{"id":225710,"date":"2025-01-28T01:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/xbox-chief-phil-spencer-suggests-starfield-could-release-on-rival-consoles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T01:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:27:25","slug":"xbox-chief-phil-spencer-suggests-starfield-could-release-on-rival-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/xbox-chief-phil-spencer-suggests-starfield-could-release-on-rival-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Chief Phil Spencer Suggests Starfield Could Release on Rival Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft<\/a> has pivoted to releasing its first party games on rival consoles from Sony and Nintendo over the past year and intends to continue with its multiplatform launch strategy. The company has sought to de-emphasise<\/a> its gaming hardware \u2014 the Xbox<\/a> console \u2014 and instead focussed on pushing its titles to as many platforms as possible. Xbox chief Phil Spencer<\/a> had said in November that more first-party games would be launched on PS5 and Nintendo Switch, with \u201cno red lines\u201d in the company’s portfolio. In a recent interview, the Microsoft executive doubled down on that claim and suggested Starfield could break Xbox console exclusivity at some point.<\/p>\n

Phil Spencer on Starfield’s Xbox Exclusivity<\/h2>\n

In a conversation with independent games journalist Destin Legarie published over the weekend, Spencer refused to rule out the possibility of Starfield<\/a> releasing on rival platforms like the PS5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Spencer responded when asked if he could confirm that Starfield would stay put on Xbox consoles for the time being. \u201cthere’s no specific game that I would \u2014 this kind of goes back to my \u2018red line’ answer \u2014 like there’s no reason for me to put a ring fence around any game and say \u2018this game will not go to a place where it will find players, where it will have business success for us’.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we find is we’re able to drive a better business that allows us to invest in great game lineup like you saw (at Xbox Developer Direct). And that’s our strategy. Our strategy is to allow our games to be available.<\/p>\n

“Game Pass is an important component of playing the games on our platform. But to keep games off of other platforms, that’s not a path for us. It doesn’t work for us what we’re doing now,\u201d Spencer said in the interview snippet posted on X Sunday by Legarie.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft Gaming CEO was referring to his response to Bloomberg from November, when he said<\/a> he wouldn’t rule out any games from Microsoft’s stable from making the jump to PlayStation<\/a> or Nintendo<\/a> consoles. \u201cI do not see sort of red lines in our portfolio that say, \u2018thou must not,’\u201d he had said at the time.<\/p>\n

Starfield, Bethesda’s<\/a> space RPG that released on Xbox Series S\/X and PC in September 2023, has been speculated<\/a> to arrive on PS5 since early 2024 when Microsoft first announced<\/a> it would release some of its exclusive games on rival platforms. The game is currently available on current-gen Xbox consoles, PC and Game Pass<\/a>, but has not yet been released on PS5.<\/p>\n

For comparison, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle<\/a>, published by Bethesda and developed by MachineGames, released on Xbox Series<\/a> S\/X and PC in December, but has been confirmed<\/a> for launch on PS5 in the first half of 2025. Doom: The Dark Ages<\/a>, another title from Bethesda’s stable, is set to release simultaneously on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S\/X on May 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Microsoft has pivoted to releasing its first party games on rival consoles from Sony and Nintendo over the past year and intends to continue with its multiplatform launch strategy. The company has sought to de-emphasise its gaming hardware \u2014 the Xbox console \u2014 and instead focussed on pushing its titles to as many platforms as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/phil_spencer_xbox_1724335245444.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[37624,302,35474,1099,22258,13944,97307,13312,191,1292,12730,53276,126753,3433,23116,177216],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225712,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225710\/revisions\/225712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}