I mean, Phil never mentioned Sony, Playstation or any specific franchise when talking about Bethesda. To me it sounds like COD will be multiplatform and the rest of Activision/Blizzard games will be exclusive.
Multiple Bethesda execs were talking about not intending to take games off of Playstation so I literally don’t trust anything anyone says until it’s official.
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This is also very true.
This one’s a headscratcher.
Because they have the playbook now, and know exactly how to word things.
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Yes he did
We just went through this with Zenimax man we all know what xbox has meant with their comments. Their games will go where game pass is.
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Just Google “Phil Spencer Bethesda Playstation” and see the hundreds of articles written everytime he mentioned Playstation
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I for one, am excited to spend another year arguing about the word “desire”
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I searched a lot and I’ve literally never saw one article where he directly mentioned Sony, Playstation or any specific IP. I never found he saying something like “We desire to keep Call of Duty on Playstation”.
My guess:
- Warzone still receives content and new maps on all platforms (like TESO, Fallout 76, Minecraft)
- COD games become timed exclusives (whether it’s 3 or 6 months or 1 year…). In 2021, the 2nd best seller in the US was Black Ops Cold War that released in November 2020 so COD has strong legs. + they still get a lot of money
And that would still not contradict their “desire to keep COD on Playstation”.
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For people like me who have all their games and trophies on PS3 and PS4 I would go back to PS5 if Microsoft brought Game Pass there. It was the only reason I switched to Xbox this gen. Respect to Jeff but I think that’s a crazy prediction.
They won’t do timed exclusives
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I actually don’t see Game Pass ending up on PS5 unless it’s a severely gimped version that only stands as an enticement to buy an Xbox
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oh, this will be a fun year
Now here’s an interesting question:
What if honoring existing contracts means No Day 1 on GamePass OR Spartacus first?
Sony has put that shit in games they’ve had marketing rights with before. See RE8.
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NO PROG
Prog’s just free thinking here about existing contracts written by Sony when Activision was a free agent.
Deathloop did not go to PC GamePass Day 1.
I would like to fast forward to when the deal is done I’m already sick of the conversation
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Zenimax was the most annoying 6 months online and this will be much worse
Desire vs Intent.
It’ll haunt your dreams.
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