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In September, Microsoft revealed its intention to acquire ZeniMax Media and its game publisher Bethesda Softworks in a $ 7.5 billion deal that is expected to close in the first half of 2021.
Following the announcement of the ZeniMax deal, Xbox “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/xbox/ “> Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox” href = “https://www.videogameschronicle.com/people / phil -spencer / “> Phil Spencer said Microsoft will honor the existing PS5 exclusivity agreements Bethesda has for games like Deathloop” href = “https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/deathloop/”> Deathloop and Ghostwire : Tokyo.
For future Bethesda games, which will be available on Xbox, PC “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/pc/ “> PC and Game Pass, Spencer said“ we will take other consoles in one case -for case. “
Howard echoed those comments in a GamesIndustry.biz interview published Thursday.
“We see it, and we’ve always done it for ourselves, case by case,” he said. “We will also do it as part of Microsoft. They have been quite open on other platforms and not just within Xbox. This is an outside perspective, but if you go back ten years at Microsoft, you wouldn’t expect them to have a full Office suite on an iPhone either.
“I can’t really project where things will be, except to say we’ve done those kinds of exercises ourselves as independents,” Howard continued. “If you look at every Elder Scrolls game, there has been some exclusivity on Xbox or with Microsoft. We have partnered with all games. Morrowind was basically a console exclusive, Oblivion was a full-length exclusive, Skyrim’s DLC was exclusive for a long period of time.
“We’ll decide what makes the most sense to our audience when the time comes, and I can’t really project today what that looks like.”
With the ZeniMax acquisition yet to be finalized, Howard stated that discussions with Xbox about possible Bethesda exclusives have yet to take place, though he agreed that The Elder Scrolls 6 will only be released for Microsoft platforms. imagine”.
Spencer also emphasized that it was too early for such discussions to occur in a recently published Gamereactor interview.
“First of all, I would like to say that we have not acquired ZeniMax. We have announced our intention to acquire ZeniMax. It is going through regulatory approval and we don’t see any problems there, ”he said.
“We expect the deal to close in early 2021. But I say that because I want people to know that I am not going to sit down with Todd Howard and Robert Altman to plan their future. Since I am currently not allowed to do that, it would be illegal.
“Your question is completely incoming, but I have a lot of questions right now: ‘Is this game exclusive? Is this game exclusive? And right now, that’s not my job regarding ZeniMax. My job is not to sit down and go through his folder and dictate what happens. “
