Microsoft may have 'no choice' but to bring Xbox games to PS5, analyst says
Microsoft paid $70 billion for Activision-Blizzard, and now team Xbox is stressed to hit challenging internal targets...soon the company could have "no choice" but to bring more of its first-party franchises over to competing platforms. Xbox exclusivity is going the way of the dodo. Once heralded as a way to sell consoles, first-party exclusives have lost their importance when weighed against the almighty profit margin. Now that the dust has settled from the Activision merger, the service giant delivered $7.4 billion in revenue in its first year, comprising 32% of full-year Xbox revenues. But costs are rising across the board and Microsoft is even losing money on Xbox console hardware.
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