r/videogames • u/Seraphayel • 11h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Microsoft is gauging interest in Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Minecraft becoming Xbox exclusives — yes, really

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-is-considering-making-fallout-the-elder-scrolls-and-even-minecraft-xbox-console-exclusive-surveys-detailed
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u/SmittieSmitt 8h ago

Minecraft shouldn't be exclusive IMO, but ES6, Fallout 5 and every single player AAA bangers? Yeah.

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u/MouseNcactus 4h ago

The main reason for Bethesda games' popularity is mod support. As console exclusives, they wouldn't be able to achieve similar sales.

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u/Single-Advantage-147 2h ago

Xbox “exclusives” are always on PC as well. Like gears of war e day and the upcoming clockwork revolution. They just wouldn’t be on ps5.

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u/Warcrown11 1h ago

I could totally see them making a stupid decision and putting it solely on the Xbox store and not Steam though. To this day the Xbox versions, to my knowledge, still don't support script extenders which ffectively cripples the modding scene just as badly as a console would