Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. There are some workarounds but many won’t be able to employ them, and Microsoft wants this to become the norm, not an exception, as they try to keep pace on the first party front.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. PlayStation players can pretend otherwise, but if Starfield comes out and is as big as a Fallout or Elder Scrolls release, it is going to be a huge pain point not to have access to it on their console of choice. Your “additional places to play” there are PC and the cloud, not PlayStation. ![]() But Starfield? Elder Scrolls VI eventually? Absolutely not. And they only do not want that when it means things like promising they won’t take away Call of Duty from Playstation so their Activision deal can go through. They very much do want a roster of Xbox exclusive games to rival PlayStation’s well-received, big-selling exclusives. Despite all its talk about opening gaming up to more players, that’s almost always just about their cloud gaming ambitions which can be run on a lot of devices. Xbox Games Showcase 2023 and Starfield Direct Double Feature: Every Announcement and Reveal by Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief 11:51am For the first time ever, today saw not just one, but two enormous showcases from Xbox and Bethesda, revealing a line-up of our most ambitious games ever. This is, of course, what Microsoft wants. Then of course there are cloud-based purchases but that tech is still…a bit unproven. And so the point stands with a lot of PS-only players being left out. A portion do, I’m sure, but a small portion. And yet I do not think we can operate under the assumption that PS4/5 owners all also have the kind of gaming PCs needed to run Starfield effectively. That certainly is a way for PlayStation players to get their hands on the game in a way that Xbox players cannot grab God of War or Ghost of Tsushima at launch (months, years later, maybe). This is the main difference, of course, that Microsoft exclusives are not Xbox exclusives in the traditional sense, as they also come to PC. Starfield will not put up that level of sales numbers because it’s being offered day one on Xbox Game Pass, though it’s already topping the Steam charts via pre-sale there. Fallout 4 sold 12 million copies in 24 hours back in 2015. The collector’s edition of Starfield is called the Constellation Edition.It's like imagining Skyrim, which has sold 60 million copies in 12 years, not coming to PlayStation.
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