Xbox Eyes Wider Sales for Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 5 as PS5 Base Tops 93 Million
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Updated · Forbes · Jun 13
Xbox Eyes Wider Sales for Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 5 as PS5 Base Tops 93 Million
3 articles · Updated · Forbes · Jun 13
Summary
Xbox is expected to keep Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 5 off the exclusives list, favoring broader sales over using the games as hardware drivers.
93 million PS5 units worldwide make a PlayStation launch hard to ignore, while Xbox first-party sales are weakened by day-one Game Pass availability and slowing subscriber growth after a 50% price hike.
Asha Sharma is still pushing to speed up major releases including Elder Scrolls VI, Fallout 5 and a new Halo, even as soaring development and component costs squeeze margins.
The timing problem is severe: Elder Scrolls VI was announced in 2018 after Skyrim launched in 2011, while Fallout 4 arrived in 2015 and a fifth mainline game is said to follow Elder Scrolls.
Halo remains the likelier candidate for tighter platform control, but Bethesda's biggest RPGs appear too expensive to wall off as Xbox faces weak hardware sales and questions about its long-term structure.