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 occurring.
Whereas talking with the FTC in regards to the Activision Blizzard acquisition (by way of The Verge) in the present day, we all know that Spencer revealed that Sony pays opponents on a routine foundation to skip Xbox. So to forestall this from occurring, 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 executed a deal for Deathloop and Ghostwire… to pay Bethesda to not ship these video games on Xbox,” Spencer stated. “So the dialogue about Starfield once we heard that Starfield was probably additionally going to finish up skipping Xbox, we will not be ready 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, akin 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 stated to the FTC in the present day, take a look at our story on how Spencer stated that The Elder Scroll 6 would 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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