The Outer Worlds (PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PS5, PS4) (Spacer's Choice Edition releasing March 7, 2023)
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if it's coming out in 2019, then they've been working on it since long before the deal with MSMicrosoft didnt throw the bag to make this exclusive?
voltronblack
Superstar
The Outer Worlds isn’t a Microsoft game, even though it’s buying ObsidianMicrosoft didnt throw the bag to make this exclusive?
Take-Two’s Private Division may have snatched the jewel from the crown
By Charlie Hall@Charlie_L_Hall Dec 7, 2018, 11:20am EST
Late last night, after everyone was finished swooning over the trailer for Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds but before this morning’s embargoed stories hit, there was a collective pause on social media.
“Wait a minute,” wondered several folks out loud, “didn’t Microsoft buy those guys just last month?” We wondered the same thing. So I asked Leonard Boyarsky, co-game director and co-creator of the Fallout franchise, about it during our interview earlier this week.
“Microsoft came and looked at a bunch of different stuff we were doing, and this game [The Outer Worlds] was one of them,” Boyarsky said. “But we mostly spend — well — we’ve exclusively been working with Private Division on this.”
Private Division is a new independent-focused label under Take-Two Interactive Software. It’s home to a number of different, and unusual, projects. Among them is Kerbal Space Program; Take-Two bought developer Squad not long ago. Private Division will also publish Assassin’s Creed creator Patrice Désilets’ bizarre, early-human action adventure game, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.
Effectively, Microsoft got to see an early preview of The Outer Worlds before it was unveiled to the world. But the people at Take-Two got there first and, if the game does well, they’re the ones who will get paid.
“The acquisition really hasn’t been a part of what we’re doing at all [on The Outer Worlds],” Boyarsky continued. “We’ve just been working on this game [with] the great folks over at Private Division. None of that is going to change.”
Reading between the lines, however, the team at Obsidian has to be incredibly busy right now. They’re currently working to port Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, which was funded on the Fig platform, to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. There’s the yearlong journey to get The Outer Worlds out the door, but there has to be at least one other project being developed behind closed doors. And it must be something to get Microsoft excited enough to purchase a studio that’s currently working on two other projects for people other than them.
On paper, that sounds like a gamble. But with Obsidian’s history of creative output and the deep bench of talent it has on staff, I can see why Microsoft decided to roll the dice.
The Outer Worlds isn’t a Microsoft game, even though it’s buying Obsidian
Microsoft got a early look at it, they should have threw the bag at take two to get this exclusive.
Dirty Mcdrawz
Your girl loves em....
Hopefully this makes Bethesda upgrade fallout either way it’s a win- win for me 
Bethesda lawst
Malik1time
What you looking at?
looks interesting
it would have to be a pretty big bag to get them to abandon the (arguably) largest platform. not to mention they may have already been contracted to release on the PS4, and/or exclusives isn't what Private Division is all about
Black Bolt
Superstar
It's multi platMan I might have to cop an xbox next gen. Lol at Bethesda
The War Report
NewNewYork
The real Fallout 
Killigraphy
Banned
Not having Romance options is kinda bush league, especially since games made 10 years ago had it. Dragon Age and Mass Effect are the GOAT of both romance options and story telling. Saying it shifts the focus is a lazy excuse.
Outerworlds vs starfield 2019. Let's fukkin go 
Norrin Radd
To me, my board!
Man we aint finna see Starfield til at LEAST 2021Outerworlds vs starfield 2019. Let's fukkin go
romance in video games is wack
