The manager participates in a round table where he anticipates that Bethesda games will end up being exclusive to Xbox; except contractual agreements.
One of the questions that Xbox gamers ask themselves after the acquisition of Bethesda Softworks is what will happen to those “some” exclusive games that can only be played in the Microsoft ecosystem. It was the million dollar question and Phil Spencer answered it at a round table on the occasion of the agreement, approved by the European Commission on the afternoon of March 9. By way of headline: apparently all Bethesda games will end up being Xbox exclusive at some point.
Contractual agreements with third parties will not be broken, says Spencer
“I can not sit here and say that each of the Bethesda games will be exclusive, because it is not true,” begins by saying the manager, head of the division, at the meeting held during the night of this Thursday, March 11. “There are contractual obligations that we will fulfill, as we have always done in cases like this.” We are talking about works such as Deathloop, by Arkane Studios, or Ghostwire: Tokyo, by Tango Gameworks, to which a year of exclusivity on PlayStation for a year since its premiere.
And no, not all Bethesda games will be exclusive from the launch in the Xbox ecosystem (Xbox consoles and PC), since “in the future there could be more games that due to contractual or legacy agreements are available on different platforms” , Spencer adds, without making it clear what works are involved.
A message to Xbox gamers: great exclusives on Xbox consoles
“If you are an Xbox user, what I want you to know is that it is all about offering great exclusive games for you that will come out on every platform where Game Pass exists. That is our goal, that is why we are doing all this; it is the root of this agreement that we are building ”. In other words and in a nutshell: all Bethesda games that are released in the future will be available on Xbox Game Pass from their opening day.
To our knowledge, the set of teams that make up Bethesda Softworks has works such as Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI in development; both undated, both without confirmed platforms. Both without determining whether or not they will be exclusive to the ambitious North American ecosystem. MachineGames works on a video game based on Indiana Jones.
