PlayStation knew that the purchase of Activision would not make Call of Duty exclusive

In this sense, the FTC showed emails between Xbox executives where dynamics were mentioned to block the arrival of their video games on rival streaming services.

Subsequently, Pete Hines, Bethesda’s head of global publishing, was questioned on the stand to resolve questions from the FTC regarding the Xbox exclusivity of its new titles, such as Starfield, which will not be available on PS5.

“In my opinion, we would not be launching this game in nine weeks (it goes on sale on September 6) if we had support for a complete additional platform,” Hines said, revealing that the next Indiana Jones game, developed by his studio, it will also be exclusive to Xbox and PC.

In this regard, the FTC said that the original contract with Disney was for the game to be available on various consoles; however, this was changed after Microsoft bought Bethesda to make it exclusive to Xbox.