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Unlike Sony that keeps launching games on Xbox /s
The frustrating thing is they're both being shitty for consumers. It's terrible that they're acquiring these previously cross platform publishers and making them exclusives, but at the same time, this is what Sony has been doing for a while (at best, they very recently have started doing PC releases but with a multi year delay, which I don't really count as truly cross platform).
I was meaning more the fact that Bethesda released on playstation until Microsoft bought them. If Bethesda only ever released on Xbox I wouldn't have an issue. But my issue is Microsoft are already pulling their bullshit with another company they acquired.
Sony has been playing this game for a longer time, as @CoderKat said, and nobody cared
Do you know Psygnosis of WipEout fame? They developed multiplatform titles for Staturn, PC and N64, when Sony aquired them that stopped (Well, they launched WipEout on the N64 and that angered Sony but they stopped after that)
Sucker Punch (Ghost of Tsushima) first game was for the N64
Guerrilla Games (Horizon Forbidden West) started developing on the Game Boy Color, and also made games for the GBA and Xbox
And a very long list of developers now owned by Sony, most of them developed for a bunch of different platforms before Sony's acquisition
But the thing is most people think those studios were created by Sony rather than purchased