Imagine being a CEO and taking advice from Twitter on how to run your company.

What a dumb move. They're not gonna sell many of these games on Xbox (hello, GamePass), and the average punter isn't necessarily going to bother looking up to see if a game releases on PS5, so they'll lose sales there, too. All they're doing is damaging actual potential game sales to make Xbox fanboys feel good about themselves.

Yay for confused marketing! Now no one will know when these games are on other platforms. Which is great for sales prospects.

Either bring back exclusives or commit to multiplatform. You guys suck too much at this to do both.

How high school of them.

Gosh, they do like to change their minds a lot at Xbox.

I will fully admit Sony has been terribly cack handed at informing anyone of anything (same goes for working for them to an extent).

Yet Xbox and by extension the only reason they’re still in business, Microsoft, seem intent on not being intent on anything.

At this point, I’ll take no information over information that changes so frequently one requires a spreadsheet just to keep up.

Ha, spreadsheet, Microsoft even has that market cornered too don’t they. Create problem, solve problem I guess.

I would rather punch myself in the crotch than work for them again, with a landmine.

But reading these updates of their trajectory, I can’t help but wonder if they’re aiming to look like the kid who took up a drug habit at Oxford or not.

They have the smarts, but they also have lived off daddies money for far too long and clearly don’t know how to live alone.

Let me know when Xbox decides everything is an Xbox again. It won’t be long.

Is funny see a CEO make decisions with a Twitter in mind

"If we put our fingers in our ears and cover our eyes, it won't exist."

Don't you learn that doesn't work when you're about 4?

This is deeply stupid and makes these ports all the more confusing.

What exactly is the point of this? If they’re not exclusive games, you’re just potentially hurting the sales on other platforms if you don’t let people know readily that they are available on those platforms. Just make the games exclusive or don’t.

They’re constantly trying to to play both sides of the field and it’s getting tiring.

Years from now, Asha will be a case study on why making your decisions based on social media users is a terrible idea. Yea, she's pleasing the fanboys, but it's not going to fix the issues at the company.

I mean there's no problem with listening to your fanbase from time to time, but even the obvious nitpicks?

Sometimes I feel like this lady uses Copilot and social media as her advisor for some "drastic" decisions. A "yes man of social media" in the making.

@DennisReynolds Well people obviously think Sony's ceo will listen through social media including Twitter about physical discs.

Rumor has it that when afraid, the ostrich will shove its head into the dirt so it doesn’t see the danger coming. If it doesn’t see the danger, the danger doesn’t exist. Essentially, it’s not on PlayStation because the PS logo isn’t there. Does this make sense?!

Truly pathetic. So glad I got out of the xbox cult years ago

Great so we're back to not knowing the basics of whether a game is coming out on PS or Switch or not!

Like this is just silly now, they want us to buy the games but then cry that we do.

They had a chance after Forza Horizon 5 to have built on that success but they immediately missed the opportunity with Horizon 6 where it'll be at least 6 months old! We saw with Indiana Jones that the delay meant the hype wasn't as strong.

I hope for the sake of the developers they still have that Xbox figure out what they want to do and make a success of it.

Why does anyone here care?

Why wouldn't you just say what it is and where you can get it?

I used to find trailers for multi platform games that just ended with the PlayStation logo alone misleading too.

So they’re not really addressing the core issues and pretending to by hurting their multi-platform sales? Remove their games from Problem Central and Slaystation is what the Deadboxers want not this ‘solution’.

@SMJ Why do you care what everyone here thinks?

@MidnightDragonDX Asha didn’t kill the brand. But she will be the fall g(al)uy.

Nothing wrong with this at all, they are trying to pivot direction (which will take time) but you have to start somewhere. PS and Nintendo do it so it's really a non story/issue tbh.

What do you want, the Xbox CEO listening to core fans on twitter over some minor logos or playstation completely ignoring core fans on everything ever.

I know which one I would rather have.

I wish Nishino has Hulst would ever listen to thier players (spoiler alert they don't and they lost billions on wasted live service projects players never wanted).

@Bot_Bot_69 They’re hoping it deters people from thinking everything launches on their rival to increase market value, when in fact they still do.

I think Asha’s taking advice from that Moblin in the cave who says “It’s a secret to everybody.”

@SMJ Exactly it's such a non issue.

Childish and likely to work against them. Happy for them to go console exclusive, it's their business so down to them, but this whole back and forth and now just hiding the fact they have games elsewhere. It's just tiring.

I've got Halo and Gears of War on my wishlist, but with so many games to play and plenty other choices I'll probably just wait on a deep price cut or not bother. My choice as a consumer. You don't want my money it seems?

Would be great if Sony purged Helldivers 2 from the xbox store and ported it to Switch 2

It almost seems like some sort of muddy the waters tactic, not sure why.

"We heard how unbelievably petty you were and decided to make our advertising more confusing to appease you."
-a company that's doing just fine

I’m just curious why PS4 wasn’t originally listed. If this game can run on the OG Switch, certainly it could run on the PS4.

@Stevemalkpus Probably wouldn't be a good look for microsoft if they released it on PS4 but not xbox one

This is an incredibly stupid and concerningly spiteful move.

@SteveBTW Er, no, I have all the consoles, including the PS5 Pro. I am just keeping the same energy for all of them.

I am guessing you must own an Xbox; otherwise, you will be a "shill" too.

@ShogunRok

Love it, keep it cutting, Xbox clearly are.

What an absolute b*stard of a fine individual.

@ButteredCrumpet Does this mean they aren't releasing it on PS5? I'm not buying it for Xbox if they are skipping PS5. It's hard to keep up with Microsoft these days.

When you purchase two massive publishers that regularly released third party games, it's kind of necessary to clarify which consoles the games are releasing on.

Me - 'Heard you', Purges Xbox studio games from wishlist! Lol

@Questionable_Duck Key words: "PlayStation website".

You don't see me trolling on PureXbox do you?

As a petty person myself I approve this level of pettiness.

Yet they are absolutely fine with ads of Master Chief taking people to McDonald's.

@ButteredCrumpet
"Yet Xbox ... seem intent on not being intent on anything."

Project: Fish out of water - flip flopping hard.

The rest of this post just made me laugh out loud - I particularly like "I would rather punch myself in the crotch than work for them again, with a landmine."

@-wc- @Hesse @MasterChiefWiggum This concern all seems a bit disingenuous to me, because how many PlayStation and Nintendo players are watching Xbox showcases and looking up trailers on the Xbox YouTube channel versus the PlayStation and Nintendo ones? Realistically speaking, very few, so I don't see how this would impact sales of the games on other platforms in the slightest.

These trailers that they're removing logos from are targeting the Xbox audience first and foremost. I don't know about you, but it seems incredibly stupid for Microsoft to tell Xbox players they can get the game on PlayStation and Nintendo instead and, in the process, make less money.

I didn't hear a single soul on Push Square (or any website, for that matter) criticize Sony for omitting any mentions of the Xbox versions of Helldivers 2 and MLB The Show on the PlayStation YouTube channel. By your logic, then that is also incredibly silly because Sony is "lowering" sales of the game on the Xbox platform.

Who tf cares about the other console's /platform's logos being there?

I'm more annoyed when publishers DON'T just show all the logos. This just reeks of appeasing petty fanboy tribalism.

It's pretty funny watching the American brands pivot so hard on the multiplatform push after years of investing in that strategy. Meanwhile, Nintendo keeps peddling along, doing the same thing they've always done because they ignored this nonsense completely. 😂

That's a pretty dumb request, if you ask me. But Push Square can't say much with recurrent news and titles mentioning 'Halo PS5' or only mentioning PS5 as a platform.

Listening to Twitter or not.. that also shows that Xbox CEO indeed listens what people say, a nice attitude compared to Sony CEO and whole staff disappearing from social media after announcing killing physical distribution and ignoring people online commenting about that until today…

@kmtrain83 Ask Sony why they do the same exact thing with Helldivers 2, Lego Horizon, and the MLB titles

@kmtrain83 Confusing too, I thought they weren't releasing the game itself. If it confused me it's going to confuse other people.

Not something for me to get angry about, I’m having a great time replaying Witcher 3 at the moment

I suppose in places where the ad is targeted to an XBox audience, it makes sense to focus on XBox.

But in places where you're targeting a general audience, it's idiotic - yes, idiotic - not to list every platform you're releasing on, in order to maximize your sales and excitement for the new release across your entire customer base. Some fans are looking for their preferred platform, and if they don't see it in your ads, they may never look for it in their platform's store.

And yes, I stand by that statement for any games released by Sony which are cross-platform as well.

@get2sammyb Sorry, I thought you were in the business of informing people. You should let your pals at sister sites know as they mention all platforms games are coming to.

This is a really stupid move from their side, from both sides actually since I was not aware Play Station side the same from the MLB games.

And to the fans that complained about this, don’t they have anything better to do with their pathetic lives, picking their noses sounds more productive than this.

This is the definition of tragic.

@RobN Even though I don't fully agree, this is a take I can stand by. I appreciate that you're consistent with your logic

Company A goes exclusives: yeah, finally, it's a good thing.
Company B goes exclusives: how dare they?!

This makes no sense, don't they want to sell more copies? This just makes it confusing on what is coming out on what platform, I guess the best business advice is confuse consumers