Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive

Keeps the diehard Xbox fans happy? It's extremely cringe worthy though.

A sense of pride and accomplishment

Then Sony jacked up the price of PlayStation Plus and announced that they’re no longer supporting PC with single player games. I have zero faith in Sony to make the right decisions anymore.

Which is why what they're doing is so dumb

They think people will rush out and buy ps5s for exclusives, after people just sold theirs. Hell, I gave mine away to my niece. I'm not going to buy another or a ps6 knowing that at any moment exclusives won't be exclusive again.

The flip flop just showed people it can change. And if they don't sell enough consoles, they will switch again. And people still won't buy them at full price.

Well, yeah...

But you cheated, you used critical thinking. These days that's like Shaq bragging to toddlers that he can dunk and they can't.

Ol' Petey sure got his bag, though. Can buy at least a few more cars with his golden parachute.

You can't spell 'fun' without 'eff you'!

better than what sony does. im still waiting for some playstation exclusives to hit XBOX

I thought I read a year ago or so that Xbox gave up on exclusives?

They changed strategy with their new Xbox division chief. Gave up on AI and moved forward with Xbox with exclusives.

Even from a capitalist perspective, this is such a waste.

If they had done this earlier, they could have better allocated the team working more on the Xbox version than wasting their time, money, and passion on something that won’t see the light of day.

It’s a massive failure and waste from every perspective…

PS5 went for console exclusives so now Xbox has to select a couple token core IPs to can their PS5 version with so they don't end up in a spot where PS5 is always clearly the right hardware to own.

So this is what came of that clearly rigged survey from a few months ago where apparently a whole bunch of people still want exclusives on consoles for some reason? I was wondering why they did that.

"Fun surprise for gamers" is would be a wild statement to make for something that removes choice from gamers.

edit: changed phrasing to respect paraphrase in original comment

Xbox tried to play nice and put their games on PlayStation. Sony didn't return the favor. Because of this, Sony had more draw for consumers. "On Xbox, I just get multiplat and Xbox games. On PlayStation I get all of that and PlayStation exclusives too." PlayStation hoarding their games to themselves created an imbalance in exactly the same way Nintendo works.

Sure, it may be less pro-consumer for people that don't own or buy an Xbox, but it was a problem for people that did buy Xbox. Xbox owners felt "Why did I buy this system when every other system gets the same games we get and more games that we don't get?"

It was an interesting experiement, but I absolutely believe survey results show people wanting exclusives back.

It was my paraphrase, which I made somewhat facetiously. I don't think a lot of replies here know what paraphrasing is.