Xbox Player Voice has given players an opportunity to tell the company exactly what they want from its consoles and games, and it hasn't taken long to reach 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 most common requests.
On May 18, Xbox introduced Xbox Player Voice, giving players a way to directly provide feedback to the company. While Xbox has noted that not all popular requests will necessarily lead to a new feature, players will be able to see when their feedback has been reviewed by the team, and will receive 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 in the Xbox Player Voice feedback forum, with the clear leading request to bring back exclusive Xbox consoles. A gamer named Carlos Hernandez shared a request to bring them back, claiming that Xbox doesn't sell enough consoles because there's no reason to buy them when the games can be bought and played on competing systems. Within a day, that request has received almost 10,000 votes and over a thousand comments.
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The second highest voted and commented feedback is that Xbox is focusing on backwards compatibility again, making older games easily playable on the Xbox Series X/S. That request has already received over 7,000 votes. Other popular suggestions include making online multiplayer free to access, instead of requiring a subscription to Xbox Game Pass, as well as separating Achievements for base games and their DLC, and introducing a family version of Xbox Game Pass for households that own multiple Xbox consoles.
Some of the player requests are less likely to happen than others, as Xbox is unlikely to make any changes that could negatively impact its profits from services like Game Pass. But when it comes to Xbox exclusives, the topic is something that Xbox itself is looking at, at least, according to reputable 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 top the list on the Xbox Player Voice forum could help further push Xbox in that direction.
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Once upon a time, console exclusivity was the norm, with many games never leaving the family of consoles they launched on. However, ports became more common over the years, with developers and publishers using the opportunity to make more money from existing products. Lately, exclusives have been very rare, and most have only stuck to a single console for a certain amount of time before releasing to other systems, and even that has been pretty rare. It appears that the industry may be reversing this trend, however, with a recent report indicating that PlayStation will no longer be porting its single-player games to PC.
Source: Xbox Player Voice
