IGN France, Smith spoke about the transition to being owned by Microsoft, noting that once acquired it “was a change with [a] capital C,” (thanks, Eurogamer). “They came in and they said ‘No PlayStation 5, we’re focusing on Xbox, PC and the Game Pass’.” This comes after repeated pushes from Sony that Microsoft is taking games away from PlayStation. Now, in a statement to Eurogamer, Microsoft has said it isn’t doing that, as evidenced by Bethesda published titles like Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo still being on PS5.
“We haven’t pulled any games from PlayStation,” starts the statement from Microsoft. “In fact, we’ve expanded our footprint of games that we’ve shipped on Sony’s PlayStation since our acquisition of ZeniMax, and the first two games we shipped after closing were PlayStation 5 exclusives. We did the same thing since our closing of Minecraft as we extended the reach of that franchise.