Bethesda’s space opera Starfield, famously cancelled on the PS5 after Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar acquisition of the publisher, could still release on Sony’s console in the future.
Speaking with reporter Destin Legarie, Xbox bigwig Phil Spencer was asked if the intergalactic RPG would be “staying put for the time being”.
“No,” Spencer said, after a dramatic moment’s deliberation.
“There is no reason for me to put a ring fence around any game and say this game will not go to a place that it would find players, where it would have business success for us,” he continued.
“What we find is we're able to drive a better business that allows us to invest in great game line-up like you saw [during the Developer Direct].
“Our strategy is to allow our games to be available. But to keep games off other platforms […] that’s not a path for us. It doesn’t work for us.”