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Xbox fans were surprised earlier this year when Nintendo thanked “our friends at Microsoft” for making Cuphead on Switch a reality, and earlier this week Microsoft also revealed it will publish Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition on Nintendo Switch. While Microsoft and Nintendo have also been teaming up to promote cross-platform play, it looks like we won’t see any other first-party Xbox exclusive games heading to the Switch or PS4.
“The past year has been an exciting time for us as we have more than doubled the internal creative teams making up Xbox Game Studios,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in statement to gamesindustry.biz. “As these new studios transitioned in, we were aware of some existing commitments to other platforms…