Phil Spencer has been talking about Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda but the studio’s multi-platform future remains unclear.
Will The Elder Scrolls 6 be exclusive to the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S? Since Microsoft’s unexpected acquisition of Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax last month it’s a question that many have asked. Despite this, the future remains unclear for Elder Scrolls and other big Bethesda franchises on the PlayStation platform. When head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, was asked in a recent interview with Kotaku if Microsoft would be able to recoup its $7.5 billion investment in Bethesda without selling Elder Scrolls 6 on PlayStation his immediate response was “yes”. However, Spencer also said that securing exclusives wasn’t necessarily the primary aim of the deal with Bethesda: « This deal was not done to take games away from another player base like that. Nowhere in the documentation that we put together was: ‘How do we keep other players from playing these games?’ We want more people to be able to play games, not fewer people to be able to go play games.” Going back to the question asked of him, though, Spencer made it clear that “I don’t have to go ship those games on any other platform other than the platforms that we support in order to kind of make the deal work for us.
