Microsoft osti itselleen ZeniMax Median, ja sen mukana muun muassa Bethesdan. Siitä käynnistyi huhumylly, jossa pelättiin tulossa olevan Starfieldin olevan Xboxin yksinoikeus. Pelko osoittautui aiheelliseksi, sillä Microsoftin ja Bethesdan yhteisessä E3-tilaisuudessa selvisi, että Starfield julkaistaan 11. marraskuuta 2022 yksinoikeudella Xboxille ja PC:lle.
Nyt sitten Bethesdan mies Todd Howard on kertonut The Telegraphille, että yksinoikeuden ansiosta tulossa on parempi peli.
"You don't ever want to leave people out, right? But at the end of the day, your ability to focus and say, this is the game I want to make, these are the platforms I want to make it on, and being able to really lean in on those is going to make for a better product."
Edelleen Howardin mukaan keskittyminen Microsoftin alustoille tuo Starfieldille enemmän pelaajia muun muassa Xbox Game Passin ansiosta.
"By focusing on those platforms, you really get to lean in a lot on making it the best it can be for those systems. And we're big believers in all of the avenues that Xbox and Microsoft are doing to get games to more people. Whether that's the integration with the PC, which is huge for us, the cloud streaming and all those things. So I think it's about taking a long term view. And our belief that those things are really fundamentally good. So we see it actually opening up more and more and more so that people's ability to play our games - via Game Pass and other things - their ability to play our games doesn't go down. It goes up dramatically."