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title: "Xbox fans want exclusives, more backward compatibility, and free online multiplayer"
type: "News"
locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/286906029.md"
description: "Microsoft's new Xbox Player Voice portal aims to gather fan feedback, with top requests for exclusive games, increased backward compatibility, and free online multiplayer. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is reconsidering the strategy for exclusives but has not committed to halting game ports to other platforms."
datetime: "2026-05-19T11:47:19.000Z"
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# Xbox fans want exclusives, more backward compatibility, and free online multiplayer

Microsoft launched a new Xbox Player Voice portal yesterday, aiming to collect feedback from fans and "make it more visible." It certainly hasn't taken long for Xbox fans to make their feedback very clear. The most upvoted feedback on Xbox Player Voice demands exclusive games for Xbox consoles, more backward compatible games, and free online multiplayer.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has already promised that she's "reevaluating" the approach to Xbox-exclusive games and windowed releases of titles, but there has been no firm commitment to reverse the decision to port games to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. "Xbox was built off of great game exclusi …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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