Phil Spencer aparentemente tomou uma “grande decisão” de tornar todos os jogos ZeniMax exclusive to Xbox at a meeting in November 2021. This revelation came to light as part of the final day of testimony at the hearing of the Microsoft to FTC this week.
During the time of the CFO of Xbox, Tim Stuartin the witness box, the FTC drew attention to a chat conversation from November 2021 between Stuart e Matt Booty, of Xbox.
The two were talking about a recent monthly business analysis meeting between Xbox e ZeniMaxwhere Spencer apparently made the connection to make all the games ZeniMax exclusive from now on, not just new IP. Stuart was asking Booty about what happened during the meeting.
“Todos os jogos daqui para frente?” perguntou Stuart. “Não apenas IP novo, mas TODOS os jogos daqui para frente? Nossa”.
All ZeniMax games to become Xbox exclusives
Booty confirmed this during the chat conversation by writing: “Phil [Spencer] disse a eles todos os títulos daqui para frente, exclusivos do Xbox”.
The two discussed how to remove all the titles from the Bethesda of PlayStation would cause profit problems in the business model of the Microsoft and ZeniMax. “Teremos problemas [de margem de prestação de contas] no modelo de acordo à medida que retiramos um grande número de unidades do PS do modelo”, observou Stuart.
This means that the projected profits of Xbox and ZeniMax after the acquisition took into account the launch of some Bethesda in PlayStationbefore that decision came from Spencer.
When Phil Spencer witnessed last week, this is the meeting that the leader of the Xbox said he couldn't remember the details.
Understand why this decision is scary (and good for Xbox fans)
For those who don't know how the studio division of Bethesda, a ZeniMax Media is the parent company of all the studios. So studios like Bethesda Softworks, Arkane, Tango Gameworks and all the others, are good for ZeniMax Media.
However, in addition to ZeniMax Media, there is also ZeniMax Online Studios. A ZeniMax Online Studios is the developer of the acclaimed MMORPG Elder Scrolls Online (No, it's not Fallout 76, as many people think).
So the scariest part of this is that there have been rumors for at least a year that the ZeniMax Online Studios would be developing an MMORPG in the universe of Star Warsmore specifically, Mandalorian.
Although rumors indicate that it will be a multiplatform game. With this decision to Phil Spencer, o Xbox could not only receive an exclusive Indiana Jonesalso have a game of Mandalorian.
