Series X/S version will automatically download the Xbox Series X/S version for the system via Microsoft's "Smart Delivery" program, without an additional purchase. This list excludes backward compatible games.
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