 Hey there lads and ladies it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and I am here today to talk about Xbox and maybe more specifically Microsoft and Bethesda and how they are teaming up together. Of course Microsoft bought Bethesda and what I'm really wanting to talk about is how is that going to affect us and when I say us I am of course talking about Playstation Virtual Reality users and you know I think it would be fair to say that if you were a PSVR fan, PSVR user or even Playstation user in general a lot of this stuff should concern you. First of all if you're just a normal Playstation gamer only on PS4 or PS5 whatever 100% this is going to have a negative impact on you but for Virtual Reality for PSVR not exactly as clear cause as that although I would still imagine it is ominous at best. So why should we care as PSVR gamers or not even just PSVR gamers, Virtual Reality gamers in general? That is because Bethesda are one of the few triple A publishers slash developers out there who are willing to put the time and the effort into driving Virtual Reality forward. It seems very clear to me that Bethesda or somewhere someone in Bethesda one of the higher ups they believe in Virtual Reality they want to see it succeed and they want to push their games on Virtual Reality and we've seen this with Skyrim Virtual Reality, we've seen it with Fallout, we've seen it with Wolfenstein Cyberpilots, we were about to see it again with Doom 3 Special Edition, we've seen it already with Doom Virtual Reality or VF4 sorry. So Bethesda even though a lot of the games I'm just after mentioning have had very mixed results when it comes to Virtual Reality a lot of that stuff has just been ported. So for example while Skyrim was excellent I love Skyrim Virtual Reality it wasn't built for the ground up to include all these Virtual Reality you know motion control interactions whatever it kind of feels just like a port straight up port obviously they added the motion control combat so I guess you could give them credit there and certainly I would especially for the archery and stuff like that feels very natural but then you know a game like Fallout even though it never came to us even on PC does it has some like mixed results there I mean I'm not sure if it ran very well even for the high end PC's those blurriness issues and etc etc and then you had Wolfenstein Cyberpilots which is you know there what I will say I am excited once again for Doom 3 Fiora Edition which is coming out at the end of the month of course that looks excellent even though it's a days it game it's been out for a long long time there's the fact that it's going to be like it has a horror element to it that's right up my alley so yeah Bethesda has shown interest in Virtual Reality is my point they seem to be believers in us and I'm always excited for Bethesda E3's because there's always the chance that they will surprise us and throw us Virtual Reality gamers a bone when so many other AAA developers just will not so what has changed why has this got me concerned well the big reason is that Microsoft have bought them so if Microsoft bought them that means that Phil Spencer is now in charge of all these Bethesda Studios and if you've been paying attention to Virtual Reality in the past you may know that Phil Spencer is not the biggest believer in Virtual Reality he's been openly kind of doubtful of Virtual Reality he seems to think that it's not ready yes especially not for consoles it's not ready for the sitting room project Scorpio which laser came on to be known as the Xbox one X was supposed to have Virtual Reality at launch like that was one of the bullet points that it was gonna have high fidelity Virtual Reality support of course the console came out and after released Phil Spencer came along and said actually we're backtracking on that we don't think Virtual Reality is ready yes so you know the Xbox last generation never got the or support even though they advertised us you know they did a real one easy there for whatever reason I guess they were seen does you know PS viewer wasn't exactly set in the world on fire you know the Rift the five you know they have their place to have their fans they have their niche but they weren't making big big money and Microsoft run about big big money and I mean we can we can look up in articles interviews that Phil Spencer so even just typing in Google Phil Spencer viewer you can see his the headlines Forbes Xbox head Phil Spencer rules out viewer for Xbox series X which is the one just came out now down here he's saying nobody's asking for viewer on Xbox he believes in viewer but says it's still not right for consoles Phil Spencer hopes viewer gets bigger but currently not part of their plan or whatever I'm just you know I'm finishing these titles because it's pretty easy to guess what he's about to say let's read this one this is pretty new February 2020 and he's talking about the Xbox series X which is the newest one so speaking to the gamer tag radio podcast Spencer outlined Microsoft and Xbox in particular stands on viewer saying there are no plans for any sort of virtual reality supporting the next generation of Xbox consoles we're not gonna do that I understand certain people want to do that would want that I should say but we have to focus our efforts on things we're doing right now and the most precious resource that we have is the team and their ability and I just have to focus on the things we're doing right now he expanded upon his comment about resources laser in the video suggesting Xbox would be unable to provide the same follow viewer experience as Sony on PS viewer or about blah blah blah he says viewer is not as simple as plug in your headset you have to redo the dash even though Sony never redid the dash like there's a bunch of work that goes into it and the teams at valve the teams at Sony the teams of Oculus that that are doing that work they know the completeness and what it means to support the platform Spencer somewhat fell fell of the viewer community last November when he controversially states that nobody is asking for viewer claiming it is isolating and goes against Xbox's idea of gaming being communal there we go this is the kind of stuff that is terrifying to see this is the guy who now owns Bethesda I mean Matt his company does not his company the company he works for does please the guy making decisions when it comes to the gaming wing of Xbox and he thinks it's isolating he thinks it goes against Xbox's very core principles of being communal despite those previous comments Spencer wasn't entirely down on viewer on that nice in this latest interview he named drop Sony's upcoming Iron Man viewer and states that he knows people that are working on some good viewer titles great viewer titles and I'm not trying to not be supported of those to use a double negative so he's just trying to not shit and his friends who do believe in virtual reality okay you get the you get the gist of that what article was that that was from Forbes Forbes.com I'll link that in the description if anyone wants to read that themselves you know that's the end of the Phil Spencer piece which is the important part for what we're worried about right now I will keep in mind that that interview was from 2020 this time last year it's not entirely clear to me whether this deal this Bethesda deal was in the works all the way back then could very well have been because this is such a huge you know business move maybe it takes a considerable amount of time to get all these gears into motion so it is possible his thoughts will have evolved hopefully since then on virtual reality it is also possible that the people within Bethesda who are now who have now been absorbed into Microsoft into Xbox maybe they'll be like hey you said you want to give us freedom to do what we want while we want to do viewer let us do viewer but even if that does happen there's a good chance it'll be like okay you can do virtual reality but only on the Oculus only on PC you're not given PlayStation anymore game and that is why I do strongly suspect that doom 3 will be the last game that we get from Bethesda on PS4 in terms of well probably last game we get from Bethesda on PS4 for stuff and that is sad you know there's so much potential there for future titles to go virtual reality probably gonna miss out on the Elder Scrolls 6 whenever that gets for your support I mean even if our hardware is good enough even if we're playing that on the PS6 on the PS viewer 3 or whatever because of business reasons we won't be up to get that we'll have our own games I'm sure whatever but still that'll be a painful one to miss you know same with Fallout 5 same with like future Doom games and you know they've got so many IPs by doing this it's like a ridiculous amount of IPs pray pray we're dabbling with virtual reality support follows as I've said you know Wolfenstein dishonored all these games that could have had viewer support that could have had a great future on PS4 but it looks like those dreams are coming to a close and we just have to rely on other AAA publishers and developers and hopefully Sony themselves to give us that content instead because it looks like we're gonna be looking over at the other side of the fence and seeing these fantastic games and wishing we could have them now the only possible saving grace for us PlayStation owners would be if Sony allowed Microsoft to put the Xbox Game Pass on PlayStation systems that is highly unlikely to happen their indirect competition with one another for Xbox Game Pass to come to PlayStation it would mean exposing PlayStation users through the Xbox ecosystem in order to play these games which Sony would I mean that you would imagine that's the last thing they would ever want however if it does get to a stage where Microsoft have bought so many of these huge studios like they said they're not done yet they might go for Rockstar next they might go well take two I guess they might go for Capcom you know Konami titles or IPs or whatever and then you're looking at a situation where people stop buying PlayStation consoles and then Sony are kind of maybe desperate and then they say okay fine you can put game pass on PlayStation that is an unlikely future but it is I guess possible something probably think about in the future one day maybe 10 years time whatever everything's up in the air you know you cannot say for certain what's going to happen for all we know Xbox Microsoft Phil Spencer will say okay you can you can still have VR games seen as viewers such a niche gaming America's at the moment we want to sell as many copies of our games as we can in virtual reality so we will let PSV or have them that's a possibility too if that happened I mean we'd be pretty happy with that but you know again who knows all speculation let me know down in the comments what you think about all of this this is one this is a big one this is a big one it'll be sad if we miss out on all these potential games or all these potential games that would have happened are now no longer gonna happen and we never ever even hear about them because Phil said no no virtual reality get that shit out of here go make fucking go put some more micro transactions in the Elder Scrolls 6 all right we don't have time for this I don't know anyway that is it for me Wafflin on and on about this topic let me know in the comments again what you think and we can discuss it further there if you would like but before I do in the video let me thank my Patreon supporters his names are on the screen as we speak thanks their 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