Microsoft Acquiring Zenimax/Bethesda

[mutualcore]

I just did a count. SIE has 13 studios, XGS has 23. WOW, talk about flipping the narrative from just 3 years ago.

[Dom]

@mutualcore

I just did a count. SIE has 13 studios, XGS has 23. WOW, talk about flipping the narrative from just 3 years ago.

Phil Spencer dropped a nuclear bomb

[johancruijff]

@anon28208215

Together at last

you fuckers wait

[Bloodforge]

@levcortez

i wonder by the size of the deal, how long have they being in talk with each other?

This would have taken months.

[sam777 (Sam)]

@brunopcosta1

It is fair to say that it is a much bigger acquisition than what WB Games’ would have been, right?

Crazy thing is MS were looking at WB, and surely this deal was happening then, so MS were considering WB in addition to this

[johancruijff]

@brunopcosta1

It is fair to say that it is a much bigger acquisition than what WB Games’ would have been, right?

the IPs, the engines, the technologies…

like you guys remember Orion? the cloud streaming technology they presented last E3?

https://bethesda.net/en/game/orion

[mutualcore]

WB would have been the same or slightly larger. Frankly this is a better set of IP and technology.

[Blast_The_Bass (Justin)]

It’s a good thing I just bought 5 months of GPU, otherwise this deal wouldn’t have happened.

[mutualcore]

@Dom

Phil Spencer dropped a nuclear bomb

Phil just dropped a Tsar Bomba.

[AllianceOfficer]

@Voodoopeople

This is mental.

I love Arkane Studios as well.

The studio capacity MS has now is industry leading.

That said, they still need a bit more 3rd person output.

Whilst Bethesda are great, they seem to have a massive focus on 1st person games.

Buy Asobo, Techland and People Can Fly and call it a day!

[DannyEight]

Zero chance MS allow games like Starfield and Fallout 5 to be multiplat, just wishful thinking. All they will do is stick Fallout 76 and ESO on PS5, some minor stuff on Switch and that’s it.

[mutualcore]

Personally I want more 3rd person, fixed-camera games like the upcoming Tunic, 12 minutes, The Last Night. Moving camera(1st or 3rd person) makes me dizzy.

[Wom]

Must admit that I’m happy with the news today. Especially as PS5 got two games from Zenimax (timed) exclusive. Had a bit of fear this would happen to Wolfenstein as well. And Im a huge fan of the Machinegames Wolfenstein games. Best gunplay Ive played this generation, together with Rage 2. And now… I can play them en the sequels via Game Pass. Crazy times.

[The_Xboxer (Adam)]

Tom Warren (tomwarren)

Tom Warren (tomwarren)

[Knottian (Daniel)]

@Sikamikanico

Hey folks - whilst I’ve not seen anything too terrible, please don’t fall into posting any “lol salty sony pony” fanboy rhetoric here. It’s a huge industry moment, and yes, emotions may be running high. Just remember, it’s only video games, whichever “side” you’re on. Be good to each other.

Great point. Here I’ve been hoping Xbox would pick up Crytek to add CryEngine to Game Stack, and here they now have idTech as the possible substitute. This whole thing has so many implications, and so many of them are positive; even for those titles that will be on PS4 and PS5

[levcortez (Jan)]

Just thinking about, bethesda studios apply xbox game studios philisophy and these studios can also work with smaller teams on passion projects now to feed gamepass with weird new stuff. i look at you Roundhouse Studios give me the headhunter prey 2.

[DeoGame (Farewell)]

@johancruijff

That and Id Tech could have played a massive part in the decision.

[Calo (酷蓋)]

@anonymous

Game Industry is effectively going to be ruined in the next couple of years. There will be no third party publishers by the time this is finished, and I’m not talking about Sony’s retaliation. I’m talking about Epic, Amazon, etc …

This is great for MS, but simply terrible for gaming in general. It won’t stop here, as the only third parties that won’t be snapped up are the likes of EA or Take 2. If From, Sega, Capcom, and Square Enix are snapped up by Sony or another group that won’t put games on Xbox I bet most here won’t be celebrating very long …

I truly hate this. I hate any large publisher being picked up by a platform holder. Developers are one thing, but publishers are a different matter

Did you not see this coming? I thought this wasn’t a complete surprise for you.

[brunopcosta1 (Bruno Costa)]

The Bethesda acquisition talks seemingly started back in 2018.

Emanuela Zaccone (Zatomas)

[DannyEight]

@anonymous

Game Industry is effectively going to be ruined in the next couple of years. There will be no third party publishers by the time this is finished, and I’m not talking about Sony’s retaliation. I’m talking about Epic, Amazon, etc …

This is great for MS, but simply terrible for gaming in general. It won’t stop here, as the only third parties that won’t be snapped up are the likes of EA or Take 2. If From, Sega, Capcom, and Square Enix are snapped up by Sony or another group that won’t put games on Xbox I bet most here won’t be celebrating very long …

I truly hate this. I hate any large publisher being picked up by a platform holder. Developers are one thing, but publishers are a different matter

All media is consolidating. If MS didn’t do this, Sony may of or Google/Amazon. Possibly even Facebook.

It’s going to be a warzone soon enough when streaming takes off.