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smroadkill15 on 14 April 2022
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curl-6 said:
smroadkill15 said:

Bethesda games will be exclusive like Starfield, ES, Redfall, Fallout, new IP's, etc. Except for legacy releases like they did for Quake Remaster. From ABK, CoD will stay multiplat, but Xbox will benefit greatly from day 1 Game Pass releases and marketing. A WoW release on console will likely be multiplatform since it's a legacy title. My take, vast majority of Bethesda/Zenimax releases will be exclusive while ABK will be mostly multiplatform, at least early on, with the occasional exclusive like a New Crash game or new IP. It will be interest to see if Diablo 4 or Overwatch 2 will be exclusive since those games are really far in development, my guess is multiform for both. Either way, Game Pass on day 1 and marketing for all of these is huge benefit. 

I highly doubt they'll keep the next Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Doom, Wolfenstein, etc off Playstation. They'd just be leaving too much money on the table. We're in an age where MS has put games like Cuphead and Ori on Switch and Sony has put MLB The Show on both Xbox and Switch. Exclusivity is becoming less and less prevalent.

PS5 is likely to finish with a userbase of over 100 million consoles, MS isn't going to keep a game like Elder Scrolls 6 off a userbase that lucrative. Sure, it will likely be day 1 on Gamepass or even a timed exclusive at most, but it will come to Playstation.

Unless it's a legacy title (Minecraft, Fallout 76, Quake remaster) or with prior obligations (Deathloop, Wasteland 3), I wouldn't get your hopes up. Phil has already implied ES6 will be exclusive. MS isn't worried about leaving money on the table. Cuphead and Ori are not from first party studios, so Xbox was okay with it because it helps those studios. MLB The Show was not Sony's choice to go multiplatform. If Xbox want to really be attractive they know they need exclusives, and big ones that that. Unless MS comes out and blatantly says a game is going to stay multiplatform like CoD, don't expect it to be for any new games.