I believe him. There won't be xbox when it releases
Phil Spencer says they haven't decided if TESVI will be a console exclusive "We look at it on a case by case"
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We already heard about his strategy for exclusivity from his emails - everything is exclusive going forward while he was saying "case by case" to the public. How anyone can take what this chronic liar says at face-value is beyond me.
I guess we can see that when modders fix all the bugs and issues in Bethesda games that Bethesda doesn't bother to.
I think by the time ES6 comes out Xbox will be window centric and 3rd party.
Unless they just have an agenda to bleed money for that living room prize
Unless they just have an agenda to bleed money for that living room prize
Fixed for accuracy.
What Phil wants won't matter much when MS finally makes him walk the plank for driving Xbox further into the ground than it was when he took over.
It amazes me that he's lasted this long. The only thing I can think of is Game Pass ties into what MS overall is trying to achieve, but it's not working out. The cost has to be astronomical by now and they keep spending on it. The other thing is gaming is big money nowadays so, of course, MS wants a slice - or actually the whole pie there. But XBox has been on a downward trajectory that isn't slowing and, with Phil's leadership, it's difficult to see that changing.
He has lasted so long for the same reason he got the role to begin with, nobody else wants the job.
He had to beg Satya Nadella to even get this generation of Xbox greenlit, with promises of huge subscription numbers that have SPECTACULARLY failed to materialize. Phil's on borrowed time, and once the CMA puts the bullet in the Activision buyout, that's it for Xbox.
The Xbox consoles may no longer exist at the ESVI release
A new deal has been put forward that will more than likely get CMAs approval. MS gave up cloud publishing rights of all Activision/Blizzard games to Ubisoft. Since cloud is CMAs biggest concern, they will more than likely see this divestment as good enough. After all, the CMA did bend over backwards to accommodate MS' last minute approval, based on a new deal no one ever knew about back then. To the point that even the judge got annoyed.
Yeah that's what he said in the acquisition thing however we know for a fact that that's horse shit since he said in his email all Bethesda games going forward will be exclusive 
Please, don't spread the development resources still, these first party games need to be up to par. Adding more platforms will only make them even worse.
He said it in his emails , obviously excluding old games like quake 2 , but he said under oath he didn't know about elders scrolls 6 despite saying it was going to be exclusive before that
Jimbo had Goodbye Volcano High to counter Starfield on its launch week. I assume he'lll sign Goodbye Volcano High 2 to counter ESVI.
The game is god knows how many years out and it's already on the marketing spin cycle. You gotta give it to the man and Greenberg's team on that front.
Ambiguity on whether the game is exclusive or not is a press winner.
Ambiguity on whether the game is exclusive or not is a press winner.
In six years maybe just maybe phil spencer or new xbox hardware will be a thing of the past..
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I wonder if the other regulatory agencies (who already approved the old deal) will have to approve this one, as well.