Microsoft says “We haven’t pulled any video games from PlayStation” following Redfall PS5 information
Yesterday we reported on a narrative that Redfall was initially meant for a PlayStation 5 launch till Microsoft pulled the plug following its Zenimax (Bethesda’s mother or father firm) acquisition. The information got here by way of Arkane Studios director Harvey Smith, who made the revelation in an interview with IGN France, saying,
We obtained purchased by Microsoft and that was an enormous sea change. They mentioned, ‘No PlayStation 5. Now we’re gonna do Recreation Cross, Xbox and PC.
Now Microsoft has issued a response to this information, which unsurprisingly brought on one thing of a stir on-line. In an announcement to Eurogamer a Microsoft spokesperson mentioned,
We haven’t pulled any video games from PlayStation. In truth, we’ve expanded our footprint of video games that we’ve shipped on Sony’s PlayStation since our acquisition of ZeniMax, and the primary two video games we shipped after closing had been PlayStation 5 exclusives. We did the identical factor since our closing of Minecraft as we prolonged the attain of that franchise.
Microsoft’s assertion that they haven’t pulled any video games from PlayStation is technically true (there is no such thing as a indication whether or not a PS5 Redfall was ever in lively growth—therefor MS couldn’t have “pulled” it, per se). Nonetheless, the assertion appears considerably evasive in {that a} PS5 model of Redfall was initially deliberate in any case.
Little doubt Microsoft is raring to quell any hypothesis the Redfall PS5 information may deliver to its efforts to safe regulatory approval for its pending $68 billion Activision Blizzard King buy. In its statements to Eurogamer Microsoft additionally identified that Bethesda has continued to do content material updates for his or her video games on PS5, comparable to Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo.
As for Redfall, the open-world shooter will launch on Could 2nd for Xbox One, Xbox Collection X|S and PC. It is going to be obtainable day one on Xbox Recreation Cross.
