You and everyone else is misreading the CFO’s comments. The CFO is in no way at all suggesting anything that contradicts what Phil had roundaboutly confirmed already. There won’t be new Bethesda games coming to competing platforms beyond the 2 PS5 exclusives. It will keep getting ongoing GaaS titles and those 2 exclusives and nothing else.
The CFO says the model where they allow games to be sold on competing ecosystems will change in the future. You just left it out of your OP for whatever reason.
No that doesn’t make any sense actually. Nobody wants to play these games on a mobile screen as their primary way to experience them, and if they can get them streamed to a large screen they have no incentive whatsoever to give up all their month long progress and drop $70 for the same experience they’d get for free on the platform with the superior version. lol
This is where I’m at. It seems some people aren’t past stage one yet and are clinging to any sliver of hope.
Anyone with doubts should probably just buy an Xbox if Bethesda/Zenimax games are important to them. It’s not complicated.
Xbox doesn’t owe anyone an explanation nor are they obligated to share their strategy regarding Zenimax at this time. The ink on the acquisition isn’t even dry.
MS is about making money. They have owned Minecraft for years, and don’t have it exclusive. I imagine that the decisions haven’t been made about Zenimax yet internally. No matter what they decide, you as an Xbox gamer will get the game day one on GP
So chill, and stop worrying so much about what other gamers get or don’t. This is business, and making money is the most important part
They do owe their customers an explanation when the announcement was leveraged to boost pre-order sales. If the ink isn’t dry, then they should shut up already instead of baiting people along with this song and dance of wishy-washy statements. There’s nothing wrong with asking for clarification. Be a fan, not a fanboy.
Yes once again, things are taken out of context. Microsoft and Nadella are funding 1st party to drive Game Pass and eventually Xcloud. For now, console still matters in terms of Game Pass momentum. In the future, it may not. When the next ES comes out in 2024 and PS5 gamers can access it from a Game Pass app on their TV using their Dual Sense controller over a connection giving them a 10 to 20ms latency running off of Series X APUs in the cloud, does any of this matter? They’d be paying for the same service running off the same hardware but Microsoft wouldn’t have to take a hardware loss to get them into the ecosystem.
In the short term, I expect Bethesda games not already committed to Playstation to remain console exclusive. In the future, it won’t matter. It remains to be seen whether the development cost for another console platform still makes sense in that (“doesn’t matter”) environment though.
End of the day, I feel like Xbox gamers are looking at this wrong. Microsoft may have 35 to 40 games in development right now. That would cost 2 to 3K to purchase all that stuff individually. Game Pass is the Xbox exclusive. Whatever business model they need to engage in to continue bring more value to the service, I’m all for. Even if those games were ported, I don’t understand someone sitting on the other side of the plastic wars bragging about how they saved $300 to $500 on a console Microsoft is losing money on because they have the option to spend over $2K more for the same content somewhere else. Once Microsoft is releasing these games frequently, I think a lot of gamers may finally have an epiphany.
Like many others have said, they need to be quiet because this is really annoying, especially when Phil already gave an answer to this, once the sale goes through they will own all those franchises and they won’t owe nobody an explanation, they will put those games on whatever systems they want and that’s it, whenever they get asked this question until the deal is done they should just say “can’t talk about it now” and stuff like that because this really doesn’t help anyone.
I understand that MS has gotten huge backlashes before like on 2015 with the TR exclusivity and they’re really afraid of stuff like that but they need to stop trying to make people who will never buy an Xbox or get into their ecosystem happy, they should just focus on making their brand stronger (Consoles, PC, Smartphones with Xcloud etc). There are people who will buy their consoles, subscribe to GP just because of those Bethesda IPs alone, Fallout and Elder Scrolls are very popular franchises, if it was Sony or Nintendo those games would never come out on another platform, MS needs to be more like them in that regard.
Yeah it would suck for people who only game on those platforms but like we get told when Sony pays for timed exclusives “Their job is to make PlayStation more appealing” Microsoft should be doing the same with Xbox, keep making it more appealing, just my opinion.
Man i was so hyped for xbox in this next gen, i don´t have money to buy 2 consoles so things like exclusives are a decisive factor for me, if this is indeed true now im wondering if i made the right decision
Yeah, I am seriously thinking about investing in PS from now. Makes no sense when you can play all Sony exclusives + half of MS exclusives on one console.
Sonys attitude towards Xbox, cross play, the future of the industry is very hostile and is stopping progress from being made. If MS puts Zenimax games on PS, then they reward Sonys approach and directly harm thier vision
Yeah it’s kinda crazy how he has turned around so fast and I doubt he knows more, regarding this.
Had MS not cared about exclusives they would have let all the newly acquired studios make games for all platforms, hell they would have brought all their exclusives to other systems.
Phil has been saying the exact opposite of that when the subject was ecosystems.
I honestly feel like Jez is slowly moving away from defending Xbox. It wouldn’t be logical anymore to be an Xbox fan if Microsoft continues to make an investment into the Xbox ecosystem feel worthless. If Starfield releases on PS5, I don’t see how the Xbox platform can be defended (especially this early in the gen where 2021 for Xbox seems sparse in comparison to the competition in terms of blockbuster exclusive games).
