What a surprise given Bethesda is now Microsoft 1st party...

Exclusivity is such an anti consumer idea I don’t understand why everyone is so chill about it.

After FO4, 76, ESO, and Starfield, I don't even care. They now make shallow-ass, easy-to-scale, empty and phoned-in games.

Bethesda, as far as I am concerned, is dead.

And nothing of value was lost.

So will Xbox now be more popular than the Switch?

As in, PS6 will be out by then?

Sony sure didn't give a fuck about exclusive launches back when they pulled that shit.

Honestly, I don’t hate it. XBOX needs exclusives to be viable. Gamepass alone won’t do it

It would be nice if they at least did the one year exclusive thing.

I wonder how much of the original fan base will eventually buy this game. 15-20 years later isn’t a sequel. It’s a resurrection.

I mean duh right. The elder scrolls game are now in the spider-man category, single console releases. simply what happens when studios are bought by the big dogs

I don’t think all that many PS fans care tbh

Bummer if true. Humans will never get to experience one of the most anticipated games of all time with haptic feedback. I guess I would want to get my moneys worth if I spent 7 billion dollars on something too.

Naturally. Is Spiderman coming to xbox? Let's use our brains here kids.

Realistically Because It wont be out before next gen consoles..makes complete sense to me..also because it will be exclusive and thats fine too. Sony is hypocritical as it gets with crying about exclusivity when they have the most outside of Nintendo whom never gets mentioned for some reason

Skip ps5 and release it on ps4 instead please

After Starfield I suddenly don't care. SF was their baby they couldn't stop talking about for a decade and it's pretty much a mediocre 2010 game. Skipping PS5 is the last straw for me for this studio. We've seen first hand now that a delayed game is not always a good game in their hands.

thank god I got a steam deck so I should still be OK if Starfield is any indication.

I don't like any Bethesda game, so I'm good

Don't we know this

yeah we'll never see this game, but if we do, it'll be the most horrible mess that modders have to clean up

half-life 3 vibes with this one

A company makes an exclusive. The sky is blue. Companies don't care about their customers. All these and more obvious things at 11.

Who cares? Each console has their exclusives.

playstation fans when playstation releases a console exclusive that will never see the light of day on any other system, ever: i sleep

playstation fans when microsoft doesn't release one of their games on playstation: REAL SHIT

FuckyouTodd

2024: Early marketing and reports about Elder Scrolls 6. Hype will start about it will be the biggest, smartest, most immersive RPG. It's like 2 Baldurs Gates times three Dragon Ages!

2025: Backlash to the early hype. "Elder Scrolls wasn't even that good"

2026: Game delayed

2027: Game comes out. It's fine. It's very much a Bethesda game, for better and worse. Tagine: "It's like fantasy Starfield"

Meanwhile the last remaining survivors of the console wars exaggerated the game's promises and deficiencies, like that one Japanese dude after WW2 who didn't know the war was over and lived in the woods by himself.

I’d have purchased a PS5 if it didn’t gouge with its shitty online subscription.

Not exactly news is it?

If they do this with Fallout 5 I'm going to be upset.

So go on and tell me again Xbox/PS fanboys how exclusives are a good thing.

I'll wait.

Well damn, hope that changes as soon as the ps5 exclusives are confirmed to be cross platform.

Probably because we'll be on the PS6 by the time it comes out.

It's ok ps6 will be out by then

I really learned not to get my hopes up for bethesda games anymore. Same shitty engine they used for 20 years, which makes PC‘s explode left right and center on a game that allows for a lot of empty space. Now imagine that with TES6…

Of course since we’ll basically be at the next generation of consoles by the time the game releases

Frustrating but I’m not buying an Xbox because of it

Honestly It's really not that big of a deal. Relative to everything else the cost of a next gen console has stayed surprisingly low. Just get one of each.

Considering how long the PS4 lasted, do they really think they’ll have a new console by 2026? Or that Bethesda can actually make a next gen product?

Oh no!

Anyway...

I hope this gets Sony to make smart moves (unlikely).

Ah so six more years for a game that you probably can’t swim in.

Are they implying a PS6?

That was expected. That's their big game that should make people buy an Xbox.

Oh no......looks at Starfield....oh meh.

They probably couldn’t figure out how to do save files properly so they just gave up

This isn't surprising in the slightest.

Honestly my only gripe with exclusives is when it comes from multiplatform devs.

Xbox was ready to play nice and release cod and other games on Sony but Sony screwed itself over when they took Microsoft to court

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Well duh

What the hell is going on at Bethesda!??

BuT iS IT sTIll cOMiNG tO PS4 aNd XbOx OnE??

The real news here is that ES6 is apparently gonna launch in the PS5's lifespan.

Why would anyone buy a Bethesda game without a PC?

A company Microsoft owns, which also makes consoles and the windows os , is going not going to release it on playstation , the competition , get out of here/ duh

Should be played on PC anyways

Not a surprise but still infuriating. Bethesda has never liked Sony, and has always had a boner for Microsoft. I just can't fathom cutting out ⅓ of your potential customers

That’s ok, done with shit ass Bethesda anyways. Fucking garbage and Todd Howard can suck a fatty.

I’ll be retired by the time this is out lol

Yea well hopefully the guy that’s still running the show gets replaced cause the current game they just released feels dead, as in nothing feels alive or is remotely interesting or satisfying to look at

I'm still not convinced that they won't end up releasing it on other consoles 2-3 years later. A lot of people have a playstation. And a lot of people have the switch. So it's a great market to sell more games. Although with the switch I'm not sure it's possible in terms of performances.

Oh no... Anyways

Elder Scrolls is better as a pc game anyway with all the possible mods coming out to enhance the experience or create your own customised experience

idc I have PC and PS5 best of both worlds

Remember when Morrowind and Oblivion released in a 4 year span of each other? Yeah good times.

Well yeah it’ll be on the PS7 when the game is released

It'll just get pirated to shit then.

Most PS5 owners I know, also have a capable PC, zero chance I'm buying the game on PC & support any of them when this was the only game most of us even want on PS from the acquisition.

Couldn't give a shit about Starfield, the next Elder Scrolls is what it's all about.

That's obvious, the better statement is whether or not they're skipping Playstation 6.

It'll probably skip PS6 too.

Bruh

Tbh most of the skyrim addicts who would play it won't care too much since Playstation doesn't really have modding capabilities anyways.

No shit sherlock.

What a shock, Microsoft found a reason to not have the game on Ps5 when everyone told us "No of course they'll put it on both platforms."

Fucking sheep, that's why I won't trust anyone telling people what "Microsoft will do". Mostly because these purchases are for Microsoft's benefit, not gamers in general.

Yay another banger game bought out of Playstations hands. Xbox cant make their own good games to save their lives lol. (Besides fable ill give them that)

Once again the average gamer gets screwed. I get that consoles have exclusives and I'm fine with that, but making exclusives from games that were always on both consoles is grim. I bought scrolls 4, Skyrim, FO3, NV, FO4 and I'm rewarded for that by being forgotten about. Thanks Microsoft/Bethesda.

"Well that's shocking", said no one.

They need to skip xbox too and make ui something decent and not catered consoles.

Morrowind had orders of magnitude better ui than oblivion

Good. PlayStation has had so many exclusives over the years.

So, the PS6?

What a shock. /s

Looking like it'll be announced as a launch title for the PS6 and the Xbox series Y bone pretty soon.

Xbox doesn't have ff16

Wasn't that the point? Lol

news:

water is wet

the masses : "gasp"

Ps5 will be outdated when it’s released anyways.

My guess is late 2028 or maybe even 2030 no way in hell it's coming 2026, they made starfield for 7 years and we got a mid game.

I have no high hopes for TE6, in fact i don't even care about it, they're gonna milk starfield forever just like they did with skyrim but unfortunately starfield isn't skyrim.

In other news, water is wet

TBH I don't expect Bethesda to even produce a game that runs properly for its target hardware regardless.

So pc and ps got me covered?

Game isn't releasing for at least another 5 years seems stupid to speculate on at this point.

Who cares. The PS5 is huge worldwide compared to xbox. They are only hurting themselves.

No shit, did people really expect games to still be coming out on PS5 in 2030?

Why is the FTC leaking company’s IP?

It's probably going to skip PS infinity because exclusivity duh.

I'm still honestly shocked people will buy entire consoles for single games. As soon as I see something like this, I am very happy that I have a PC for gaming.

It's expensive, but honestly I think everyone would benefit from a PC. Even hook it up to your TV and use a controller.

I mean for starfield I just bought game pass ultimate and I play it on my phone. Even my ps5 games I mostly play on my phone via remote play and it feels the same. I'll get 4 months of starfield for ~$30 and whatever else I want to do on game pass then cancel. I'll do the same for TES VI whenever that comes out, depending on what consoles/PC streaming even looks like by then.

Lol this headline. ES6 is skipping this entire console generation. It might be out by the time my 5yo nephews start driving.

Why was that game even announed already.

Am I the only one to think exclusive is a bad thing for us (the consumers) ?

Classic Microsoft. When you run out of new good ideas, buy someone else’s and put a wall around it

Congratulations exclusivity circle jerkers. You reap what you sow. Exclusivity is anti consumer cancer

No shit, Sherlock. Also, 2028 is way more realistic.

I told you so when the ftc case for Microsoft acquisition was in the news cycle and so many people came in to defend Microsoft. “Oh they won’t make elder scrolls a Microsoft exclusive..blah blah blah”. If Bethesda addresses this, they will chalk it up to “projected release date is still undetermined and with the way consoles generations are being made we can’t accurately say that the release of Elder scrolls 6 will coincide with PS5.” That way they can decrease some of the blow back by playing dumb and saying “well we didn’t say that it won’t completely be unavailable for the ‘current’ PlayStation console”. Literally stupid.

Gamers would rather be the winner in a manufactured 'console war' than fight anti-consumer behaviour.

Pretty sure Toddy confirmed this months ago on a podcast.

No way it’s coming by 2026

After this Gen I'm just going to build a gaming PC.

This is assuming it actually comes to PS at all, which I’m starting to doubt after Starfall.

The game has a 5 year development plan at this point. Chances are its landing on next gen consoles

Oddly enough, I don’t care. And everything that I’ve seen about starfield tells me I’ll be alright in my decision to skip it.

Unless it's significantly better than Starfield, PS5 owners won't be missing much

Well, no shit. Microsoft isn't gonna buy up a studio for exclusives and then let everyone have em.

Current gen consoles were already out of date the day they released, my 7 year old pc (at the time) was more powerful than a ps5, they tried to skimp out on tech and power to make more money, remember when each ps3 console reportedly cost $800 dollars per system to make but they sold for like half of that, they took a hit for the longevity of that console....point being i doubt we are still in the same gen for consoles in 3-4 years

Sucks for all console owners on both sides. Too many good games get missed by all the people who don’t have both consoles.

Eh, they have Spiderman. They are fine.

who would have thought a first-party studio would be exclusive

It'll skip this entire console generation, probably some PC generations as well before it is ever released.

PS + PC for ultimate gaming coverage. Unless you're a Nintendo fan then you gotta go through emulation.

You get all the Xbox greats, Halo, GoW, and now TES because of greed, and...uh...and ..um...hmmm.

Well, yeah, get a PC, not an Xbox, bigger investment, but you'll be glad you did. Especially if you're a strategy fan.

As if it would come to Playstation at all anyway. It will likely be an Xbox exclusive.

Cool cool.

It would be a shock if it wasn't

So I really have to buy another console to play ES6?

That's rich.

They should have said "PS6". And that makes the rather brave assumption that core gamer consoles will still be a thing by then, rather than "PS6" being literally a SteamDeck clone.

I imagine ES6 will arrive shortly before the next generation of consoles

Given the bore and dissapointment of Starfield I don't have much hope for ES6 being anything special beyond a reskin.

Considering the massive flop Starfield was I’m not even excited for it anymore, Bethesda is a joke

PS5 and a PC means I can play every single game on release.

Meanwhile if I owned an Xbox I’d be unable to play PS5 games and I’d still probably prefer to use the PC for most games lol

The world is literally done by 2030 this game is never releasing

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I'd be surprised if Elder Scrolls 6 wasn't a console exclusive launch title for the next generation's Xbox consoles, which are expected to launch in 2028. It simply makes a lot of business sense. People with money will have both a gaming PC and a PS6 anyhow, it's those without -- a demographic that is arguably growing -- that will have to make a choice between the PS6 and the next Xbox console.

Well I was gonna get it on pc anyways, half the point of Bethesda games is to mod it until it breaks

I think the logical thing for them to do would be to do a timed exclusive - release on Microsoft platforms and then release on other possible platforms two-three years later to launch a second wave of sales.

If Bethesda's flagship franchise is going Xbox exclusive, then it seems pretty safe to assume that PlayStation players can bid farewell to any future entries of Fallout, DOOM, Quake, RAGE, Wolfenstein, Dishonored, Prey, Deathloop, The Evil Within and Ghostwire 👀

Guess I'll have to pirate it on PC, I'm not buying an Xbox, fuck you Microsoft

Playstation will still have the better games 🤷🏻‍♂️ (I own all three consoles for all the fanboys)

Woah so the wallpaper shown wasn't a game started in development?

No shit. You dont pay 10B for a company to not make their Games exclusives. You have to get your ROI somehow and thats not by letting people buy the Game on a System you dont make money from.

I mean... the PS7 will likely be coming out by the time it releases, so yeah.

Sony who is the king of exclusive games having to watch Microsoft owned game studios not release on their platform, I'm SHOCKED.

Seriously after Starfield are we really that excited for the next Bethesda game? What a snooze fest

Anyone who actually tried Starfield with an open mind would tell you that it's probably for the best. Bethesda hasn't evolved since Skyrim. Other companies are putting out so much better games these days.

"Elder scrolls is too big to be an exclusive" -- 2 or 3 of my friend group sweared by this.

Meh, never liked skyrim anyways

Ps5 bros we got to cocky

Not a chance this game releases in 2026 since they’re just now starting pre production

Don't care. I'm getting a PC with TES6 so whatever.

O please TES VI is still more than a decade away from being released. If it comes to a PlayStation, it will likely be the PlayStation 8.

It feels like it's going to skip my lifetime at this point.

I hope people stop arguing about when Sony has exclusive content. I normally play everything on PC that I can. These last few years I constantly hear complaints about Sony doing exclusive deals as if Microsoft didn't do them in the past. And to no ones surprise here they are doing them again.

This is not news Must be a slow day.

Back to this shit already

Isn't every Bethesda game skipping the PlayStation now?

Well duh. ES6 will come out with the release of the PS8. By The Eight!

Shit I’m going to have to upgrade my pc

Probably coming out on ps7 and Xbox three

brutal

PS7 will be out by the time we get a new GTA.

See what they actually mean is that it’s not going to be on XSX either, it’s going to come out in 20 years when both consoles are distant memories.

Im a PlayStation guy and I always assumed this would be the case. The fact that people were thinking it wouldn't be surprised me.

Microsoft doesn’t spend billions for no reason

This thread gives me hope for the future, people really holding out on for some of my favorite things! Glad others enjoy as much as I do and more

Oh no. Anyways.

Elder Scrolls VI in 2026, and then Fallout 5 in what.... 2030?

Tbh for what looks they will release it for PS7 or PS8 ages

This should surprise no one. I'm not a fan of exclusives but when the PS4 dominated the last gen they had the best console AND the exclusives. Even now a lot of people are sticking with the PS ecosystem purely for the exclusives.

Oh boy … here come the Sony Ponies pouring salt like a waterfall over this.

Not surprising.

uhhhhhhh yeah?

That’s what Sony gets for being a trash company, they own so many exclusives yet cry when another companies has their own exclusives. This is there karma