Xbox and PlayStation Shift Business Models As Console Wars Fade
• Xbox admits it needs to sell games on PlayStation to be profitable, essentially dropping out of the console war
• Sony is in the same situation, relying on live service games rather than exclusives that drove PS4's success
• Neither Xbox nor PlayStation makes enough money anymore just from console and game sales
• Nintendo is now the only company still fully committed to selling exclusive games for its console
• The entire industry is shifting away from the traditional console model focused on exclusives to a new paradigm like multiplatform releases and live service games