Will Bethesda Games be Xbox Console Exclusive?

[Proven]

@Mort

The only reason to drag it out is to ease the bad news. Zenimax games will be day 1 on Game Pass? No shit, sherlock. That would not even be a thing to “reiterate” if Bethesda where normal first party. They are going multiplat, fucking hell.

I would say there are maybe half a dozen people who know the final decision so yes it’s up in the air because not many people know the answer. You can rest assured that the people who make the final decisions know and have known for months.

[Borealis]

@thiagosilva

What ?

some say Serrano is not an insider…

The dude is a clown got multiple things wrong in the past

[Hindle]

Anything MMO related I think goes multi. Everything else well I assume exclusive

[Hindle]

Can see Wolfenstein III and the next Doom game as well as all previous entrys came to PS

[Borealis]

Starfield needs to be exclusive that is a can of worms you don’t want to open if it is multiplat

[Hindle]

@Borealis

Starfield needs to be exclusive that is a can of worms you don’t want to open if it is multiplat

I think it is. Honestly MS need to go full multiformat if Bethesdas games come to PS

[Dabanton]

@Proven

One of the reasons we started XboxEra was to try and create an informed platform about Xbox. There really isn’t that much good journalism or opinion or whatever involving Xbox. Jez and Rand are probably the most notable and they do a great job but it’s a bit slim from there. Most other opinion involving Xbox is viewed from the lense of someone who doesn’t like Xbox or frankly isn’t informed. I don’t think this is necessarily the fault of any one individual but the fact that a lot of games journalist grew up not caring about the platform or are clearly biased towards Sony or Nintendo. Again, not bad, there’s just a big gap in knowledge for one of the biggest platforms.

It’s embarrassing that its their jobs to be informing us and instead I as someone who casually follows this stuff knows more. It’s most notable around E3 time. Watching the live reactions and seeing how many game writers know little to nothing about Xbox. I mean if you claim to like games how can an entire platform be ignored?

XboxEra has been a very welcome respite from the failure of a lot of big sites to have decent Xbox commentary.

[PsyDec]

@Windows

He basically says that he thinks that Bethesda will still release games that are being worked on for PlayStation as to not waste any assets or devalue what they bought. , he says that he thinks so, he says that his guts tell him, he says that his opinion is based on what Phil said, so I concluded that he doesn’t know.

But can I check what the big deal is if this is the case? Remember how weve all been saying that Xbox is playing the long game? That doesn’t magically end in 2021.

If that is true that’s 4 or 5 games tops -out of 10 over the next 5 years- that would not be exclusive. 5 years from now we won’t be having the discussion because no games will be partly developed.

[samarz]

@PsyDec

But can I check what the big deal is this is the case? Remember how weve all been saying that Xbox is playing the long game? That doesn’t magically end in 2021.

If that is true that’s 4 or 5 games tops, out of 10 over the next 5 years that would not be exclusive. 5 years from now we won’t be having the discussion because no games will be partly developed.

Aren’t games developed for PC then consoles towards the end of the dev cycle? Starfield, I’d be curious to see how far into the PS5 build they were when Microsoft announced they were acquiring Zenimax.

[Hindle]

Sony are literally holding subscription services like XGP back with thier refusal to fully embrace. MS are just so fucking stupid if they dont see it

[Mlion003 (Mustafa)]

Hello

Remember when in 2018 Xbox acquired multiple studios to create XGS, some games were still released on PS and other platforms. But that’s only because those studios’ had commitments. And Xbox needed to honour those agreements. I believe it will be the same for when the Zenimax aquation closes, if any of those studios under Zenimax were working or are still working on a multiplate title it will be honoured.

But all future new titles will be %100 exclusive, I could be wrong but knowing Xbox’s record of accomplishment all those new titles will be exclusive.

[Hindle]

@Mlion003

Hello

Remember when in 2018 Xbox acquired multiple studios to create XGS, some games were still released on PS and other platforms. But that’s only because those studios’ had commitments. And Xbox needed to honour those agreements. I believe it will be the same for when the Zenimax aquation closes, if any of those studios under Zenimax were working or are still working on a multiplate title it will be honoured.

But all future new titles will be %100 exclusive, I could be wrong but knowing Xbox’s record of accomplishment all those new titles will be exclusive.

Good point

[Mlion003 (Mustafa)]

@Hindle

Good point

Thank You

[PsyDec]

@Mlion003

Hello

Remember when in 2018 Xbox acquired multiple studios to create XGS, some games were still released on PS and other platforms. But that’s only because those studios’ had commitments. And Xbox needed to honour those agreements. I believe it will be the same for when the Zenimax aquation closes, if any of those studios under Zenimax were working or are still working on a multiplate title it will be honoured.

But all future new titles will be %100 exclusive, I could be wrong but knowing Xbox’s record of accomplishment all those new titles will be exclusive.

Yup, just like Wasteland 3, and Outer Worlds.

However does this logic mean we expect ES6 to be exclusive?

[Mlion003 (Mustafa)]

@PsyDec

Yup, just like Wasteland 3, and Outer Worlds.

However does this logic mean we expect ES6 to be exclusive?

I believe it does, although it is a continuation it is a new title. So I do believe it will be exclusive.

[TavishHill]

Xbox and Bethesda will talk this week about what the acquisition means

[MonkeyBoyFrancis]

@Mlion003

Remember when in 2018 Xbox acquired multiple studios to create XGS, some games were still released on PS and other platforms. But that’s only because those studios’ had commitments. And Xbox needed to honour those agreements. I believe it will be the same for when the Zenimax aquation closes, if any of those studios under Zenimax were working or are still working on a multiplate title it will be honoured.

This you will find, is why Bethesda is sitting on announcements.

@PsyDec

However does this logic mean we expect ES6 to be exclusive?

Yes. Both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls IV were only announced for “Next generation” and Indiana Jones has no platform announced…just a lot of “Can’t wait to play it” tweets from Xbox accounts.

[MaulerX]

@TavishHill

“Instead, they will explain what the deal means for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.”

I mean, we already know what it means for Game Pass subscribers. It’ll be weird if they hold off answering some of the bigger questions.

[Proven]

@MaulerX

“Instead, they will explain what the deal means for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.”

I mean, we already know what it means for Game Pass subscribers. It’ll be weird if they hold off answering some of the bigger questions.

I think they’ll have to address it or face a lot of scrutiny

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@MaulerX

“Instead, they will explain what the deal means for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.”

I mean, we already know what it means for Game Pass subscribers. It’ll be weird if they hold off answering some of the bigger questions.

By all means hammer the point home that all Bethesda titles will come to Gamepass on day one, but that’s not the number one question in the room because that is already known.