Master plan
- MS goes 3rd party,
- Makes killer games
- All the audience addicted to their games
- MS launches a new console makes all the games exclusieve
- Audience jumps in...
It's funny, that diabolical argument is the one defended here 2-3 months ago in the ABK thread by the vast majority of those who now tell you that the XBOX console is going to disappear and XBOX will be a 3rd party like EA and TakeTwo and that that was the reason to acquire ABK (2 months ago it was "end PS" and "case by case" is a lie)...


180°
Huh? Xbox is not going third-party. They are opening up back catalogue for multi-platform in order to make more money. Nothing wrong with that.
That MS is going to launch new console hardware is a fact. P. Spencer himself has confirmed it and Sarah Bones has been appointed head of Hardware for a reason...
Now what we have to know what the plan is with that hardware and what her goals are with it.
Sell 35-55 million?? So releasing their first party games sooner or later also on PS could make sense.
Sell 60+ or even be "competition" in sales with PS6?? Then the exclusivity of its large franchises will be necessary....
We will see
And I don't believe Xbox won't keep any exclusives at all.
XBOX will continue to have exclusives. In fact, the sources from which the launch of HiFi, SOT etc. to PS and Switch even highlight it. What's more, even in that rumor it appears that FFXVI will come to XBOX

but that part is clearly not interesting.
The question now is knowing what type of exclusivity (total or temporary) and how many games it affects in that "case by case" that in the end ends up being no lie from Phil
From here, threads like this and reactions to launching HiFi and other games on PS5 falls within what is expected in this console war, desires of some and fears of others.