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@PSX :
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."
We do know that Microsoft has made a big studio purchase and kept its new franchise multiplatform before. That's what they did with Mojang and its game
Minecraft. So it wouldn't be wild to see a
Fallout 5 on PlayStation 5. For now, Spencer has said that platforms for future ZeniMax games will be determined on a
case-by-case basis. And even if they make the games multiplatform, Spencer's team can still boast an advantage: ZeniMax's games could be sold at full price on PlayStation but offered at a large discount on the Xbox platform as part of the $10/month Game Pass subscription, a killer deal that already grants players launch day access to every new Microsoft-published game.
There’s nothing normal about interviewing Xbox chief Phil Spencer these days.
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