Xbox boss Phil Spencer revealed that Xbox’s extremely anticipated RPG Starfield may have been PlayStation unique and Microsoft had bought Zenimax to stop that from taking place.
While talking with the FTC concerning the Activision Blizzard acquisition (by way of The Verge) as we speak, we all know that Spencer revealed that Sony pays rivals on a routine foundation to skip Xbox. So to stop this from taking place, Microsoft felt it wanted to buy Bethesda to stop it from being a PlayStation unique. Spencer had this to say about buying Zenimax:
“When we acquired ZeniMax, one of the impetus for that is that Sony had done a deal for Deathloop and Ghostwire… to pay Bethesda to not ship those games on Xbox,” Spencer mentioned. “So the discussion about Starfield when we heard that Starfield was potentially also going to end up skipping Xbox, we can’t be in a position as a third-place console where we fall further behind on our content ownership, so we’ve had to secure content to remain viable in the business.”
Microsoft initially bought ZeniMax and its subsidiaries, akin to Bethesda, in 2021, for $7.5 billion. Once the deal was official, it was revealed that Bethesda would launch “some” video games unique to Xbox and PC. Since then, Bethesda launched Redfall as an Xbox / PC unique and plans to do the identical with Starfield.
For extra information on what Phil Spencer mentioned to the FTC as we speak, take a look at our story on how Spencer mentioned that The Elder Scroll 6 would not have a platform but, and is five-plus years away and the way Xbox would undergo “irreparable harm” if it went again on CoD PlayStation guarantees.
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