Shuhei Yoshida, former PlayStation boss, has praised Microsoft's strategy of launching its first-party games on rival platforms, including the PS5. He views this as beneficial for PS5 owners who previously lacked access to these games. Yoshida warns that if PlayStation were to become a minority platform, it would hinder first-party development as top creators would leave. Microsoft aims to expand its reach rather than convert PS5 owners to Xbox, reflecting a commitment to a platform-agnostic approach, while Sony maintains focus on exclusives for its ecosystem.
"I think it's a win for PlayStation owners; they didn't have access [to those games] before," he said on the Sacred Symbols podcast, as reported by VGC.
When he was running first-party, Yoshida said it was a "nightmare" scenario for PlayStation to become "the minority platform" because that would make it "impossible to maintain the first-party development because the best creators would leave."
They are not just creatives, they are business people as well; they want their games to reach the biggest audience as well.
Microsoft has been embracing a more platform-agnostic strategy for many years already but only recently has the company actually begun releasing more and more games for PS5 and Switch.
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