Microsoft is releasing four Xbox-only titles to competing systems

A number of Xbox-only games will soon be accessible on rival platforms, the video game industry and its parent company, Microsoft, disclosed on Thursday.

Microsoft and the video game industry revealed on Thursday that several exclusive Xbox titles will soon be available on competing platforms.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer announced that four Xbox titles will no longer be exclusive in a special episode of the Official Xbox Podcast. This implies that players ought to have access to them on the platforms of other businesses.

Although Spencer did not name the four games or give a specific release date, he did reveal that two of them will be "community-driven" games and the other two will be smaller releases. He did clarify that the Bethesda games Starfield and Indiana Jones, which are owned by Microsoft, were not included.

In an effort to persuade customers to purchase the gadgets that include their exclusive rights, manufacturers of gaming gear frequently license well-known video games.

Xbox appears to be reconsidering that approach based on its announcement on Thursday. Spencer stated that he thinks games that are unique to a single piece of hardware "are going to be a smaller and smaller part of the game industry" within the next five or ten years, despite Microsoft's insistence that its exclusivity strategy has not fundamentally changed.

Microsoft has been steering clear of this already with its "Game Pass" subscription service, which functions similarly to Netflix for video games.