There are no facts with this. You put too much belief in insiders. An acquisition the size of Bethesda takes time to assimilate and incorporate. Its business, the idea they will buy Sega, Ubi, WB anytime soon is ridiculous
Localisation is a sore point for Xbox. PlayStation is miles ahead in this regard. The biggest PlayStation exclusives get localized even for some small countries while xbox continues to ignore even some big markets. If they really want to reach those billions of gamers they boast about, they’ll have to localize. I’m not talking about full voice localization, I’m talking about captions and ui. That has to be doable.
PlayStation is miles ahead in Localisation and it’s sad. Having Arabic and south east asian languages makes PlayStation the obvious choice in those respective regions.
Yep. Until these fundamental things are addressed, I don’t wanna hear jack shit about how Xbox simply buying studios and publishers in those regions will solve their problems.
PlayStation even has localization in Croatian language. So they localize for a country of 4 millions of people! Even if we count some of the neighboring countries, that’s max 15 millions of people, while Microsoft doesn’t bother with very big regions.
Opening to more regions than traditional ones is what Microsoft needs now. They’ve got plenty of studios, two good consoles, now make all of that more approachable to other regions. Having stores, localizations, etc is what’s needed.
No insider knew about Bethesda, but it’s easy for anyone to say it now because MS have admitted to looking for new acquisitions. The insiders will know at the same time as us.