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Xbox isdenying that it currently has any plans to bring Avowed to PS5.
The Road Not Taken…
The company has been staking out a frustrating middle ground for the past year.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle looks great, but the looming PS5 release date has me holding off.
The frustrating thing about this era of Xbox is that there doesnt seem to be a game plan.
If Nintendo is releasing a full-priced game, its only going to be on the Switch.
Even the mobile games arent ports of existing games.
Theyre bespoke releases designed for a mobile audience.
…For A Reason
The economics of this approach are understandable.
Nintendo makes both games and hardware, and those two businesses are symbiotic.
If it wants to sell consoles, it needs to make good games you could play on those consoles.
If it wants to sell games, it needs to sell consoles you could play them on.
Leave the hardware behind and focus on what really matters.
More consoles equals more sales, or at least, the possibility.
The same goes for PC versions of said titles, it is going to head where the money is.
So why doesnt Microsoft?
But those strategies are mutually exclusive.
Doing both at once undercuts everything.
Every company has strategies that they follow behind the scenes.
If Xbox plans to leave home consoles behind, it’s time to go handheld.
