Speaking during an interview with Xbox On, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer has said that he never indicated that Starfield would come to PlayStation formats, noting titles following the Bethesda acquisition would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
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The Xbox head honcho was asked about if a similar situation to Starfield will happen with Call of Duty, in which the Bethesda space RPG was reportedly not positioned as an Xbox-exclusive before switching.
I don’t think I ever said Starfield was not going to be exclusive to Xbox. I think what I said was we’re going to take it on a case-by-case basis, I said we’re not going to pull games that are on other platforms, so we’ll continue to support the community of games.
Spencer also said in the interview that there’s “no example in Bethesda of us pulling something away from the PlayStation community that they had.”
Starfield is currently scheduled for release on PC and Xbox consoles in 2023.