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Why do people think MS will allow Elder Scroll and Starfield on PS5?

Almanac said:
You seem a little narrow minded here. You see Sony as the main target here, but Alphabet and Amazon are the most dangerous players on the field. It's valid to assume that MS is preparing for a huge battle to come.
Nobody knows what's going to happen, people can speculate. My feeling is that the major titles Elder, Fallout, Doom may very well appear on Sony, Nintendo. But yes, I may be wrong here.
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You are. Quote it. At best you'll still get online and F2p and contract games. After that, thats it. Like I said, quote me on it.
 
Almanac said:
You seem a little narrow minded here. You see Sony as the main target here, but Alphabet and Amazon are the most dangerous players on the field. It's valid to assume that MS is preparing for a huge battle to come.
Nobody knows what's going to happen, people can speculate. My feeling is that the major titles Elder, Fallout, Doom may very well appear on Sony, Nintendo. But yes, I may be wrong here.
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You have to walk before you can run. Amazon etc. and game streaming is likely the end goal but when the Xbox ecosystem is lagging behind Sony's it's not a great starting point.

Positioning themselves as the leaders in gaming is going to put them in the best possible place to lead that era in the future (I don't necessarily think they will, I just feel that will be their aim).

I feel like dollar value is being overestimated here when it comes to entertainment. It might work with some people but content is king at the end of the day and if you put all these games on PlayStation, they'll continue to have the most content through their own exclusives + third party content deals they're continuing with.

If Gamepass has all these games and Sony don't have them, Gamepass provides the dollar value + the best content (that's subjective, but these are HUGE series we're talking about). I can't see them passing that up for some short term software sales on the PlayStation.
 
Rockondevil said:
Of course they'll still be on Sony. It's too much money to just throw away.

They'll be on gamepass so that's already a bonus to Xbox and possibly they'll get exclusive content or early release or little bonuses.

I'm sure in the future there will be Bethesda exclusive games, but I definitely can't see any of the huge franchises being exclusive.
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You really think that Xbox bought a massive publisher and all the IP's that go with it so that they can keep the status quo and help a competitor keep its market advantage?

Every single one of those games will be 100% exclusive to Xbox and PC. It's probably best to get your head around it early on. You're just drawing out the pain otherwise. It's like an Xbox fan holding out hope that the next Naughty Dog game will be on Xbox.
 
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cireza said:
If I remember correctly, Phil Spencer himself explained that selling the most Xbox was not his goal.

You do understand that every copy sold on PS5 is going to bring money to Microsoft ?
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You do realize that every $70 game sold on PS is a lost subscription service that pays more than a one time sell, and loses a console sell too, right??
 
Romulus said:
That's actually a good in-between strategy. Make PS5 wait like a year, then when they finally get Starfield etc another road of DLC drops for Xbox that PS5 has to wait for, again.
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Microsoft did this very thing with GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost and Dammed. Microsoft funded these expansions if I remember correctly and made them Xbox exclusive for 12 months before the Playstation got disc versions released.
 
Gavon West said:
You do realize that every $70 game sold on PS is a lost subscription service that pays more than a one time sell, and loses a console sell too, right??
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Console sale = 0 profit.
1 month Game Pass subscription probably does not bring that much money compared to selling one copy of a new game.
And anyway, there are people who are on Switch or PS5 and will never come to Xbox, might as well sell them games as well. Unless you think that every single sale of Ori and Ori 2 could have been converted in the player buying an Xbox :messenger_grinning_sweat:
 
Orthodox Gaming Dad said:
Microsoft did this very thing with GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost and Dammed. Microsoft funded these expansions if I remember correctly and made them Xbox exclusive for 12 months before the Playstation got disc versions released.
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I think you might find that MS paid Rockstar for timed exclusivity. You know, just like Sony did with Control, it's not unusual and it's nothing at all like the Zenimax situation.

As far as Zenimax goes, MS bought Xbox/PC timed exclusivity for all eternity.
 
cireza said:
Console sale = 0 profit.
1 month Game Pass subscription probably does not bring that much money compared to selling one copy of a new game.
And anyway, there are people who are on Switch or PS5 and will never come to Xbox, might as well sell them games as well. Unless you think that every single sale of Ori and Ori 2 could have been converted in the player buying an Xbox :messenger_grinning_sweat:
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Bruh....you must not have played Elders Scroll, Doom, Fallout New Vegas, Doom, Evil Within 1 and 2, Wolfenstein and others, I take it. These are multi million sellers. They sell consoles easily. Youve lost it. Seek help.
 
Gavon West said:
Bruh....you must not have played Elders Scroll, Doom, Fallout New Vegas, Doom, Evil Within 1 and 2, Wolfenstein and others, I take it. These are multi million sellers. They sell consoles easily. Youve lost it. Seek help.
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Just like Minecraft, I know very well.
 
Nitty_Grimes said:
By the time the new elder scrolls comes out probably be 60/70 million PS5's sold, MS gonna say nah fuck releasing to that lot?
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Why not?

Sony says fuck it to 50 million Xbox users and an unnumbered amount of PC users.

Only they have to ability to do it?

For years, every time Sony does a timed exclusive deal it's been if you want to play it buy a PS5, that's all that's been spouted from fans over and over.

Well if you want to play ES6 or Starfield or Fallout, you don't have to buy an Xbox, but you might have to shut your PlayStation off. (Or leave it running idly in the background if it makes you feel better)
 
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cireza said:
Console sale = 0 profit.
1 month Game Pass subscription probably does not bring that much money compared to selling one copy of a new game.
And anyway, there are people who are on Switch or PS5 and will never come to Xbox, might as well sell them games as well. Unless you think that every single sale of Ori and Ori 2 could have been converted in the player buying an Xbox :messenger_grinning_sweat:
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If they did publish one of those games on Playstation they would make some fraction of $70 and it would be a one-time deal. That is chicken-feed compared to the lifetime earnings they make from a customer that buys into their hardware eco-system. One new Xbox customer is worth much, much more to MS than a single sale on an opposition platform.
 
Redlight said:
If they did publish one of those games on Playstation they would make some fraction of $70 and it would be a one-time deal. That is chicken-feed compared to the lifetime earnings they make from a customer that buys into their hardware eco-system. One new Xbox customer is worth much, much more to MS than a single sale on an opposition platform.
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But there are people you will simply never convert to your ecosystem.
 
MilkyJoe said:
MS are a business, not fanboys
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So they are here to maintain the status quo then?

Why bother spending 7.5B when they could have spent much less to just get them day 1 on Gamepass?

1B realistically could have locked up all Zenimax releases for next gen as Day 1 Gamepass games.
 
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cireza said:
If I remember correctly, Phil Spencer himself explained that selling the most Xbox was not his goal.

You do understand that every copy sold on PS5 is going to bring money to Microsoft ?
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his goal is to get as many people subscribe to GAME PASS. Not selling boxes or games on PlayStation.
what kind of mental gymnastics is that? SMH
 
Orky said:
Not selling boxes or games on PlayStation.
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So what's the point in releasing Ori, Cuphead and Minecraft on other systems ?
When you can't convert a market to Game Pass, there is still a profit to be made by selling directly the games.
 
To get their return on investment? Only fanboys care about dishing out burn to the other party. Microsoft is a business entity. They care deeply about profit.
 
Denial.

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Neolombax said:
To get their return on investment?
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MS bleeds money all the time.
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Neolombax said:
To get their return on investment? Only fanboys care about dishing out burn to the other party. Microsoft is a business entity. They care deeply about profit.
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I don't think they are looking at short term plays. The extra 2 or 3 million actual sales they would get can be offset by making their platform more attractive to people that aren't in the platform.

If you really want to play it you will find a way.

Getting you in their ecosystem is much more valuable to them than bringing it to yours.

Just ask Sony.
 
Blue Spring said:
Because Minecraft is bigger than anything bethesda has and still is multiplat
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That is not why the Minecraft IP is multiplatform. Notch placed terms on the sale that MS agreed to. They are still legally bound to keep the IP multiplatform.

Don't assume for a second that they are sharing Minecraft out of the kindness of their heart. Chances are high that there won't even be a PS5 version.
 
Esteldan said:
As a gamer, I think it would be a good move for all as I don't want people to be excluded, but from a business stand point I'd be sceptical.

A lot of people (certainly not saying you, just some) are glued to PlayStation like a religion, the same way people are with iPhones. Value often doesn't win with them. Every game on Xbox could be 20% cheaper and those people STILL wouldn't switch over and I do think games are the only way you're going to win that battle.

I'd still prefer Microsoft stuck to creating their own studios and making brand new experiences instead of limiting the third party pool, but at least their renewed focus on PC means plenty of people won't miss out.
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Oh no you're totally right about me lol. However value is subjective and people can't necessarily afford 2 different platforms to play on so it's either Sony's exclusive lineup or now microsofts/bethesdas output including gamepass. PC gamers are the huge winners here, seeing more playstation console exclusive titles also being available there.
 
Redlight said:
I think you might find that MS paid Rockstar for timed exclusivity. You know, just like Sony did with Control, it's not unusual and it's nothing at all like the Zenimax situation.

As far as Zenimax goes, MS bought Xbox/PC timed exclusivity for all eternity.
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granted, but it is a little similar in that Microsoft has leverage here.
 
Gavon West said:
Again....why the actual fuck would they want to help Sony win ANOTHER generation with THEIR games? Why would they want to help sony sell THEIR consoles??? Why would they willingly give the one thing theyve needed this entire generation (juggernaut titles that sell in the tens of millions of copies: in this case, consoles and subscriptions....) and finally have it, only to squander it off to their nearest competitor??? Youre basically saying Microsoft is going to turn 3rd party after investing $7.5 billion dollars now? You guys arent thinking this through. Holy shit you make no sense!
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by your logic, Xbox exclusives wouldn't be on PC, but alas they are... Which demonstrates how MS prefers revenue over market share.

MS didn't say "no PS releases" because they're not stupid and know they'd get ripped to shreds for a stunt like that, just like they did after their XB1 E3 conference.

Anyway, idc either way since I only like their Wolfenstein series, which is basically dead after that Youngblood trash
 
lastmessiah said:
They don't need to. They are Microsoft. They have some cash already. And they will recover and more when people subscribe to Game Pass to play the games.
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Do you think Microsoft just makes huge investments for fun, without expecting to make that money back? If they do, their entire management should be fired. But no, that's not how massive corporations work.

And I'm pretty sure they're losing money on Gamepass. They plan to make money on it eventually of course, but I'm not sure exactly HOW they plan on doing that.
 
Not sure why. If I was MS I wouldn't put either game on PS5. PS5 owners just have to deal with it and enjoy Demon's Souls, God of War 2, Horizon 2, Days Gone 2, Uncharted 5, among dozens of other exclusive games. Those poor PS5 owners, how will they cope without Elder Scrolls!
 
It's probably not set in stone one way or the other. I guess it depends how much Microsoft care about the hardware race and when the games release. I'd assume Starfield is 2-3 years out and TES even further. The console race might be decided by the time either game is ready to go. If the race is close, I could see Microsoft shutting the door completely on allowing it on Sony's platform. If they are way ahead or way behind, maybe they do timed exclusivity on their platform and then release it to Sony's system at a later date. Assuming VGChartz (haha) is anywhere close to accurate, Skyrim did 6.5M units on PS3 and another 4.4M units on PS4 between the Special Edition and VR Edition. They'd probably sell through 5 million units of a new release in the series. A late port would conservatively be worth $245M without factoring in DLC.

Or maybe the take a hard line to push Game Pass and only offer it via that service everywhere. And if that's the case, they could also start delisting their back catalogs from other platforms. That's the only scary timeline I see.
 
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The truth is we don't know. I can see there being some timed exclusivity though. Surely Microsoft would want to maximise profits.
 
"Why do people think MS will allow Elder Scroll and Starfield on PS5?"

Because we've heard this time and time again:

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Cuphead is a true console exclusive for Xbox, and that's not necessarily a good thing

The developer is still taking huge financial risks Cuphead has been a staple of Xbox showcases in past years, each time...
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www.eurogamer.net

Cuphead will never come to PS4

Cuphead will never come out on PlayStation 4, its developer has confirmed.
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www.gamesindustry.biz

2K Announces BioShock as an Exclusive Xbox 360 and Games for Windows title

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There's probably loads of other examples, but I can't be bothered to go and look for them.

It's already been clearly stated that Bethesda's IPs will turn up on other consoles on a case by case basis. I'm just going to wait and watch Elder Scrolls, Starfield, and Fallout drop on the PS5, and chuckle at the reactions from those who currently have their heads stuck in the ground, singing "la la la i can't hear you ..."
 
To be honest, you better hope they are coming to Playstation OP.

If not, your Game Pass is gonna be like $100 per month to pay for those games.
 
FranXico said:
That is not why the Minecraft IP is multiplatform. Notch placed terms on the sale that MS agreed to. They are still legally bound to keep the IP multiplatform.

Don't assume for a second that they are sharing Minecraft out of the kindness of their heart. Chances are high that there won't even be a PS5 version.
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yeah and the only way to play full ray traced version of Minecraft could be on Microsofts platforms. Maybe
 
Kagey K said:
So they are here to maintain the status quo then?

Why bother spending 7.5B when they could have spent much less to just get them day 1 on Gamepass?

1B realistically could have locked up all Zenimax releases for next gen as Day 1 Gamepass games.
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Because they take the lions share of the profit on each game sold?
 
MilkyJoe said:
Because they take the lions share of the profit on each game sold?
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I don't think that's what their are in for right now. Especially if Deathloop and Ghostwore sell the abysmal numbers I expect them to.

Only time will tell though.
 
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cireza said:
If I remember correctly, Phil Spencer himself explained that selling the most Xbox was not his goal.

You do understand that every copy sold on PS5 is going to bring money to Microsoft ?
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You don't understand that they goal is not to sell consoles, but to push people into their ecosystem (xbox + PC + + gamepass + xCloud). Every game sold on PS5 is one person less in MS ecosystem.
 
Mister Wolf said:
They are desperate to play those games on their chosen console. I expect we all will find out with Starfield next year.
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This is from the official acquisition announcement:

"One of the things that has me most excited is seeing the roadmap with Bethesda's future games, some announced and many unannounced, to Xbox console and PC including Starfield, the highly anticipated, new space epic currently in development by Bethesda Game Studios."

I see only Xbox and PC there. We'll see soon enough anyway.
 
Bethesda said they will continue to publish their games and want you to enjoy them on whatever device you own. That's pretty clear to me that Starfield, Elder Scrolls will be on PS5.

But Starfield is not out until 2022 at absolute best, ES maybe 2025, so we'll be waiting an age to find out.
 
Maybe because those games cost hundreds of millions of dollars and putting on gamepass won't make the money it needs.
Isolating Playstation and Nintendo sales is gonna cost alot of money
 
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