Bernkastel
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With Zenimax they were slightly vague until the deal was closed. The day the deal was closed they dropped thisthat if they made a clear declaration from the start, that thread would haave not happened.
instead they kept it vague enough for long anough that when they dropped the exclusivity statement, the impact was lessened
same is happening with the actiblitz and bungie deals thus far, all saying they are not here to take games away...until they most likely will because you don't pay billions just for profit margins, especially because if near future profit margins were anough to pay for the acquisition itself, the acquisition price would have been higher
but as i said, i'm no industry mastermind, so maybe no exclusivity makes total sense and i just don't get it.

Microsoft is finally clarifying the situation regarding future Bethesda games
So for exemple, nothing is ruled out for Indiana Jones coming to PS5 but the next DOOM, Elder Scrolls VI and all IP from Bethesda are gonna be Xbox exclusives. To be more clear: Phill basically said Xbox exclusive will be available on all plateforme were GamePass is available. Elder Scrolls...
- Xbox community, what they should feel is a huge investment in the experience they're going to have in the Xbox ecosystem
- we want the Xbox ecosystem to be the absolute best place to play and we think game availability is absolutely part of that
- “Is it possible to recoup a $7.5 billion investment if you don’t sell Elder Scrolls VIon the PlayStation?” I asked.
“Yes,” Spencer quickly replied. - 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.
- our goal is to get as many people into the Xbox community