Xbox head says The Elder Scrolls VI doesn't need to go to any other platform to recoup Bethesda acquisition - smiththoself

Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer has spoken on Xbox's recent $7.5 trillion dollar deal to acquire Bethesda parent keep company Zenimax, and has said that he doesn't believe the company needs to break multiplatform with big upcoming titles such as The Elder Scrolls VI to recoup that cost.

Speaking in an interview with Kotaku, Spencer was directly asked if he believed his keep company would be able to recover the consumption without releasingThe Elder Scrolls VI on PlayStation, saying: "Yes," but also adding "I don't want to be flip about that. This deal was not done to take games aside from another musician base like that. Nowhere in the documentation that we put together was: 'How do we maintain other players from playing these games?' We want more multitude to glucinium able to play games, not less people to be able to go play games."

"But I'll also order in the model," he continued "When I recall about where masses are active to be playing and the number of devices that we had, and we have xCloud and PC and Game Pass and our console base, I don't have to go ship those games along any new platform other than the platforms that we support in order to sort of make the care work for the States. Whatever that substance."

Though it doesn't rule knocked out the possiblity of future Bethesda games releasing on other formats, it does seem to indicate that Xbox Eastern Samoa a company wouldn't be low-level any liability to do so. The accompany has already promised to respect existing contracts with Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo which will still persist arsenic timed PlayStation 5 exclusives for the nonce.

Information technology'll probably still constitute whatsoever time though before we hear close to The Elder Scrolls VI though, with Bethesda saying any formal reveal was still "years" inaccurate back in May so it looks the like we won't observe out for sure enough for some time even so. Meanwhile, you can check out some of our Josh's uneasy feelings on the recent Xbox acqusition of Bethesda concluded here.