Doom: The Dark Ages will not be the only first-party Xbox game to reach other platforms

June 10 (Portaltic/EP) –

Doom: The Dark Ages will also come to PlayStation 5but 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 teams of several 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 come to 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 Expousure.

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 to Xbox Series X and S and PC, but also to PlayStation 5.

In this regard, Spencer noted 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 a interview on IGN Liveheld 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 purchases of development studios, such as Activision Blizzardbut 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.” “In the end, I have I have to run a sustainable business within the company and grow significantly that sometimes I have to make difficult decisions“, Has expressed.

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 one “amazing collection of teams and franchises“, and that despite the responsibility that this has added, and is “proud” of the work they are doing.