As Microsoft slowly moves away from exclusivity and embraces multiplatformity, the reasons to own an Xbox continue to evaporate slowly but surely. Now, rumors are circulating that Gears of War: E-Day is going to cross the Rubicon over to Sony’s territory, so what’s even the point of Xbox anymore?
According to Insider Gaming, Microsoft is planning to release Gears of War: E-Day, its upcoming AAA title, to the PlayStation 5, fundamentally supplanting any ideas of exclusivity players might have had. Though this is currently just a rumor and not a concrete confirmation, it’d be nothing strange considering Microsoft and Xbox’s moves lately.
Just recently, Microsoft migrated Forza Horizon 5 over to the PlayStation 5, a move that proved more than right as Forza became the best-selling PlayStation game of 2025 at over three million copies sold. This number stands to grow over the years, especially if Microsoft and Sony start striking deals for their subscription services, Game Pass and PlayStation Plus.
Gears of War: Reloaded, too, will join the PlayStation family, further indicating that Microsoft has all but given up on any and all forms of exclusivity and first-party console offerings.
While there’s a partnered Xbox “console” on the way, the ROG Xbox Ally X, there will likely never be a proper home Xbox console again, considering that there are literally zero reasons to own one. Unless Sony shakes hands with its biggest rival and starts its own multiplatforming process, perhaps there’d be reasons to purchase a new Xbox at some point down the line, if Microsoft ever even bothers to engineer it.
After all, with exclusives done away with as a concept, all you’d care for then is hardware capability, and that’s an easy situation for picking sides. Right now, though, Xbox is simply a thing of the past as a console, having no first-party exclusives (every game is at least released on PC, too), no new consoles (to rival the PS5 Pro), nor anything special about it hardware-wise to justify the purchase.
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