Xbox feared that Starfield would be exclusive to PS5, so they bought Bethesda

Microsoft is currently immersed in an intense trial against the Federal Trade Commission, better known as the FTC. There have been two days of the trial, and there will be several more this week, starting tomorrow, in which Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond, and other company executives will try to defend themselves and ensure that the nearly $70 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard can go through.

A gigantic operation that Sony interprets as an attempt to eliminate PlayStation from the market, although it seems that Microsoft thinks something similar of the Japanese company, since it was Phil Spencer who confessed to the judge that if a few years ago they decided to buy Bethesda for 7.5 billion dollars, it was only because they had heard that Starfield could be exclusive to PS5, through agreements similar to those of Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo.

Microsoft sees Sony as an “aggressive” competitor

The theory that Starfield could have been exclusive to PS5 is not the only suspicion - or rather an accusation - that Microsoft has poured on Sony, since the same company claims that when they launch their own video game on PS4 and PS5, the Japanese use the 30% of the profit that corresponds to them to “reduce Xbox’s survival on the market.” An accusation in which Phil Spencer slips that PlayStation is an unfair competitor.

Starfield will finally be exclusive to Xbox on consoles, coming to Xbox X Series X|S, PC, and Xbox Game Pass on launch day, September 6, 2023. It is one of the most anticipated games of the year thanks to its attractive premise of blasting off to explore space, as we will have up to 1,000 planets to land on in search of resources. Bethesda has confirmed that it aims to have at least 10% of them harbor life.

Source | Phil Spencer (Xbox); vía Shinobi602