Why should MS give up 1st party games for nothing? MS already gives them the Minecraft games day and date, even with no obligation to do so.
Bro...the games I mentioned are
third-party games . As for why should MS give up 1P games... the same reason they do to Nintendo. When's Nintendo put a single 1P game on an Xbox platform? We'll be waiting another century, but that hasn't stopped Microsoft from putting Minecraft, Ori, Rare Replay Collection etc. on Switch :/
What does Sony put on Xbox? MLB The Show obviously doesn’t count as Sony has no choice in that.
Destiny 2, and Marathon once Bungie releases that. So there you go.
At the very least, I’d call every game an exclusive and not clarify it coming to PS. Then I’d release it later on PS if Sony agreed to an 80/20 split.
And if Sony were stupid enough to take that deal, their gaming business would collapse. You think it'd end with Microsoft asking for preferential cuts? EA, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Capcom, Sega/Atlus, Bandai-Namco, CDPR...all the big 3P pubs would be expecting similar cuts on PlayStation, and hell maybe even Xbox, too.
Which matters nothing for Microsoft; gaming revenue is less than 10% of their annual revenue and probably closer to 1/30th of their net profit (that's being optimistic). They aren't affected by a 20% cut instead of a 30% cut. For a company like Sony though, it'd devastate PlayStation and "spend them out of business", as Matt Booty put it in that email some people still want to pretend was just a "thought experiment".