Hello and welcome to the official Xbox podcast I'm your host T.

T. N Amini and we have a very special episode today as you can probably tell by the fact that I'm

joined by Phil Sarah and Matt welcome and we're gonna talk about some

updates at Xbox we want to talk about game exclusivity we want to talk about

Activision Blizzard now that they're part of our portfolio, how that might be an

impact on Game Pass, and we want to talk about Hardware too and how all of this fits into

the strategy at Xbox.

So where should we start, Phil? Well, when we originally

had planned for the show starting back in December, I think we probably would have

started with Activision Blizzard, maybe talked a little bit about the exclusivity

with some of the news coming up and then hardware, but we've had some unforeseen

news that has come out so let's just go and tackle the exclusivity question because I know it's on the minds of a lot of people.

We hear from the community and that's an important input for us. So we made the decision that we're going to take four games to the other consoles.

Just four games.

Not a change to our kind of fundamental exclusive strategy.

It is we're making these decisions for some specific

reasons. We make every decision really with the long-term health of Xbox in mind.

And long-term health of Xbox means a growing platform, our games performing,

building the best platform for creators, reaching as many players as we can.

We're always looking to learn as a leadership team

and to grow.

And we think this is an interesting point in time

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