Earlier this week, Howard told The Telegraph that he felt making Starfield exclusive to Xbox (and by extension, PC) was in the game's best interest. That said, Howard was unapologetic about Starfield's Xbox exclusivity. Everyone, including Howard and the rest of Bethesda, just assumed the games would launch on both platforms, but that was well before the Microsoft/Zenimax merger. When Bethesda announced Starfield and TESVI during E3 2018, Todd Howard did an excellent job of exciting PlayStation and Xbox fans alike without saying too much of substance. "All I can really say is, 'I apologize,' because I'm certain that that's frustrating to folks, but there's not a whole lot I can do about it." "I don't know how to allay the concerns of PlayStation 5 fans other than to say, well, I'm a PlayStation 5 player as well, and I've played games on that console, and there's games I'm gonna continue to play on it," Hines said. In a post E3 interview with GameSpot, Bethesda's Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Communications Pete Hines apologized to PlayStation 5 owners for the studio's move away from its historically platform-agnostic development. However, not all of Bethesda's heads feel the same about Starfield being exclusive to Xbox. Since purchasing Zenimax for $7.5 billion last September, we knew Microsoft would grab anything that Bethesda had not already nailed down in an exclusivity deal, including Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI. Starfield's Xbox exclusivity is not much of a surprise. However, the real news was the confirmation that Starfield will be an Xbox exclusive and the conflicting feelings surrounding that deal. It was a cinematic affair without any actual gameplay footage, but the video was created using the game's alpha build. In brief: Starfield got a new teaser trailer during Bethesda's E3 press event.
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