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Grounded and Pentiment first Xbox exclusives to head to Switch

Nintendo Direct today confirmed one of the worst-kept “secrets” in gaming and gave us a date that the first two former Xbox exclusives would make the cross-console leap to Nintendo’s handheld.

Neither is a title that people would have bought an Xbox for, so does keep some of the froth from the mouths of the angry mob, but are good testers for Microsoft to see how some of the more obscure exclusives land. There is no real reason to keep games such as these off other consoles, and if more people playing them means we perhaps get more Grounded content further down the line from Obsidian, then that can only be a good thing. Having spent time as Head of Communications at a professional sports club and working for high-profile charities such as the National Literacy Trust, he returned as Managing Editor in charge of large US-based technology websites in 2020.

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