Bethesda: Next gen consoles should be all about crossplay
At some point between nuking the Greenbrier and playing the tuba during last week's Fallout 76 hands-on I managed to steal 10 minutes with Peter Hines, Bethesda Softworks' long-serving vice-president of PR and marketing. The publisher has plenty of irons in the fire right now: VR spin-offs from Arkane and MachineGames, a co-op Wolfenstein starring BJ's daughters and the cataclysmic Doom Eternal, to say nothing of the probably-next-gen Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6. In other news, the publisher has decided to drop Steam for Fallout 76's launch in favour of its own proprietary launcher. Will other Bethesda titles follow suit, and what should we expect from the next round of console hardware? Here's Hines.
Fallout 76 is going out via the Bethesda launcher. You're moving away from Steam -
Pete Hines: Well, we're doing this one in particular over Bethesda.net, because of the kind of online game-as-a-service thing it is. It remains to be seen if there's anything else after this.
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