A Microsoft spokesperson has told Eurogamer that the Xbox format holder has not pulled any games from PlayStation following reports earlier this week that Redfall was originally planned for the PS5 prior to Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media.
We haven’t pulled any games from PlayStation. In fact, we’ve expanded our footprint of games that we’ve shipped on Sony’s PlayStation since our acquisition of ZeniMax, and the first two games we shipped after closing were PlayStation 5 exclusives. We did the same thing since our closing of Minecraft as we extended the reach of that franchise.
All of the games that were available on PlayStation when we acquired ZeniMax in March 2021 are still available on PlayStation, and we have continued to do content updates on PlayStation and PC. We have always said that future decisions on whether to distribute ZeniMax games for other consoles will be made on a case-by-case basis.
On the subject of Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft has told the CMA that it believes ten years is sufficient for Sony to work on a rival to Call of Duty. It also claims that EA, not Activision, is PlayStation’s biggest third-party publisher.
[Source – Eurogamer]