Phil Spencer says Xbox doesn’t have to ship Bethesda games on other platforms
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Xbox head and executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft Phil Spencer talked about Microsoft’s next-gen strategy, its upcoming consoles and theacquisition of ZeniMax Mediain an interview withKotaku. When directly asked whether Microsoft could recoup its $7.5 billion investment without shippingThe Elder Scrolls VIonPS5, Spencer responded “Yes.”
He then provided a little more clarity while saying he didn’t want to be flippant.
““This deal was not done to take games away from another player base like that. Nowhere in the documentation that we put together was: ‘How do we keep other players from playing these games?’ We want more people to be able to play games, not fewer people to be able to go play games. But I’ll also say in the model—I’m just answering directly the question that you had—when I think about where people are going to be playing and the number of devices that we had, and we have xCloud and PC and Game Pass and our console base, I don’t have to go ship those games on any other platform other than the platforms that we support in order to kind of make the deal work for us. Whatever that means.”
While timed PS5 exclusivesDeathloopandGhostwire: Tokyoare being honored as pre-existing deals, it seems more and more than if gamers will want to play new Bethesda games, they’ll need to invest in the Xbox ecosystem to some extent.
Microsoft previously confirmed that all new Bethesda titles, including big upcoming games likeStarfield, will launch day and date intoXbox Game Pass, while the existing library is also being added.
With the addition ofBethesda Softworksto the existing Xbox Game Studios family, a move that has been described as being based onrelationships, there are now 23 first-party Xbox studios. Regardless of what happens with other platforms, it’s clear players onXbox Series XandXbox Series Scan look forward to a steady stream of games over the next generation.
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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.
