Good or bad
Playstation fanboys are basically like this on Twitter rn. It's pretty entertaining.
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I don't have a good read on this. My gut reaction is that Microsoft is less incompetent than Bethesda, so this is a positive.
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I think this is good thing for PC gamer, i mean what if its Sony instead
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Another one bites the dust... here comes some BS I bet. What do you figure? Xbox exclusive Elder Scrolls 6? Pulling games off steam to put on the M$ store?
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Microsoft has recently made a reversal and started publishing on Steam (Gears 5 for instance). Windows is their platform too, remember.
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Also considering partnering up with EA for game pass. They really seem to be one bringing stuff together. Not separating it.
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Microsoft is a PC company as well, doing Windows and plenty of other stuff over the years, they make money from people using their system (XBox or Windows) either way. Sony did some hardware IIRC (I think I remember there were Sony laptops) and Nintendo have had nothing to do with PC development, though did allow their IPs to be licensed out for some stuff.
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unlike sony and nintendo they have the most used operative system.
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Cool, Doom and Evil Within series is coming to Xbox Game Pass :)
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Next on the MS's Christmas list: EA?!
Because i don't see MS trying to buy Ubi and Acti/Blizzard due to Tencent having various percentages in those two companies. And Warner doesn't worth anything without the licenses. I don't see MS going into comic books and WB/AT&T won't give up on the cashing cow. LOTR, LEGO and Harry Potter are not in discussion for any deal, as all those are licenses given for a certain time period. Which leaves MK and FEAR (and FEAR is a buried IP, basically). So there is no value in even attempting to buy the Warner gaming branch.
So, the only triple A company that has something to offer is actually... EA....There were rumors for years for many of the recent aquisitions (Obsidian, inXile, Beth) and most people dismissed. There are rumors for MS wanting to buy EA, too. Looking to the recent purchases... they don't seem so far-fetched anymore.
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Bethesda was bought for aprox $7.5 billion USD. Quick Google search places EA at a net worth of aprox $23 billion. Now, Microsoft may actually be able to pony up that kind of capital, but they would only do so if they could reasonably expect to manage EA's productive assets more profitably than EA already has. Which, hell they just might. Perhapsthe EA Play integration into Gamepass is a prelude of things to come?
But I wouldn't discount Ubisoft as a target just yet, honestly.
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Ubi ownership in our days...
Tencent bailed Ubi when Vivendi atempted for a hostile takeover. They have a nice percentage in Ubi due to that, plus some extra through various shell companies. So MS would love to avoid anything tied with Tencent. Remember that MS wanted TikTok and the deal fis in the air due to the chinese being heavily involved.
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To be frank, I am genuinely not sure which one is worse: Tencent owing you or Vivendi.
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Things are getting a bit weird, I guess MS really wants to "win" this console generation.
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Interesting news hidden in their announcement:
Xbox Game Pass, which has reached a new milestone of over 15 million subscribers.
They announced 10 million subscribers on April 29th. So they gained 5 million subscribers or grew by 50% in just 5 months!
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Not great news, sad to see that TES6 won’t be available on PS5
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Bethesda games have all been available on Steam. As for going forward all first party Microsoft titles will be released on PC and Xbox. This doesn't necessarily mean they'll be available on Steam but it's likely that they will be.
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Well for PC gamers it is certainly better than Sony owning them but I don't like this at all, it's just not good to see so many developers and IPs piling up under one roof. Right now MS might properly act out their underdog status while being perceived as the "good guys" in the industry but we all know how quick things will change once they find themselves in a more favorable position. Just remember how pro-consumer Ubisoft acted when they were on the verge of being bought out by Vivendi and how quickly their tone shifted once the crisis was averted.
Also, I fully expect this to start another dirty "console war" (or a service war) because Sony will have to react to this.
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Oh hell yeah!
You have to wonder why M$ is so hard at work trying to get people on their "free" OS, right?
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Since a lot of Bethesda IPs had used Vulkan instead of DX12 this may be a bad news for Linux gaming. We'll see I guess.
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it should be fine, MS did a great job with minecraft. hopefully they won't go the stupid way of turning everything in mmo, like bethesda originally did.
still better than joining the epic-trash train.
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Bethesda, Obsidian, and InXile under one roof. I see a great fallout game coming.
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Microsoft haven't bought Zenimax they've just come to an agreement on what the terms of the purchase will be, it still needs to receive regulatory approval before it can go through.
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If this means that Todd Howard cannot play a dictator with upcoming games any more and BGS has to hire actual writers and coders, this is the best gaming news of this decade. Maybe TES7 may end up as an actual game and not just a modding framework like TES4 and TES5 did. And maybe MS will just give the Fallout license back to those people who made it and know how to write an actual story in it—considering they also bought those devs a little while back.
(I don't dare of dreaming about Howard getting fired. Then again, MS finally got us rid of Molyneux… so there may be some hope.)
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That's wierd, considering some Bethesda games are timed exclusives on PS5
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With Obsidian and The Outer Worlds, they went through with current obligations for other systems, but anything else will be exclusive. Same here, I should think.
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Both games were announced as “timed console exclusives,” meaning that they would be restricted to the PlayStation 5 for a fixed period of time before coming to Xbox.
Microsoft will keep that commitment, Spencer said in an interview. Future games, like Starfield, will be available for Xbox, PC and Microsoft’s Game Pass video-game service. “We’ll take other consoles on a case-by-case basis,” Spencer said.
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Hmm, last I heard (around the time of the mentioned Obsidian purchase), exclusive was used. So maybe hopes of Doom, Fallout or Prey sequels on PS5 won't be out, just unlikely.
I still don't like stuff like this. Smaller companies maybe, especially ones that are basically sticking with one system already, but a big multi system publisher with multiple developers under them?
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Bah. The One sucked, so now they are just buying every good developer they can.
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What? Seriously??? Heck yeah! New games - less bugs.
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wait... that means Microsoft now owns the Fallout IP.... Microsoft also owns Obsidian....
srsly though, idk... i personally didn't enjoy any recent Bethesda game and it seems like there were very little chances for change, now change came so i'll stay optimistic.
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Bethesda and Obsidian under the same roof, I think that it is a good thing but it is worrying that MS is just buying companies to increase their catalog.
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This is huge news!! Obsidian and Bethesda under same roof!
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