Microsoft: Many future ZeniMax titles will be shipped on PlayStation and Nintendo Consoles
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Their biggest launch in years is exclusive, despite being also developed for PS5 and cancelled. Going by their logic, they'll need all of them exclusive to "mitigate the economic cost" since they earn nothing on gamepass.
It won't. They don't buy games, they don't play these type of games.
But Steam, steam will sell loads of copies.
Idgaf about future titles Starfield is their biggest game of this gen. Any damage it's going to do is already done
I never said anything about unit sales. They don’t need to buy it on console or pc. It’s gamepass. The idea is for it to move subs and consoles. Sales won’t be as relevant.
They felt the need to speak after this disastrous E-Mail has been leaked. It’s so obviously damage controlling, how ignorant does Microsoft think regulators and legal bodies are?
If even Red Fall didn’t release on PlayStation then neither will another Bethesda game ever release on PlayStation consoles. Maybe a free to play game nothing else I could imagine. Microsoft is really annoying as hell with their deceiving gibberish.
If even Red Fall didn’t release on PlayStation then neither will another Bethesda game ever release on PlayStation consoles. Maybe a free to play game nothing else I could imagine. Microsoft is really annoying as hell with their deceiving gibberish.
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I remember saying this on gaf and getting laughed at.
Anyone with half a brain cell can see that having timed exclusive for Zenimax games is the smart decision. They need to recover their losses by selling those games on PlayStation as well.
Anyone with half a brain cell can see that having timed exclusive for Zenimax games is the smart decision. They need to recover their losses by selling those games on PlayStation as well.
Well, the Xbox CFO said when they bought Zenimax that the plan for them was to focus them on 'first on' (timed console exclusivity) or 'best on' (multiplatform day one) Xbox, not full exclusivity, specially for the brands that already were in rival consoles.
So maybe new IPs (such as Starfield or Redfall) remain full exclusive forever while sequels of previous IPs continue full multiplatform or get timed console exclusivity.
So maybe new IPs (such as Starfield or Redfall) remain full exclusive forever while sequels of previous IPs continue full multiplatform or get timed console exclusivity.
Either they pick smaller titles/less popular titles and that counts as them shipping to PS, or they count the ones that they are forced to keep multiplat.
It's quite obvious the concern is more with titles that are much bigger and and they will have full control over.
It's quite obvious the concern is more with titles that are much bigger and and they will have full control over.
So why cancel both Redfall and Starfield for PS5? Why "We're focusing on Xbox and gamepass only from now on" as soon as they were acquired? We have their own internal documentation, why pretend otherwise?
TES VI is already confirmed to be exclusive.
The damage is done.
The behavior of Microsoft has created too much animosity for me at least to go and buy Zenimax titles unless there is more to this than just throwing a few of their lesser titles on PS5 or whatever their plan is.
Like always, it's vague as fuck.
The behavior of Microsoft has created too much animosity for me at least to go and buy Zenimax titles unless there is more to this than just throwing a few of their lesser titles on PS5 or whatever their plan is.
Like always, it's vague as fuck.
As mentioned in the OP, they need to have some exclusive content to sell consoles and subs.
Exclusivity that -at least in some cases- can be turned some time after launch into timed console exclusivity, even if it wasn't their original (at least publicly announced) plan for that specific game.
I think Redfall is dead and won't get a PS5 port because its too low quality killed any sales potential, but I think that once they see Starfield getting great reviews but awful revenue with no profit and no decent Xbox HW/GP sales increase, they'll decide to port it to PS5 a year or two later. And to move some game they had planned as console exclusive to be a timed console exclusive or even mulltiplatform since day one.