Regardless, the FTC also argues that this manufactured categorization doesn’t matter because Microsoft’s exclusivity decision applied to “all future ZeniMax games.” While Microsoft said in 2021 that “some” future Bethesda games would be Xbox exclusives, no Bethesda non-exclusives have been announced since then.

I’m fairly confident that I read someone saying – maybe on /r/fallout or /r/fo76 or somewhere – that Bethesda had stated that existing franchises would not be XBox-only, though new ones could.

That may-or-may-not have been an accurate representation of what was said (I only read their summary) and may-or-may-not have changed since then, but that’s what I recall the statement being.