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Mandalore76 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.

Sony had to put MLB The Show on both XBox and Switch because the MLB insisted they be represented on all platforms.  The MLB realized it was a bad look to have their flagship video game be available to only 1 console fanbase.  FIFA, Madden NFL, NHL, etc all have representation on more than one console.  So, it's not like Sony decided to it in the interests of making additional sales outside of their own ecosystem.  This was something that was foisted on them by the licensor.  The MLB licensing deal had come up for renegotiation, and if Sony hadn't agreed to MLB's demand, Sony wouldn't have gotten their contract extended.

So, it's not the same case as whatever Microsoft is going to do with the Bethesda games in the future.  Because, Microsoft isn't licensing rights from Bethesda.  They outright own them now.  As far as I know, there is nothing in the purchasing contract that prohibits Microsoft from making those games exclusive.  Meanwhile, the Bungie acquisition by Sony outright states that Bungie's games must remain multiplatform.

I'm not saying that Microsoft won't publish Elder Scrolls and the like on PlayStation.  But, there is nothing in place to prevent them from making the games exclusive to XBox and PC either if they do choose to go that route.