Is Sony Really Jealous of Starfield’s Xbox Exclusive? We finally have the answer thanks to the testimony of this well-known personality of the company.
If you’ve never heard of Starfield, you almost deserve to be congratulated for this achievement as Bethesda’s game has been talked about for ages. In this month of June, the title is more than ever in the spotlight since its presentation at Summer Game Fest 2023. The public has finally been able to discover Microsoft exclusivity in depth and is only waiting for one thing: the 6 September, release date of the title on Xbox and PC. As a matter of fact, Starfield did so much during the event that PS5 players decided to start a petition to make the game … a Sony exclusive. A rather absurd option and which obviously has no chance of succeeding, but which raises a question: is Sony frustrated at not being able to offer Starfield to his players?
Sony jealous of Starfield? Jim Ryan responds
New interesting statement during the hearing between Microsoft and the FTC in the context of the takeover of Activision Blizzard by the Redmond firm. On June 27, Jim Ryan, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, was heard in federal court in California. The emblematic figure of the brand had to express his thoughts on the exclusivity of recent Bethesda games, starting with red fall (developed by Arkane Austin and published by Bethesda). The Sony boss explains that he doesn’t like it, but that it doesn’t pose a fundamental problem for him. Same thing for the much more sensitive case of Starfield. ” I don’t like it, but I don’t see it as anti-competitive “, he confides.
We feel all the same that Jim Ryan would not have said no to a release of Starfield on PS5 and we can understand it. But he does not forget to add that there is nothing anti-competitive about his exclusivity, a rather logical positioning, because to answer otherwise would put his own company’s strategy at odds, given the large number of exclusives offered on PlayStation consoles. Especially since Jim Ryan hoped to make Starfield a PS5 exclusive, as was the case with two other titles published by Bethesda published only on Sony consoles, namely death loop And Ghostwire: Tokyo. The takeover of ZeniMax by Microsoft in 2020, however, changed everything.
A mouth-watering game for Xbox… and PlayStation gamers
Next fall, Starfield will be available only on Xbox and PC and we really should not expect the title to end up arriving on PlayStation, even in a second time. Given that what this space adventure promises us in the year 2330, we understand the frustration of PS5 owners at not being able to enjoy it. A few days ago, Todd Howard gave some tantalizing new details regarding the Microsoft exclusive. The director of the game confided in particular that romances would be good in the game and that the jet-pack will allow you to move very quickly. See you on September 6 on Xbox Series and PC to finally find out what this title awaited like the messiah has in the belly.