Bethesda’s latest RPG epic launches September 6th, but it’s not coming to Sony platforms.
When Bethesda Game Studios first announced Starfield, it was 2018 and the company was still its own separate entity underneath Zenimax Media. Its parent was purchased by Microsoft in March of 2021, and the predictable happened: Starfield, Bethesda’s first new IP in 25 years, became a Microsoft-exclusive property. That means Xbox and Windows, but definitely not PlayStation.
Apparently, some people didn’t get the memo, though. In a comical tweet, Bethesda’s senior director of PR Matt Frary announced that a « small handful of reviewers » requested codes for the game… for the PS5. Just in case you don’t get it, the PlayStation 5 is a Sony platform, and Sony is Microsoft’s most-direct competitor in the difficult console gaming space.Because Twitter is Twitter and the Internet is the Internet, he had to post a follow-up tweet explaining that he was not making a dig at the PS5 or Sony, but rather at the people asking him for PlayStation keys to a game that does not exist on Sony’s platforms.
