Two days ago the world discovered, with no small surprise, the acquisition of Bethesda and its parent company ZeniMax by Microsoft products and immediately, both users and professionals, wondered about the fate of the titles belonging to the broad portfolio of the two companies that were also being developed for the consoles of Sony. On the sidelines of the acquisition announcement, the head of the division Xbox Phil Spencer had reassured users PlayStation stating that Bethesda's release of new titles on competing platforms would certainly not fail and ZeniMax itself yesterday confirmed that support for The Elder Scrolls Online su PlayStation 4 will not be ceased. Yet, despite these statements, it would seem that something has actually changed and the well-known blogger indirectly affirms it Jez Corden, intervened in a discussion related to Starfield.
Responding on Twitter to a user's opinion regarding the possibility that Bethesda's sci-fi RPG could be a 'Xbox exclusive, Corden - always close to Microsoft environments - responded with a very concise It will be, that is it will be. If this circumstance were really confirmed, it would be a freezing shower for the many PlayStation users, considering how Sony was very close to getting temporal exclusivity for Starfield on PlayStation 5. Indeed, as stated by Imran Khan, the Japanese company had really come one step closer to closing the deal with Bethesda, before several contractual and economic complications blew up the deal.
Phil Spencer and Bethesda have communicated in recent days that the choice to release a game on one platform instead of another will be evaluated case by case and that there is no common policy to be applied in this regard. In the absence of further communications on the matter from the companies, despite considering the high reliability of Jez Corden, we invite you to take this information with due precautions.
It will be.
- Jez (@JezCorden) September 22, 2020
