Given how they front-loaded the launch schedule and ended up wiping out some of their own game communities(the corpse of Arms say hi from under the former juggernaut that was the Splatoon 2 launch).
The silence on their front WRT games suggests that they might be ramping up for a similar blitz for a switch 2.
When it was in dev it had randomly generated animals on the planets. Made each planet more interesting and unique. For an unknown reason it was changed just before the official launch to have 3-4 mobs per planet type.
Steam, for all of the good it did still normalized digital distribution of games. Its normal now that we dont own the games we play they exist on corporate servers, and can be rescinded at the drop of a corporate whim.
Microsoft has been openly against xbox exclusives since at least 2018. They used to brag about it at PAX back then that they were stopping xbox exclusives and that everything was at least going to be PC+Xbox release.