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Cerebralbore101 on 29 March 2023
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shikamaru317 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.

No offense, but if you actually thought there was a good chance of Starfield coming to PS5, that is on you. Even in that same interview you are referencing from October 2020, he says that the only platforms he can guarantee for Zenimax games are Xbox Series, PC, and Gamepass/Xbox Cloud Gaming, and said that beyond those 3 platforms, other platforms would be decided on a case-by-case basis. So far he has stayed true to that promise, some like Skyrim Anniversary, the upcoming Fallout 4 current gen port, and the Quake remaster have released on Playstation and/or Switch in addition to Xbox/PC/Cloud, as Phil said that games with a legacy on other platforms would stay on those platforms (meaning that remasters and ports of older games will be multiplat); while others, such as HiFi Rush, Redfall, and Starfield, were each decided to be Xbox/PC/Cloud exclusives on a case-by-case basis.

Even if you did have those hopes to see Starfield on PS5 back in October 2020, by March 2021 those hopes should have been dead, because Phil stated then that most future Bethesda games would only release on platforms where Xbox Gamepass was available:

https://www.eurogamer.net/phil-spencer-says-future-bethesda-games-will-be-exclusive-to-platforms-where-game-pass-exists

The article reads March 2021. So a few months before the commission's findings published in May 2021. Thanks. That was the smoking gun I needed in order to be convinced that the commission wasn't claiming that MS wouldn't foreclose on Playstation.