Xbox Player Voice gave gamers an opportunity to tell the company what they wanted from its console and games, and it didn't take long to come to a consensus. While one of the biggest wishes from Xbox fans is a return to exclusives, there are a few additional takeaways that can be gleaned from the top requests.
On May 18, Xbox introduced Xbox Player Voice, which gave players a way to offer feedback directly to the company. While Xbox notes that not every popular request will necessarily lead to a new feature, players will be able to see when their feedback is being reviewed by the team, and will be given updates if any changes or additions are made in response to feedback.
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It only took a day for some clear patterns to emerge on the Xbox Player Voice Feedback forum, with the clear-cut leading request bringing back Xbox console exclusives. A gamer named Carlos Hernandez shared a request to bring them back, claiming that Xbox isn't selling enough consoles because there's no reason to buy them when games can be bought and played on competing systems. Within a day, that request received nearly 10,000 upvotes, and over a thousand comments.
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Another highly-voted and commented piece of feedback is for Xbox to once again focus on backwards compatibility, allowing older games to be easily played on the Xbox Series X/S. That request has already received more than 7,000 upvotes. Other popular suggestions include making online multiplayer free to access rather than requiring an Xbox Game Pass subscription, as well as separating achievements for base games and their DLC, and introducing a family version of Xbox Game Pass for families who own multiple Xbox consoles.
Some player requests are likely to be lower than others, as Xbox doesn't make any changes that could negatively impact the profitability of services like Game Pass. However, as far as Xbox exclusives are concerned, the topic is something that Xbox itself is looking into, at least, according to respected insider Jez Corden. As Xbox evaluates its overall business, a return to exclusives could be something the company chooses to do to sell more consoles. Seeing this request at the top of the list on the Xbox Player Voice forum might help Xbox move in that direction.
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At one time, console exclusives were the norm, with many games never leaving the family of consoles they launched on. However, ports became more common as the years went by, with developers and publishers using the opportunity to make more money from existing products. In recent times, exclusives have become very rare, sticking with a single console for only a certain period of time before releasing on other systems, and even that has become very rare. It looks like the industry may end up reversing course on this trend, however, as a recent report indicates that PlayStation will no longer port its single-player story games to PC.
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