Doom: The Dark Ages will also arrive on PlayStation 5, but it will not be the only Xbox game to do so, as anticipated by the general director of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer, who has also commented on the “difficult” decision to close the games. teams from various studios linked to Bethesda.
The ‘Xbox Games Showcase 2024’ event, held this Sunday, has shown its own and third-party video games and the updates that will arrive on Xbox consoles soon, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, Age of Mythology: Retold and Life is Strange: Double Exposure.
Bethesda and iD Software, both owned by Microsoft, have taken the opportunity to present a new installment of Doom: The Dark Ages, which will arrive next year on Xbox Series X and S and PC, but also on PlayStation 5.
In this regard, Spencer has pointed out that “Doom is one of those franchises that has a history on many devices. A franchise that everyone deserves to play”, and that is why they decided that it should be launched on all platforms.
It will not be the only game from Xbox studios that will be released to other platforms, as Spencer himself has anticipated in an interview on IGN Live, held after the ‘Xbox Games Showcase 2024’.
Xbox’s bet, however, is on its Game Pass service. At the presentation, we saw “an incredible collection of games that will come to Xbox, that will come to Game Pass day one and that if you buy the game on our console, you can play on PC and console cross-play within Game Pass,” he said. outstanding.
Spencer has also assured that Xbox users will be able to purchase or subscribe to the game and that the company is committed to supporting the title on other screens. “You’re going to see more of our games on more platforms,” she added.
CLOSING OF STUDIES
In recent years, Xbox has been on media covers for the purchases of development studios, such as Activision Blizzard, but also previously ZeniMAx Media, which included Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames , Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog and Roundhouse Studios.
At the beginning of May it was learned that he had decided to close several studios linked to Bethesda: Arkane Austin, responsible for Redfall; Alpha Dog Studios, developers of Doom; Tango Gameworks, studio behind Hi-Fi Rush; and Roundhouse Games.
Spencer has remained silent these weeks, and in this regard, he has commented that “closing any team is difficult.” “Ultimately, I have to run a sustainable business within the company and grow significantly that sometimes I have to make difficult decisions,” she said.
Regarding the integration of Activision, Blizzard and King into Xbox Studios, Spencer has highlighted the organic collaboration between teams that is emerging. And he recalled that they have gone from having four titles (Fable, Halo, Forza and Gears), which for years they took to each E3 trying to make them look different, to an “incredible collection of teams and franchises”, and that despite the responsibility that That’s what he added, and he is “proud” of the work they are doing.
