Phil Spencer named the main reason for buying Bethesda – the release of exclusives for the Xbox

Head of the corporation’s gaming business Microsoft Phil Spencer made it clear during today’s broadcast Bethesda Joins Xbox – Roundtablethat most of the new games from the company’s studios will be exclusive to Xbox, or rather platforms with support for a subscription service Xbox Game PassThese are Xbox Series X | S consoles, PC and Mobile (xCloud)

At the same time, the top manager confirmed that there will be exceptions. For example, Bethesda’s service-driven games previously released on third-party platforms will continue to evolve across all platforms similar to Minecraft… In addition, Microsoft is committed to fulfilling all of Bethesda’s contractual obligations prior to joining the corporation. In particular, it is temporary exclusivity Deathloop and GhostWire: Tokyo for Playstation 5

In addition, Bethesda also seems to have other contractual obligations (with whom it is not specified), and Microsoft will also fulfill everything under them.

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But the key motivation behind buying Bethesda is an increase in the number of exclusives for the Xbox audience.

“I’m not going to tell you now that every Bethesda game is going to be exclusive because it isn’t. There are contractual obligations that we are going to fulfill, just like with other companies’ purchases. Moreover, there are already games that exist on other platforms, and we are going to continue to support them on those platforms, communities have formed around these games, we respect those communities and will continue to invest there.

But if you are an Xbox user, I want you to know what the point is [всей затеи с покупкой Bethesda] – release of great exclusives for you, on platforms where Xbox Game Pass exists. This is our goal. This is why we all do this. This is the root of our partnership. “

Spencer emphasized that Bethesda Studios have tremendous creative potential to incredibly enrich the Xbox ecosystem.

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