Xbox boss Phil Spencer revealed that Xbox’s extremely anticipated RPG Starfield may have been PlayStation unique and Microsoft had bought Zenimax to forestall that from taking place.
Whereas talking with the FTC concerning the Activision Blizzard acquisition (through The Verge) as we speak, we all know that Spencer revealed that Sony pays opponents on a routine foundation to skip Xbox. So to forestall this from taking place, Microsoft felt it wanted to buy Bethesda to forestall it from being a PlayStation unique. Spencer had this to say about buying Zenimax:
“After we acquired ZeniMax, one of many impetus for that’s that Sony had accomplished a deal for Deathloop and Ghostwire… to pay Bethesda to not ship these video games on Xbox,” Spencer mentioned. “So the dialogue about Starfield after we heard that Starfield was probably additionally going to finish up skipping Xbox, we will not be able as a third-place console the place we fall additional behind on our content material possession, so we have needed to safe content material to stay viable within the enterprise.”
Microsoft initially bought ZeniMax and its subsidiaries, comparable to Bethesda, in 2021, for $7.5 billion. As soon as 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 does not have a platform but, and is five-plus years away and the way Xbox would undergo “irreparable hurt” if it went again on CoD PlayStation guarantees.
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