Microsoft will honor Bethesda’s PS5 exclusives, but future console releases will be ‘case by case’

Following the announcement of Microsoft’s $ 7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda Softworks’ parent company ZeniMax, which owns Doom, FalloutAnd more, some of the biggest questions I saw on the internet were whether future Bethesda games would become Microsoft exclusives and whether the previously announced PlayStation 5 exclusives Deathloop and GhostWire: Tokyo it would remain that way.

Now we have a little more clarity: Microsoft will honor the exclusivity commitments of Deathloop and GhostWire: Tokyo, But other games will come to non-Xbox platforms “on a case-by-case basis,” Xbox chief Phil Spencer said. Bloomberg.

Both titles are slated to be timed PS5 exclusive, and both are supposed to launch on PC as well when they come out sometime in 2021. Whether they’ll make it to Xbox consoles remains to be seen, but given today’s acquisition, that’s now. It seems more a question of “when”.

Deathloop, a first person shooter game about killers trapped in a time loop, it is the latest game from Arkane Studios, which is known for developing the Dishonor series and 2017’s Dam. The game was originally scheduled for release this year, but was delayed until 2021 in August. GhostWire: Tokyo is a first person melee and magic game where you fight ghosts in Tokyo. It is developed by Tango Gameworks, creators of The evil inside and Evil within 2.

And if you are currently a The Elder Scrolls: Online player, you should know that the game “will continue to be supported exactly as it was, and we expect it to continue to grow and prosper on each of the platforms that are currently supported,” according to ZeniMax Online Studios’ studio director Matt Firor. That game is currently available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Stadia. The studio said in August it would be coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X.