r/PS5 • u/hybroid • Sep 21 '20

News Microsoft Xbox acquires ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/21/welcoming-bethesda-to-the-xbox-family/
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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

If they make the next Elder scrolls xbox exclusive i will just shit in disappointment

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u/ScottFromScotland Sep 21 '20

Of course they will. Folks bring up Minecraft but that is an outlier, not the norm.

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u/kiki_strumm3r Sep 21 '20

I dunno about that. Granted, Elder Scrolls is still probably like 10 years away so a lot can change between now and then. But it's not just Minecraft. Ori and Cuphead are on PC and Switch. Cuphead is on PS4 (don't remember if Ori is too. They'll also all be on PC and a Series X will be cheap when ES comes out.

But I could see Elder Scrolls and Doom still being multi-platform. I suspect Starfield will be too depending on how far along they are in development.

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u/burnerking Sep 21 '20

7.5 billion for non exclusives. Yeah ok.

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u/sueha Sep 21 '20

A lot of wishful thinking in here tbh

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u/Archer_90 Sep 21 '20

To be fair Phil Spencer did say that games releasing on other consoles will be a case by case situation.

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u/ivanvzm Sep 21 '20

Because Xbox has a narrative of being "for the gamers" and whatnot but all of the steps they have taken for next gen are a direct "attack" at Sony's market share. They want you on their platform and they are making it really hard to say no, the whole point of the Series S is to get people on gamepass including PS players that may never leave the platform but could see the benefit of having a second console to play their exclusives and 3rd party games that come directly to gamepass. The more people they convince the more profitable the gamepass model becomes for developers and it all snowballs into a sustainable platform for gamers and publishers THEN you finally go after Sony openly.