Bethesda’s ‘Starfield’ Will Reportedly Be An Xbox Console Exclusive, Leaving PlayStation Behind

The next generation of the console wars is actually shaping up when it comes to Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 exclusives, and this week, PlayStation fans got bad news when it came to a major Bethesda release on the horizon. While games like Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo will be a PS5 exclusive on consoles, Bethesda’s acquisition by Microsoft was bound to create Xbox exclusives and the first of those appears to be sci-fi epic Starfield.

According to reports, Starfield will be an Xbox exclusive, the first major move we’ve seen from games in development that align with Microsoft’s console over Sony’s latest hardware.

We’ll likely hear much more about Starfield at the upcoming E3 later this summer, but it’s the first of what seems an inevitable slide of major Bethesda projects landing on Microsoft’s console (not to mention Microsoft-powered PCs) following the more than $7 billion acquisition of the company. Months into the PS5 and Xbox Series X era, we still haven’t seen many console exclusives shape the landscape for a variety of reasons. Games expected to be console launch titles saw delays, and the pandemic pushed things back further as making games became more difficult than ever.

Starfield, for example, was first announced in June 2018. And so far, we still have little more than a teaser trailer for the game and a GIF of its logo.

The news caused a lot of speculation about Sony’s console exclusives on the horizon and the endless battle between fans of either Microsoft of Sony’s consoles. Meanwhile, PC gamers simply watch the fight from the sidelines.

While nothing is official just yet, it all does raise the stakes a bit for E3 and Microsoft’s presentation there. Where hopefully, we learn more about when we’ll actually see some Series X/S exclusives actually reach consoles in the coming months.

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