ARK 2 comes exclusively in Game Pass for three years
While console exclusivity is a thorn in the side of many gamers, the industry’s big players just don’t stop pulling off their million dollar deals for exclusive titles. Microsoft has now for $2.3 million at ARC 2 snapped up and thus secured the exclusive rights to the long-awaited successor for three years ARK: Survival Evolved secured. This is great news for all users of the Game Passbut of course equally devastating news for all Playstation players.
Where does the information come from?
The business was noticed by a submission by the ARK publisher Snail Games to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The well-known ARK YouTuber GP, who specializes in news about the ARK series, became aware of this agreement. The document details the $2.3 million deal between developer studio Wildcard and Microsoft, which states that Microsoft will have exclusive rights to ARK (buy now ) 2 receives. This also means that the sequel to ARK: Survival Evolved will be included in Game Pass right from day one.
So this agreement should make all Xbox and PC gamers happy because they can start directly with ARK 2 from the release and don’t even have to pay the full price for the successor to the survival hit. In this way you can confidently test whether the game is good for you at all.
Playstation players look into the tube
In return, that means of course for all players Sony consoles that they at least have to wait three years for ARK 2, if it should appear for Playstation consoles at all. So far, developers and publishers have not yet expressed whether ARK 2 would ever make it to Sony brand consoles.
One of the big innovations in ARK 2 is cross-platform modding. Mods from the PC can therefore also be used on Xbox consoles without any problems. Since Sony likes to get in the way of cross-platform offers, the Microsoft exclusivity should be an advantage, at least in this respect. ARK 2 is slated to release in 2023 exclusively for Xbox Series X/S and PC. What do you think of the exclusivity deal Microsoft snapped up?
Reference-www.pcgames.de