Fallout 4 rumored to be Xbox One exclusive

[Chris Tian]

As far as I'm aware, a good chunk of Bethesdas fanbase is on PC, because of the absolutly awesome modding community.

Bethesda is an American company, therefore they only see Xbox's trend inside US borders. They jumped on Xbox bandwagon for Oblivion and Skyrim, and they will probably jump on Xbox One too.

I hate Oblivion and Skyrim. Sure, Skyrim is a bit better than Oblivion, its an improvement in the series after Oblivion, but it is still close to Oblivion level. They had terrible terrible mistakes on these games. Sadly, Mainstream gaming media automatically gives 10/10s to AAA games. Oblivion and Skyrim earned lots of 10s from such sites, and they will neglect every other criticism.

Bethesda was a PC-based company. We all loved Arena, Daggerfall, Redguard and Morrowind. Battlespire was a very meh game. Now Bethesda turned their back on their original PC community, and focuses on Xbox 360's Halo/Gears Of War/NFL community. This makes their game less Daggerfall/Morrowind and more Battlespire. Even the Skyrim's graphics on PC was terrible, due to being a direct port from Xbox 360 version. They had to create a "high resolution pack" just to tweak emulated port a little bit more.

Don't get me wrong (some xbox users will). I don't expect them to develop their games just and only just for Windows PCs. However I want them to be royal to their old community and focus primarily on PC.
But I am sure they will never do that. As I mentioned, Xbox become the main trend in America, and most of the American companies love guaranteed sales inside of their country's border.

Therefore I expect the new Fallout or TES game made a Xbox exclusive.

I don't think they will go exclusive, that would be unbelievably stupid.

Its one thing to start a franchise as a exclusive or go exclusive with a series that has over 80% of their fanbase on one console, but eliminating over half your customerbase is the company suicide equivalent of taking a huge flask of poison and throwing yourself under a train just to be sure.

If they would focus on the "Xbox 360's Halo/Gears Of War/NFL community", that would be to broaden their potential customerbase and not cut it in half. Going XBox exclusive would not mean more sales on the XBox, just no sales anywhere else. Even if US-Companies value US sales higher then international sales, they have to see that. So unless MS offers to pay them the potential loss in sales there is no logical reason not to port the game.

 

[Auron]

unfounded rumour, bethesda wouldn't backstab the entire community that put them where they are like that. It would be suicidal PR not to have a pc release and spread to their other games(like TES online.) pretty badly.

 

[Zanderinfal]

I doubt that SO HARD. There is such a small chance that anyone with a brain in Bethesda would say yes (with the exception of Todd Howard) that I think this may just be some crappy rumor used to piss off the PC market, or something. Honestly, if it's true, I will have one more reason to hate the Xbone.

First everything is pre-rendered, then this?! Hahahaha, ohhhh Microsoft, you stallions.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Firstly, this is only a rumour. Secondly, this is only a shaky rumour. And thirdly even if Fallout 4 was an Xbone exclusive, after the Xbone's disastrous 'reveal', it sure as hell won't be now.

 

[Quellist]

If this is the case fuck em, plain and simple. If the publishers are stupid or greedy enough to chain themselves to a cannonball then i hope it gets kicked down a well and drags them down with it. I'm not going to buy that cannonball just to play F4. (Now if it had been Xenoblade 2 i'd have been crying).

 

[The Lugz]

Riiiight.

Some fucker on a NeoGaf forum claiming "Patrick from GiantBomb claimed that he heard Fallout 4 will be in the lineup as an exclusive deal between Bethesda and Microsoft".

That's about as flimsy a pretext to write an article on anything that I've ever seen. And I saw a copy of The Sun once.

ooo, sunburn!

I, brain we were going somewhere with that? no.. really?... now i'm sad.

but in all seriousness yeah, source? of anything? even remotely whispered between anyone? no?
seems like a complete 180 from bathesda and seems to deliberately shoot them in the foot so I don't believe it either but honestly I could live without fallout, but if you take my elder scrolls away.... well I guess i'll just keep modding skyrim forever I suppose.

 

[Gameguy20100]

What and miss out on large amounts of mods?

This Is Bethesda remember they like mods because they use the good ones as inspiration for DLC or at least that's what I have heard

 

[Playful Pony]

Nah... Don't believe it =p. MAYBE it will be a timed exclusive... I can tell you that if it IS only for the xbone, I will have to do without it. That makes me sad, Fallout and The Elder Scrolls has always been a PC thing, and I really hope it will continue to be a PC thing even though it has been sliding towards consoles in recent years...

No game is interesting enough to get me to buy a new console for it though.

 

[exobook]

Just keep it on PC thats all I ask.

 

[J Tyran]

I just had a horrible thought, what if Bethesda want to throw PC users under the bus by making the next Elder Scrolls game Xbone exclusive in the hopes of funneling more players into the Elder Scrolls: Online?

Awful, gonna have nightmares again.

 

[SecondPrize]

Sorry if someone has mentioned this but... has Fallout 4 even been announced yet? I don't think it has but I may have missed it. If not, dismiss these rumors and the source as click bait. If so, I honestly don't think there's enough money Microsoft could offer Zenimax that would lead them into going exclusive on any console with any of their titles.

 

[Bertylicious]

Ha! Brilliant!

Hey, hey, I've got antoher one for you; I heard from a guy who knew a guy who once did time with a guy who got some money from Keyser Soze that JK Rowling is going to be rewriting the Harry Potter series so that Dumbledore gets killed by the XBox One.

Someone photoshop a picture of the Xbox One behind the grassy knoll in 1963 brandishing it's Kinect menacingly at the motorcade.

 

[Korolev]

Given how well it sells on the PC, I don't think it will be an exclusive. Bethesda would have to be on the point of bankruptcy and desperate for Microsoft funds for them to agree, and given how successful Skyrim was, I can bet that they can dictate the terms of what platform they can put their games on.

Studios do exclusives for money or because they have to because of contracts. Bethesda doesn't have a contract with microsoft, except perhaps for DLC and they don't need Microsoft's money.

Of course, it could have been "act-like-a-stupid" day at Bethesda HQ when Microsoft came around to talk about a deal, so it's not impossible. But I doubt it.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

A friend of mine said that the next Elder Scrolls was rumoured to be Xbone exclusive as well.

Of course, this is all definitely rumour at the moment, but it would be a hell of catch for the Xbox One if true.

But then what do Bethesda have to gain from making it exclusive? Surely they would make tonnes more money putting it on all the platforms possible.

They are basing this off of a forum post. So your joke is just as valid, sadly. What self-respecting editor would pass this?

 

[DanielBrown]

If it's true then it really sucks. I'm not gonna buy a Xbone anyway though, so take that, Microsoft!

 

[Spudgun Man]

Even if that is true it's not like they're going to ignore the pre existing consoles, wait no I think i've confused myself again... why are we having a new generation? most devs won't even use the current specs.

Ah fuck it, i'll just stick with GOG.com

 

[The_Scrivener]

If true, I'm buying 2 PS4s out of spite.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

i cant see Bethesda alienating the PC community. Too many mod fans of their games

 

[Krantos]

Yeah, I don't buy this one. Bethesda just recently brought their games to the PS3, I have a hard time believing they'd jump ship now that the PS4 will actually be easier to develop for.

And I can't for a second believe they'd abandon the PC Market. That's been their cornerstone for years. So, no unless I see a confirmation from someone I don't buy it.

A friend of mine said that the next Elder Scrolls was rumoured to be Xbone exclusive as well.

erm... The next Elder scrolls isn't even in development yet. BGS is working on Fallout 4, so I doubt anything like exclusivity is even being discussed yet.

 

[Raioken18]

Yeah... considering the modding community of Fallout and this new anti-modding stance the Xbox has I'd have trouble believing it. Oh and if any of those modders are reading, thank you. You breathe new life into those titles adding longer better constructed campaigns and great reasons to go back and replay aside from collecting lore.