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Cerebralbore101 on 29 March 2023
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Machiavellian said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

Microsoft's EU Remedies Target Only Cloud Streaming Rivals, Sources Says | Reuters

So anonymous sources. Neat.

Microsoft told EC right from the start that future titles will be decided on a case-by-case basis.

The case by case basis claim is just a sad effort by MS to muddy the waters. It has zero bearing here.

In an interview with Kotaku Phil Spencer claimed all the way back in October of 2020 that MS didn't buy Zenimax in order to pull games from rivals. Then they proceeded to pull Zenimax games Starfield and Redfall from rivals. And even within that interview he was using the case by case basis gobbledygook to muddy the waters.

Edit for Source: https://kotaku.com/xbox-boss-phil-spencer-on-series-x-launch-halo-infinit-1845392984

Edit: Don't make me hunt down my pre-2021 comments on various articles where I take Spencer at his word and believe him on Starfield coming to PS5. I've no doubt you remember my comments from back then.

Proof again, you did not like the term case by case which is pretty explicit.  It means MS can make all Bethesda games exclusive some or none.  But since it doesn't conform to your opinion you throw it out.  This is what we call bias.

One of my biggest issue with post like yours is that you take a snippit of the whole interview to make your point but lets take the whole thing and put it into context.

“Is it possible to recoup a $7.5 billion investment if you don’t sell Elder Scrolls VI on the PlayStation?” I asked.

“Yes,” Spencer quickly replied.

Then he paused.

“I don’t want to be flip about that,” he added. “This deal was not done to take games away from another player base like that. Nowhere in the documentation that we put together was: ‘How do we keep other players from playing these games?’ We want more people to be able to play games, not fewer people to be able to go play games. But I’ll also say in the model—I’m just answering directly the question that you had—when I think about where people are going to be playing and the number of devices that we had, and we have xCloud and PC and Game Pass and our console base, I don’t have to go ship those games on any other platform other than the platforms that we support in order to kind of make the deal work for us. Whatever that means.”

So in that statement he is directly telling you that he believes only providing games on Xbox ecosystem is enough.  So basically as always people take one small statement and make it into whatever they want but context wise, its very clear he is saying that making Elder Scrolls exclusive to MS platform is all MS needs.

Provide those comments where Spencer stated Starfield was coming to PS5, then you have a case but please provide the whole statements not just some small snippit you believe proves your point but does not.

I linked to the article for people to read. If I didn't want them reading the whole thing I wouldn't have provided a source.

"I don't have to ship those games on any other platform than MS platforms" is perfectly compatible with "We didn't buy Zenimax to withhold games." so long as MS doesn't withhold games. And yet they did.