Studio Creative Freedom, The Impact Of The Pandemic, And The Overall E3 Show With Bethesda: Highlights From An Interview Of The Head Of Xbox Game Studios

French edition Lefigaro interviews the head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Bootie… The main conversation concerned the acquisition Bethesda

Key details:

  • The Xbox presentation at E3 2023 will indeed be merged with the Bethesda show. The event will take place in a few weeks;
  • The company’s goal: to release new Bethesda games to Xbox Game Pass on release day;
  • Microsoft is not going to interfere with Bethesda’s publishing teams in marketing, sales, communications, overseas offices, etc., and will not impose its own commands on them;
  • Microsoft doesn’t want its studios to only create what’s best for Game Pass, and it won’t a priori follow the Netflix route of releasing content based on in-depth analysis of viewer count data. Priority: Leave creative freedom to developers, and this applies not only to Bethesda, but also to all other internal studios;
  • The impact of COVID-19 has slowed the development of Xbox Game Studios games, with more originals than sequels being affected.

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