Bethesda's 'Will They, Won't They' Relationship with PS5 Rumbles On

Moving away from PlayStation will happen slowly but surely due to the number of developers and games under the Bethesda umbrella.

Honestly I am fine doing without either of those titles if that happens. I’m just happy the future of Final Fantasy is on PlayStation.

Sure, first on Gamepass, exclusive cosmetics, events, etc only on Xbox, sold on Sony and Ninty platforms only as full priced games not as part of competing subscription services, and then at a later time 6-12 months after Xbox/PC release.
We know what the “better or best” on Xbox means from the past, they always had a clause which said that if it comes to Xbox late a game had to have additional content. It was generally worthless.

Meh, they can keep em for all I care. The big games aren't coming out for years anyway and even then they'll probably be full of bugs and microtransactions. This is the company that made Fallout 76 a running joke for over a year

I expect the major franchises to be on Playstation, they still have the selling point of putting them on Gamepass as opposed to having to be bought elsewhere. At the end of the day they're a business and it would just be a bit silly to ignore millions of existing customers

Enjoy your early horse armor Xbox fans.

Wherever they go, if the games are good, I’ll play them. It’s easier than ever to access the Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo ecosystems all at once. I don’t play Bethesda, I don’t play Playstation, I play games.

Honestly I find Xbox's securing of major WRPG franchises and developers rather interesting as a whole. I feel like this might be a reactionary move to Sony securing so many prolific JRPG franchises in the past like Trails, Persona and obviously mainline Final Fantasy. Elder Scrolls VI being an Xbox console exclusive for the first time since Morrowind in of itself could actually attract a significant amount of Japanese players to the platform considering Series S is very much Japanese-catered in design considering it's super compact and looks easy to transport on the go much like consoles like Switch and GameCube. That and Elder Scrolls has a massive Japanese following. While it's not on the level of something like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest in that region, it's pretty sizable.

I'm generally super platform agnostic and try to access everything in terms of gaming so whether Bethesda's games are now under the house Halo built doesn't matter to me long term. I'll pick up GhostWire and Deathloop on PC over PS5 anyway lol. Point me to where the games are and I'll bite.

@Kanji-Tatsumi Y'all act like FO76 is literally the only game Bethesda as a whole has ever made lmao no wonder you don't care about this acquisition

DOOM Eternal literally came out this year so it's not like this company just banks on a single game lol

@thefourfoldroot Did you just refer Nintendo as Ninty!?

@HotGoomba___Rebrand
Yep.

@TheFrenchiestFry It’s kinda funny that both Ghostwire Tokyo and Deathloop were heavily shown in the initial PS5 trailer but are both made by companies now owned by Microsoft 😂

They just need to honour the current commitments and then everything else should be xbox/pc only. Otherwise there was no point in buying bethesda. The purchase of Bethesda is about keeping xbox users loyal to the console and gamepass.

It sounds like Bethesda don't want to move away from the Playstation platform, but will reluctantly need to succumb to the will of their new step father, Mr Spencer.

Well we all know how Bethesda's "best" turns out, so it's no big loss

@nessisonett We really about to see "XBOX GAME STUDIOS" on a PS5 game box that has the label "PS5 Console Exclusive"

I plan on getting a Series X at some point to not miss out, but for those who don't want to game on Xbox or PC, it's easier to just accept that Bethesda's games will be exclusive to Xbox and PC from here on out and if some, or all, do end up on PS5 then it'll be a pleasant surprise. Currently? Just have to hope Sony's first party teams can keep delivering. Losing out on DOOM, Elderscrolls and Fallout hurt in the FPS and WRPG genres but the good news is Sony has first party teams in Guerrilla and Insomniac who could pick up that slack. Horizon: Forbidden West will obviously be awesome and it'd terrific if Sony would bring back Resistance with Insomniac back at the helm.

@UltimateOtaku91

Yeah it's not like Elder Scrolls III-V, DOOM 1, 2, 2016 and Eternal, Evil Within 2, Dishonored or Prey 2017 were that good or anything. All they made was one game called Fallout 76. Xbox has made the worst decision in their lives

@Gamer83 I'm pretty sure Resistance is done in terms of Insomniac. All that's left I guess is Killzone but I didn't particularly care for Shadow Fall

@TheFrenchiestFry "Y'all act like FO76 is literally the only game Bethesda as a whole has ever made"

Yes. That's exactly what I said /s

Also I don't know who "Y'all" is because I was the first (and so far, only) person to mention Fallout 76 in this article.

@blacklivesmatter
No, MS don’t care much about Xbox, the Bethesda buy out was to ensure big games would be on Gamepass and not PS Now should Sony decide to actually market its brilliance. No reason they wouldn’t sell it full price a year later on PlayStation, just to underscore just how second class PlayStation owners are compared to Gamepass owners

Bethesda might wanna dance with other companies.........but Microsoft aint playing games here you aquire game companies for 1 reason and Sony can kiss goodbye to Bethesda they belong to the Devil now.

Honestly I don’t mind this game of tug-o-war with Bethesda titles...I’ll play them where they play best, PC!

@TheFrenchiestFry
Killzone probably is the more likely of the two but I'd agree Shadow Fall was a letdown, especially after 2 and 3 which were both really good games. Guerrilla showed a lot of growth in all areas of game development with Horizon, however. After Forbidden West is finished maybe the core of that team could try its hand at Killzone.

I'll be gutted if Fallout 5 and Elder Scrolls 6 are Xbox exclusives. I'd probably have to buy one.

@TheFrenchiestFry I was mainly aiming at their two main hitters elder scrolls and fallout games as they are always buggy to hell

Is it me or does it seem like Bethesda hasn't been to fond of them being purchased by MS.

@Kanji-Tatsumi Seems like the general consensus by pretty much anyone who brings up this acquistion though. I can't go a few comments down without some guy bringing up "bUt tHeY mAdE fAlLOuT 76 sO xBoX cAn kEeP tHeM LoLz" anytime this site talks about this acquisition

So yes, when I say "Y'all" I mean "Y'ALL"

Ive never really understood why people like ES or Fallout but those aren't my kind of games so each to their own. Doom was fun but if it doesn't show up in the future its no real lost for me.

I think it’s just best to get a Xbox or PC if ya really need to play games made by Bethesda at this point. At least you know those games are pretty much guaranteed to show up on there.

The messages don't at all conflict but whatever I guess.

I’m probably in the minority who doesn’t care about any Bethesda games at all recently.

All I see is that they are apparently bug ridden and of low quality. id Software might be an exception, but I usually don’t feel like brainlessly running around ripping and tearing. I need a bit more meeting to games nowadays.

I liked wolfenstein a lot, but Youngblood was just bad IMO. I never managed to get warm with Fallout (I only tried Fallout 4 and 76 and got bored too quickly). I did enjoy Skyrim back in the day, but it wasn’t some kind of revelation to me. Just a plain good game.

Maybe my expectations are too high after playing countless of amazing PlayStation exclusives? Not sure, but I get the feeling Bethesda games are missing something essential.

I have both the XB1 and PS4, though I primarily play on the Xbox (I actually own four XB1’s for my family). If these games go to PS5, I’ll probably jump ship on Xbox. Why buy two consoles to play all the games, if I can just buy a PS5 an play all of the games. Yes, PS5 games are $70 at launch, but I have no problem waiting for the inevitable $20 price tag. I can buy a lot of games with the $500 I save.

In days gone by, you’d buy an XBox and a PS to access as many games as possible. This generation, both won’t fit in the same entertainment centre...

To be honest I'm getting fed up being blue balled with all this nonsense. Either be exclusive or don't, dancing round all the nerd rage is wearing. Who wants to play a Bethesda game day and date release anyway? Fallout 4 had bugs still 2 years after release and skyrim remastered had bugs still from the original 360/ps3 launch. Wake me up in 2022 when they have a game (and microsoft have a digital series x unit)

Bethesda have done a good job of making me less and less excited about their games, it will be a shame if they don’t come to PlayStation, but not the tragedy it once would have been.

I played the hell out of Skyrim on my 360 so will miss VI when it finally released in 2025 or perhaps later.

I ain't buying an Xbox or PC just to play one or two games, no siree.

How many articles are there going to be about this subject anyway? Until they release concrete news just ignore the situation. Concentrate on the games that we KNOW are coming to PlayStation.

I'll be more than happy for the Xbox players to beta test all the Bethesda jank for me.

@TheFrenchiestFry It's not about the games they made, it's about what they have done and overtime it's been building up. Todd Howard lying to our faces, games being filled to the brim with bugs, not to mention screwing up their own patches and bringing back bugs, adding in a subscription to a 60$ game, screwing up people's Fallout 76 collector's edition by giving them a bag that was supposed to be canvas material but made with cheap plastic, etc. Whatever is made by Bethesda I'm probably going to stay away from at launch.

Until Bethesda wake up and realize, "we haven't sold nearly as many copies of Elder Scrolls 6".
You could sell your company, but beware, you still have to make a profit or else that acquisition was a waste. I kind of hope Todd Howard goes home and cries to his partner "I shouldn't have succumbed to Microsoft"
Also if they do release on PS5 but remove things that can be, just to make Xbox look better then I will avoid it as well.

You are going to need both consoles this next generation to play everything you want to play.

@Digit2021 I’m sure Todd Howard would then go back home again and cry to his partner that you never bought his games 🙄

Bethesda games will be hugely popular on Game Pass for both Xbox and PC. It would then make sense to sell the game a year later on PS5.

The problem with even saying anything like that publicly is what happens if the same thing happens again to Microsoft happed to them last gen . The number of consoles sold are no where as high as they would have liked and the playstaion ends up being the dominant system again. How do you back track or prove that isn't the case because now you need to sell more games then you original thought but you've now openly admitted that the higher selling console is the one getting a lower quality version on your games. It will be interesting to see how this ultimately shakes out but my guess is Microsoft has a backup plan with game pass . I.wouldnt be surprised if we see gamepass on the playstation at some point down the road , and the way you get the "better" version of there games are through the purchase of game pass.

@Enuo @Kanji-Tatsumi @jmac1686
Found the damage controlling fanboys that find one bad game and apply it to all the 7 studios.

Look. with the before bethesda xbox studios and bethesda itself. You have to have an xbox. Unless you are a fanboy and don't care about wrpg, fps, best racing sim, then I get you.

@TheFrenchiestFry You are the only one that notices how fangirls these people on this site are.

If playstation outsells xbox as much as it did this gen I can't see them having the business option not to release on PS5.

@Jmck87 We will get a hint at January and in Jan 2021 we pretty much got the idea, with xbox having the possibility of shortening the gap with amazing games from iD, arkane and machine games plus ninja theory, playground, the initiative , obsidian and coalition (not you 343).

It depends on how mass appeal and how good those games will be.

Putting them only on gamepass and cutting out Nintendo and Sony, will cost Xbox TONS of money.

@LiterallyDoNotCare

Lol you got me. No coming back from that one </3

@Kanji-Tatsumi Should have changed my name to destroyer of fanboys

@TheFrenchiestFry the deal doesn't finalize before those games launch so it probably won't say xbox game studios......... Until the spring 2021 patches....

Depend on ps5 success, maybe new ip like starfield will have 1 year exclusive, but elder scrolls and fallout will only have exclusive dlc/skins or something and will launch on the sameday.

Best on XBox huh. Well that's nothing new, Skyrim was literally unplayable on PS3 at release and the DLCs were so late it was ridiculous...And don't even start me on Oblivion's horse armour, I'm not still bitter, who's bitter?

I've never been an XBox fan, but honestly this, plus Avowed, plus the fact they've always had Fable...I'm leaning that way this time. Never thought I'd say that, but there it is.

@LiterallyDoNotCare I don’t play FPS games or racing sims. Now take a seat sweetie. No one cares about your ranting and raving

@jmac1686 rant? I am making fun of people who say they don't care about Bethesda. That's a comment from a fanboy and not a gamer.

Also. Do you have 2 accounts? there's a jmack8

"No intentions of pulling all Bethesda content" - well of course not as that'd be financially stupid. If the PS5 outsells the Xbox by even similar margins of PS4 to XBone then Microsoft will need to recoup some of the money. Plus, if the Elder Scrolls franchise has a massive Japanese following, people in Japan still won't buy an Xbox.

Release first on Xbox? Probably, but that's nice of them to find and fix the immense amount of bugs before it hits the PS5.

@tatsumi

Well Skyrim has sold over 30 million units I think, so of course lots of people enjoy their games.

They also have Dishonored, Prey, Evil Within (which I personally love) etc. Plus I don't know how it'll work, but what about potential sequels to Deathloop and Ghostwire?

It's difficult to picture games the size and cost of elder scrolls and fallout being funded primarily by a subscription service, especially considering how many other companies Microsoft have taken on lately. Every new acquisition is a lot of new salaries to pay.

The games they and their child companies produce are best played on PC anyway, not a big loss in my opinion.

@Otherbarry that's what I'm thinking too, I love my ps5 and loved the ps4. I dont choose sony over Microsoft I chose the controller I preferred and the playstation controller for me is my favorite so having game pass on my ps5 would be the dream

@Mikey856 Sony probably wouldnt do it as it wouldn't really benefit them but I was just saying how awesome it would be if it was available.

Even with bethesda as an exclusive for xbox sony still has the better exclusives by far over them, I just want a fallout 3 remastered as it is my favorite game and I want to play it on ps5, as I stated I prefer the sony controller.

I'm reading this news as 'We still want to take your money (we can't afford not to) but you WILL be punished for not buying our console... and you need to fund our over-commited Game pass for those who did...(which we'll have to change, or charge a lot more for now)

I find it funny People act like Bethesda was the bread and butter of PlayStation, when they are not even close. MS needed Help pure and simple to add to their growing GamePass. And Judging by this Article it seems they don't want to part from PlayStation so easily. To add to this Sony isn't worried, if they was worried they would have been aiming to buy a new Studio but they are not going to throw money at just anyone. They already have some of the best Studios that actually out shine anything Bethesda has. I have both Doom Games that is all I really purchased. I have an odd feeling something will happen to throw a few Bethesda Games in Sony's Direction but at a cost. But will Sony want a Xbox Game on their Console? If it don't happen and I want a game I see, If I like it, will buy it for PC anyways.