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Xbox’s Exclusivity Deal for STALKER 2 Cost More Than It Took to Make the Game

It turns out that STALKER 2 developer GSC Game World got an incredible deal from Xbox to make the game a timed exclusive.

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STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is almost two years old at this point, and more information has come out about the deal developer GSC Game World struck up with Microsoft to make it a timed Xbox console exclusive.

Xbox shelled out more than Stalker 2’s dev cost to make it a timed exclusive

Although Xbox has a good number of talented first-party studios, it still makes deals with third-party teams to either publish their games, secure day one Game Pass releases, or even have games launch as timed exclusives on its platform. In 2024, perhaps Xbox’s biggest third-party timed exclusive was STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, a game that launched as a day one Xbox Game Pass title and skipped a release on PlayStation.

STALKER 2 was all over Xbox’s........

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