Microsoft acquires Zenimax Entertainment for $7.5 billion

[jerzey devil]

Yes, it took id four years to release DOOM Eternal and they’re currently cranking out the first of three planned DLC’s for it. Elder Scrolls isn’t more than a title to the public at this point.

So sure, in 4+ years, more than halfway through a console’s lifespan, they’ll have their system sellers.

That’s not what this is about.

I’m sure MS is still going to want to sell consoles in 4-5 years, even though I’ll bet ES6 is closer than that. Xbox 360 was beating PS3 in sales until the back end of that generation.

 

[Dizzy]

I’m sure MS is still going to want to sell consoles in 4-5 years, even though I’ll bet ES6 is closer than that. Xbox 360 was beating PS3 in sales until the back end of that generation.

Microsoft was able to capitalize on early mistakes that set them back dramatically that gen. This isn’t the same situation.

Sony is walking in with an install base that’s 2:1, an absolutely massive advantage and the excitement is through the roof for the PS5.

Of course they want to sell consoles but they’ve never toppled Sony in that regard and I think they’ve realized they need to focus elsewhere on something only they have the capital to pull off. Which is becoming the “Netflix” of gaming.

 

[jerzey devil]

Microsoft was able to capitalize on early mistakes that set them back dramatically that gen. This isn’t the same situation.

Sony is walking in with an install base that’s 2:1, an absolutely massive advantage and the excitement is through the roof for the PS5.

Of course they want to sell consoles but they’ve never toppled Sony in that regard and I think they’ve realized they need to focus elsewhere on something only they have the capital to pull off. Which is becoming the “Netflix” of gaming.

You’re downplaying the interest and excitement for the Series X though. I’m not saying Xbox is going to win but it will at the very least be a lot closer this time around...

One of the first prognosticators out of the gate is the SEO firm The Hoth. Analysts at the firm poured over data from Google Trends throughout the year and have concluded that the Xbox Series X will outsell the PlayStation 5 by Christmas.

"It's been seven years since the last console war and statistics indicate that Sony was by far the big winner, selling twice as many PS4s as Microsoft did Xbox Ones," The Hoth CMO Clayton Johnson told TechSpot via email. "If this [current] trend data is anything to go by, it looks like the pattern will be reversed, at least for the first Christmas."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.te...-predicted-have-double-sales-playstation.html

Microsoft also made it easy for Sony to win last gen because of the even bigger mistakes they made with the original Xbox One launch that they’re just now recovering from.

 

[Dizzy]

You’re downplaying the interest and excitement for the Series X though. I’m not saying Xbox is going to win but it will at the very least be a lot closer this time around...



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.te...-predicted-have-double-sales-playstation.html

Microsoft also made it easy for Sony to win last gen because of the even bigger mistakes they made with the original Xbox One launch that they’re just now recovering from.

It will be closer.

And Xbox One and PS4 both sold at similar rates at launch worldwide. It’s a new product, people are going to buy it.

The only deciding factor this holiday will be who has more stock. Lmao at double.

 

[BjPenn2017]

I’m sure MS is still going to want to sell consoles in 4-5 years, even though I’ll bet ES6 is closer than that. Xbox 360 was beating PS3 in sales until the back end of that generation.

if you think ES 6 is showing up any time before 2030 you’re smoking crack

 

[jerzey devil]

if you think ES 6 is showing up any time before 2030 you’re smoking crack

Holiday 2023 is my prediction.

 

[BjPenn2017]

Holiday 2023 is my prediction.

I have a lot of dreams that will never come true either lol

 

[mixmastermo]

Holiday 2023 is my prediction.

not before I can play Skyrim on my TI 82 graphing calculator...

 

[vcmmafan]

 

[Madmick]

Minecraft isn’t a system seller but Elder Scrolls and Doom games are.

Yep. Minecraft isn't a system seller specifically because it was already on nearly every platform in existence by the time Microsoft bought it (PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox 360, PS3, iOS, Android). They bought it to dig their fingers into every platform.

Minecraft runs on Java. Fucking J-A-V-A.

 

[Madmick]

Microsoft was able to capitalize on early mistakes that set them back dramatically that gen. This isn’t the same situation.

Sony is walking in with an install base that’s 2:1, an absolutely massive advantage and the excitement is through the roof for the PS5.

Of course they want to sell consoles but they’ve never toppled Sony in that regard and I think they’ve realized they need to focus elsewhere on something only they have the capital to pull off. Which is becoming the “Netflix” of gaming.

LMAO, it's not like they've been pursuing this strategy for over half a decade. Hey, guys, look who's regurgitating me five years later!

October 9, 2015:

But where Xbox has really been kicking Sony's ass is in the overall functionality of the device. As I mentioned above, Sony didn't even add DLNA/mp3 support to the PS4 until freaking August of 2015. While they finally added that, Xbox has continued to distance themselves by adding other features, and signing major contracts such as the one with EA moving towards a subscription-based gaming service (this is the future, btw: Netflix for gaming). As an HTPC device it is flat out superior. Don't care if that doesn't matter to you. It matters.

This isn't the curb-stomping that it was in 2013 after the gamer community wholesale rejected Microsoft's intended launch policies; disastrously botching their entire strategy for the product.

But he seems to think he's the one who understands all the moving parts in the business, here.

 

[Dizzy]

LMAO, it's not like they've been pursuing this strategy for over half a decade. Hey, guys, look who's regurgitating me five years later!

October 9, 2015:

But he seems to think he's the one who understands all the moving parts in the business, here.

You’re showing us that you’ve been a complete shill for 5+ years now?

No fucking shit lol.

 

[Madmick]

You’re showing us that you’ve been a complete shill for 5+ years now?

No fucking shit lol.

LMAO. Posted one week earlier:

Gamespot is becoming as bad as IGN with this stuff, btw. I wouldn't be surprised if they took big money from Microsoft to do this piece.

Evidence? Not towards Microsoft, specifically, but sure. I don't have many tools at my disposal besides logic. Let's test you guys. There was a deliberately insinuated "stealth plug" for a product in this video. Did you guys catch it?

It's the part where he asserts that the three guys who nailed the test with 100% accuracy did so because of "higher framerates". Oh really? How did you establish that? How did you "control" for framerate versus texturing, anti-aliasing, shadowing, or other graphical discrepancies that we know objectively exist? You certainly didn't show video of them explaining their suspicions. I am incredulous that if any of these test subjects mentioned that framerate was specifically what they noticed as differing that they wouldn't have simply aired that. LOL, silly rabbit, I don't even have to make assumptions. GTA V and Call of Duty have identical framerates on the consoles, so we can be certain framerate isn't what helped them differentiate the consoles.

So let me guess. Maybe you artificially imposed this narrative because Asus donated three 144Hz monitors to you, and they're keen to convince gamers that this feature which comes at a steep premium is worth the dough. So maybe you just wedged in a baseless claim towards their corporate interests with no validity or integrity whatsoever.

Oh, and 10/15 right from five gamers (only one who admits he pays attention to graphics and is confident he could discern them) represents 66% accuracy in a test where anything above 33% is a deviation above the expected probability of randomized accuracy. That actually relates a huge level of confidence in these gamers' ability to discern graphical differences, and again, this isn't exactly a roundtable of gamers like Linus.

 

[Dizzy]

LMAO. Posted one week earlier:

You really grilled them.

 

[Madmick]

You really grilled them.

Concession accepted.

 

[Dizzy]

Concession accepted.

You’re a dork.

 

[Steve-French]

@Dizzy It was just announced that going forward Bethesda games aren't going to be playable on the PS5.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...xpect-xbox-to-say-that-out-loud/#45038f033eb5

 

[Dizzy]

@Dizzy It was just announced that going forward Bethesda games aren't going to be playable on the PS5.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...xpect-xbox-to-say-that-out-loud/#45038f033eb5

That hasn’t been announced in the slightest. We’ve already been over this.

 

[Deadwing88]

@Dizzy It was just announced that going forward Bethesda games aren't going to be playable on the PS5.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...xpect-xbox-to-say-that-out-loud/#45038f033eb5

@Dizzy will continue living in denial until the day Starfield releases exclusively on PC/Xbox/Xcloud..

 

[Dizzy]

@Dizzy will continue living in denial until the day Starfield releases exclusively on PC/Xbox/Xcloud..

All they have to do is say it.

“iT’s a GOoD StRaTEgy”