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They do not see themselves as such. You still have to log into your Xbox account to play their games on Steam. That's all they really care about. It pumps up the MAU numbers.
Steam is synonymous with 'PC platform' at this point. Microsoft makes far more money releasing games on Steam than they would by locking everything to the Windows App.
Microsoft also, uh.. owns Windows as a platform. I have no idea how you can draw an allusion to releasing on PS5.
I'm surprised there are still people in this thread holding on to hope that these games are coming to PS5. Phil's response seems pretty definitive to me.
Lol, what is up with some people, is reading that hard?
there is no confirmation that the games will not come to other platforms and the first two pages are all like "well, there it is" as if he outright said "these games will be exclusive" as if it was confirmed.
don´t try to read into things which are not confirmed, especially not when someone ends with "whatever that means", do some people think he would go "sure, these games also come to other platforms" when they are about to launch a new console? this is marketing 101, he is being vague for a reason.
there is no confirmation that the games will not come to other platforms and the first two pages are all like "well, there it is" as if he outright said "these games will be exclusive" as if it was confirmed.
don´t try to read into things which are not confirmed, especially not when someone ends with "whatever that means", do some people think he would go "sure, these games also come to other platforms" when they are about to launch a new console? this is marketing 101, he is being vague for a reason.
Pretty evident but thankfully I don't like Bethesda output at all. But for their fan in the Playstation ecosystem it sucks.
Controversial maybe, but to me, even as someone who has primarily gamed on Playstation all of my life and will likely continue to do so, they should absolutely be exclusive.
I long for the days of the 360 in terms of Microsoft software. The first few years of that console were glorious, and they were made by MS being aggressive with their deals. It's been over a decade since Xbox was at its peak, and it was never going to happen again unless MS started channelling a bit of that early 360 energy.
I long for the days of the 360 in terms of Microsoft software. The first few years of that console were glorious, and they were made by MS being aggressive with their deals. It's been over a decade since Xbox was at its peak, and it was never going to happen again unless MS started channelling a bit of that early 360 energy.
Well if you don't want to pick up a Series S or get a PC, you can stream it over XCloud to phone or tablet.
There's multiple ways to experience the content, unlike Sony exclusives which only come out on one platform.
Over in Algonquin my cousin's local library still does 'em. No one ever checks out consoles in the middle of nowhere 🤣
In Chicago however all we get are books. Which is good don't get me wrong! Butttttttt I'd love to get what those smaller townships have, especially with our tax rate >.>
I agree, I'll never play mobile games, but xcloud/luna is the future.
Never in a million years.
Really wish the question would have been are future Bethesda games coming to PlayStation?
They way he worded the question I almost wonder if they were asked not to ask questions directly about PlayStation?
Just wish they would come out and say definitively because the language is always vague. Maybe just because the deal isn't done?
Also if you think this confirms anything the article itself obviously didn't, since they posed the question directly after that answer. And it would have been the headline of the article if he did confirm anything.
They way he worded the question I almost wonder if they were asked not to ask questions directly about PlayStation?
Just wish they would come out and say definitively because the language is always vague. Maybe just because the deal isn't done?
Also if you think this confirms anything the article itself obviously didn't, since they posed the question directly after that answer. And it would have been the headline of the article if he did confirm anything.
I bet there are still some people that somehow still believe those games are coming 😂😂😂
They've been doing just that lol. Only games coming to other platforms was digital legos and indie games for switch. All the big expensive halos, forza, gears have never and will never touch those platforms unless epics wins it's court case and Microsoft can out their own stores on playstation.
That's how I feel.
I have to admit, for some reason I always preferred to play Bethesda games on xbox.
These people are in the business to make the most money, not to put the number of consoles sold on a gold plaque to rub it in the competition's face.
They make their money on game sales, if they own and publish Bethesda games, it only makes business sense to make the most sales possible, which means one way or another, regardless of all the chest-beating at the start of a generation, these games are coming to other platforms.
Right now they want to use this publicity to position their platform as the most enticing, so obviously they won't say, yeah we'll sell our games on other platforms.
They make their money on game sales, if they own and publish Bethesda games, it only makes business sense to make the most sales possible, which means one way or another, regardless of all the chest-beating at the start of a generation, these games are coming to other platforms.
Right now they want to use this publicity to position their platform as the most enticing, so obviously they won't say, yeah we'll sell our games on other platforms.
I will never, ever, ever, ever play a major console game on my phone via streaming. I don't care what company releases that kind of service, I am not interested in supporting it.
Yeah. I'm in Chicago too. Ain't no CPL branches handing out $500 consoles for nothing.
Well this does rather confirm that it is planned to release games on other platforms as well.
I know this statement doesn't state much but it's hints at the direction they want to take Bethesda. Bottom line is just don't expect Bethesda games to hit PlayStation or Nintendo platforms in the future. The sooner we prepare for that inevitability, the better. I'm gonna miss playing Arkane games on PS after Deathloop :(
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Maybe because MS has eyes on gamepass as a box-agnostic service.
If Microsoft can get their platform (gamepass) on other boxes that are not Xbox, they'll jump at that. The question is at what point they become too big for other boxes to ignore. Acquisitions like this, IMO, are part of the process of getting too big to ignore.
That is probably the one and only way those games will come to PS or Nintendo going forward, though, asides from maybe the odd exception.
this was clear from the beginning. they didn't spend that much money to let bethesda do business as usual. if all they wanted was bethesda games on game pass day 1 they could have made that deal with much less than 7.5 billion.
lol he should just stop beating around the bush and say it already. Xbox exclusive.
Not if those people who would want to play Bethesda game subscribe to GP instead of buying the games piecemeal. They care less about units of a game sold than they do about subscribers.
I don't know why this is surprising. Microsoft didn't pay $7.5 billion simply to put those games on a competing platform.
They gain far more in the long run if they can bring people into the PC/Xbox/xCloud/GamePass ecosystem to play those games, rather than just selling a $70 copy on a competing console.
They gain far more in the long run if they can bring people into the PC/Xbox/xCloud/GamePass ecosystem to play those games, rather than just selling a $70 copy on a competing console.
So MS just spend 7.5 billion to keep releasing their games on other platforms? It seems obvious they want the development of games to be exclusive to the xbox. Otherwise why bother. I don't know why it was a debate.
The whole thing is weirdly non-PR-y - we don't have to ship them on other platforms to make it worth it, but we don't want to take games away from other player bases, but we have our own player bases.
The most likely case for the big ones is exclusive xbox/PC for a year or however long to entice people to buy an xbox but then comes everywhere after for the double, triple, quadruple dip like FO/ES. People are still buying Skyrim.
it'll be a while before they have to confirm that. why let news outlets run that headline now? they don't benefit from that now.
Really not surprised and to be frank....MS kind of need the sort exclusives Bethesda can provide.
It certainly worked on me, I went from not being interested to pre-ordering the Series X on all access the next day. The value of game pass is just too good to resist when the alternative is £70 games.
It certainly worked on me, I went from not being interested to pre-ordering the Series X on all access the next day. The value of game pass is just too good to resist when the alternative is £70 games.
You're not wrong lol. But cmon you can't decide on just one way to play these soon-to-be bethesda games. heck if I can get a Series S ill letcha borrow it if anything.
There's legitimately no other reason to purchase Bethesda and then be vague on whether or not the games are coming to other platforms, if not to sow seeds of doubt for mindshare purposes in the lead up to a new generation and then literally remove access from players games that were going to be coming to all platforms regardless because they will already be deeply invested in another platform by the time those games come out. How does he expect people to believe this?
