The Elder Scrolls 6 is "so far out" even Phil Spencer doesn't know what console it'll be on

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The one thing we know for sure about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Elder Scrolls 6 is that it's going to be a long, long time before any of us get to play it - so long, in fact, that ev🐻en Xbox boss Phil Spencer doesn't know what platforms it'll be available on.

During today's hearings over the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Activision deal, FTC lawyers asked Spencer about how Xbox decides wh𒈔ich games will be exclusive to its consoles. Spencer said that the decision is made on a case-by-case basis. Starfield, of course, is exclusive to Xbox and PC, with no PlayStation version planned. Asked if The Elder Scrolls 6 would follow suit, Spencer said the game's so far out that the decision hasn't been made yet.

, adding that "It’s so far out it’s hard to understand what the platforms will even be at this point."

There's some discrepancy in various transcriptions about the next part of the quote, but Spencer as saying "we’re talking about a game that’s five-plus years away." If The Elder Scrolls 6 does come out in 2028, that would make it a full decade between the initial announcement and finalꦅ launch - and 17 years since the launch of Skyrim. That would also put it around Micros🍸oft's expected launch timeframe for the next P𝓀layStation and Xbox consoles.

While The Elder Scrolls 6 has never bಌeen fully confirmed as an Xbox exclusive, Spencer did hint at that being the case in a 2021 interview. In today's questioning, how🌳ever, he told the FTC's lawyers "I don’t know that I’ve made a public statement saying that. When I said it I believed it was [true], but if you ask me today I can’t recall a public statement."

The FTC says the console war has been a competitive, back-and-forth battle, while 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox argues that it's already lost.

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