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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by wronglebowski on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:48PM (#25994469)
My point of reference here is from this twitter thread.

https://twitter.com/RaveofRavendale/status/13094734056039096...

"With Nowhere Prophet, it was an interesting case because we were also launching on Xbox Game Pass at the same time, which had essentially already secured financial success for the console versions"

Not exclusive, still got a significant chunk of cash.

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by lrae on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:58PM (#25994607)
Having the money to port a game to console is great, but usually not comparable to fronting the full development of a game.

There might be a couple where Epic might have done that (kind of, I know they saved some games), but I don't think Microsoft funded any development for a gamepass game so far. (From a third party, not published by Microsoft.)

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