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Bethesda Apologizes to PlayStation Owners for Xbox Exclusivity
Following Bethesda's acquisition by Microsoft, it was made clear that Bethesda Games Studios' upcoming RPG, Starfield, was going to be a console exclusive to Xbox Series X/S alongside PC. Unfortunately, this meant that PlayStation 5 owners would miss out on the game, and it's starting to look increasingly likely that The Elder Scrolls 6 will get the exclusivity treatment as well. Bethesda has now come forward to apologize to PlayStation owners about the exclusivity deal, but assured that it would make their development process a lot smoother on just two platforms.
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Bethesda VP Pete Hines recently spoke on " class="general_link" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >GameSpot Play For All Live, in which he discussed the Xbox exclusivity deal and how that has helped them focus on developing for just two platforms, making the process a lot quicker and smoother. "The other thing you asked about is what is the impact on development. Well, I'm here to tell you, and any dev will tell you this, you go to fewer platforms and your development gets more streamlined you're not worrying about well how does it work on this box versus how does it work on that box," said Hines.
"We're not making it on that box, so it just needs to run as well as possible on this one and on a PC. Narrow focus always helps, the same is true by the way for a game like Deathloop, when we decided to do a partnership with Sony and that game became exclusive to that platform, that development got more streamlined because we said PS5 and PC, that's what we're focusing on," he added.
A bit later in the conversation, Hines apologized to PlayStation fans about this decision. "I totally understand if you're unhappy or pissed or whatever. I get it, those are all real feelings and frustrations. How should you deal with that, I haven't the foggiest idea, I would never presume to say oh here's how you can make it better and feel better. At the same time, there's only so much time I can spend on being focused on what we're not doing. I'm trying to focus on how we are making it for these other platforms and how is that going and where are we and when are we ready to talk about it."
Hines would add, "I don't know how to allay the fears and concerns of PlayStation 5 fans other than to say I'm a PlayStation 5 player as well and I've played games on that console and there's games I'm going to continue to play on it, but if you want to play Starfield, it's PC and Xbox, sorry. All I can really say is I apologize, because I'm certain that that's frustrating to folks but there's not a whole lot I can do about it."
Starfield releases on November 11th, 2022 exclusively for Xbox Series X/S and PC.
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Still, it's the timed exclusivity deals that annoy me more (stuff like The Medium, Deathloop, Ghostwire Tokyo) than a game that's fully developed under the ownership of a new overlord. With timed exclusives, a console manufacturer is simply paying to limit access of a product to other groups of consumers - a properly[censored] practice.