Sony Pushed for The Elder Scrolls Online on Console
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:02 pm
Bethesda only planned to launch its upcoming MMO The Elder Scrolls Online on PC and Mac until Sony intervened, reveals SCEA VP Adam Boyes.
In an interview with Game Informer, Boyes says that the game "was never planned to come to console" until Sony pitched Bethesda on making the jump to the PlayStation 4. Explains Boyes: "We just kept kind of sitting with them and being like, 'Well, why not?...Why don't you do this?'"
But Sony wouldn't take Bethesda's 'We're not planning it' as a final answer. "I'm like, 'Well, what if we built a plan
we could do that?'" says Boyes.
Apparently Boyes' enthusiasm for The Elder Scrolls Online - he says he loves MMOs and the Elder Scrolls series - caught on. So much so that the game will be released on both the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One.
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In an interview with Game Informer, Boyes says that the game "was never planned to come to console" until Sony pitched Bethesda on making the jump to the PlayStation 4. Explains Boyes: "We just kept kind of sitting with them and being like, 'Well, why not?...Why don't you do this?'"
But Sony wouldn't take Bethesda's 'We're not planning it' as a final answer. "I'm like, 'Well, what if we built a plan
we could do that?'" says Boyes.
Apparently Boyes' enthusiasm for The Elder Scrolls Online - he says he loves MMOs and the Elder Scrolls series - caught on. So much so that the game will be released on both the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One.
Continue reading…
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