{"id":896782,"date":"2026-04-04T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/xbox-wont-back-away-from-first-party-and-become-just-a-publisher-insists-evp-matt-booty\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:17:14","slug":"xbox-wont-back-away-from-first-party-and-become-just-a-publisher-insists-evp-matt-booty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/xbox-wont-back-away-from-first-party-and-become-just-a-publisher-insists-evp-matt-booty\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Won&#8217;t Back Away From First-Party And Become &#8216;Just A Publisher&#8217;, Insists EVP Matt Booty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good to know!Ever since Xbox started putting its games on other platforms (particularly PS5), there&#8217;s been speculation about whether the brand could ultimately end up going the way of SEGA during the Dreamcast days and become &#8220;just a publisher&#8221;.Xbox EVP and CCO Matt Booty actually addressed this during yesterday&#8217;s Windows Central interview&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/02\/xbox-wont-back-away-from-first-party-and-become-just-a-publisher-insists-evp-matt-booty\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Erasmo Fleishman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to know!Ever since Xbox started putting its games on other platforms (particularly PS5), there&#8217;s been speculation about whether the brand could ultimately end up going the way of SEGA during the Dreamcast days and become &#8220;just a publisher&#8221;.Xbox EVP and CCO Matt Booty actually addressed this during yesterday&#8217;s Windows Central interview&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72071,192,1583],"tags":[108602,5162],"class_list":{"0":"post-896782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-first-party","8":"category-sports","9":"category-wont","10":"tag-first-party","11":"tag-wont"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}