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Could Fallout 4 really come as an Xbox One exclusive?

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June 12, 2014 10:15:49 AM

http://www.examiner.com/article/fallout-4-xbox-one-excl...

I read this and it immediately made me sad, as a member of the PC Gaming Master Race through and through. I suppose it would be a smart move by Microsoft to get a huge boost in Xbone sales (Fallout is about the only franchise that I would consider buying one for) but I really don't want to get one just for one game (although I probably would).

Please can someone refute this? Find some evidence that it's all a hoax?

If it IS true then imagine how much Microsoft must be paying Bethesda...

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June 12, 2014 10:26:20 AM

Hopefully Bethesda wouldn't do something stupid like that. They've already done enough to damage their reputation with a sad excuse of a game called Elder Scrolls Online.
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June 12, 2014 10:42:25 AM

They won't, they know that how much profitable pc gaming is.
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June 12, 2014 12:10:52 PM

At worst it would be a timed exclusive like Skyrim's DLC, where the game would be Xbone exclusive for a few months and then get ported to other platforms. Microsoft just doesn't have enough money to pay third parties to make a game exclusive on a permanent basis, not with their rather low sales compared to the PS4. We're already seeing that with Dead Rising 3 getting a PC port because not enough units sold on Xbox One to make a profit for Capcom.
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June 12, 2014 12:31:05 PM

It would be pretty short sighted of them to make it an exclusive. Not only would they be reducing their income potential, they would be pissing off a large modding community. As others stated it would likely only be a limited time exclusive if anything, but I think Bethesda is smarter than that (though making an Elder Scrolls MMO, still not sure about that one).
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June 12, 2014 1:33:15 PM

Ahah i was in the Elder Scrolls online Beta program and from what i saw it was a pretty solid MMO!,
No way at all the will Make Fallout 4 a Xbox exclusive!,especially not when fallout is a series that started for PC and is very PC deep in its roots,even if the creators changed i dont see why they would cancel out the group that buys there games years after release for modding and such!
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June 12, 2014 9:29:16 PM

Considering that article is more than a year old I doubt MS could still pay to have Fallout 4 be Xbone exclusive. As other's have stated the sales for the Xbone have not been very good and far from expectations.

Also the article is basing it's source for the info off a rumor posted on "not the most official or reliable" of sites ;) 
Bethesda would never cut their sales profits by more than half to gain the comparatively little extra $ up-front from signing exclusively with MS
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