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“From bringing mods to consoles with Fallout 4, now over a billion downloads, to the latest technologies fueling Xbox Series X/S.

“With each new console cycle, we evolved together,” Howard wrote. In particular, 2008’s Fallout ’s Fallout: New Vegas (developed by Obsidian Entertainment, which is now also owned by Microsoft) were major launches whose PlayStation shortcomings drove mainstream attention toward their Xbox 360 releases, even if those versions had their own issues.

By then it was already a critical and commercial smash hit on Xbox 360, and along with BioWare, Bethesda solidified Xbox as the western RPG platform of choice.Ī reputation for especially bugged launches on the PlayStation 3 certainly did not help Bethesda’s standing with Sony’s fans. Its successor, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, launched on PlayStation 3 four months after that console hit shelves. The game still sold more than 4 million copies on the Xbox, numbers that put it in the company of Halo: Combat Evolved. Morrowind did not launch on PlayStation 2, the best-selling console of its (or any) generation. “If we made it work, would people want it?” “I was dubious Xbox Morrowind would be worth the time, somewhat on a technical level, but more so from taking a hardcore RPG and moving it from a PC desktop experience to a controller-and-sofa experience,” Howard wrote in a note to fans today. He pointed out that The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind’s launch on Xbox in 2002 was a gamble for both companies. Todd Howard, the creative director of Bethesda Game Studios, said as much in a note Monday morning about the acquisition. Though Bethesda’s big works have also launched on PlayStation 3 and 4, if games like The Elder Scrolls or Fallout series had a lead platform over the past 18 years, it’d be Xbox. Bethesda Softworks and Microsoft’s games division have had a tight relationship going back to the first Xbox.