Microsoft acquires Zenimax Entertainment for $7.5 billion
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That's kind of already the case though. The PS4 kicked the ever living shit out of them this gen, mainly due to it's exclusive library, and clear advantage in the Japanese market, which MS has been trying to crack ever since they entered this market. Microsoft now has a chance to have a very healthy exclusive lineup, something they've sorely lacked since the early 360 days, and I doubt they'll pass that up. They know the value of exclusives, as their most successful console(a broken ass piece of shit) sold well because of the exclusives they had at the time, not to mention getting one of Sony's premiere exclusives(GTA) over to their machine on day 1.
I don't think they will be playing nice. You don't make a move like this to play nice.
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dont really see how this changes anything, all my friends are with sony. Plus I didnt really enjoy any of Bethesda's games anyway last one I got was Fallout and wolfenstein.
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Gamepass on playstation seems to be the current direction.
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Ok buddy. You tell yourself whatever you want. I’m a Sony guy. I’ve got my ps5 preorder in. Yesterday’s news concerns me too.
That being said a part of me is cautiously optimistic that Microsoft will not take a draconian approach to things and will not block Bethesda et al games from coming to PlayStation. For one, Microsoft seemed much more open to the idea of cross platform play than Sony was at first. Secondly, I get the impression that Microsoft doesn’t want to come off as the big bad like Apple and Facebook have very recently. Motives aside, Microsoft definitely seems to be taking a very consumer friendly approach to things lately and I don’t think they would just leave PS5 and Switch owners out in the cold completely. I think it’s probably good enough for them to make their titles timed exclusives and available on Game Pass to show users the value in making the jump to team green.
But I could be completely out to lunch and Microsoft could take a giant shit on the PlayStation fan base. Time will tell. But you have literally no solid ground to stand on in your arguments. At best you’re going through the stages of grief.
Youre stuck at either denial or bargaining. I’m not a psychologist so I can’t tell which.
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If they want to be the “Netflix of Gaming” that’s the only logical step.
Netflix doesn’t just work on Samsungs.
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I’ve accepted a lot of Bethesda titles will be on PS5.Ok buddy. You tell yourself whatever you want. I’m a Sony guy. I’ve got my ps5 preorder in. Yesterday’s news concerns me too.
That being said a part of me is cautiously optimistic that Microsoft will not take a draconian approach to things and will not block Bethesda et al games from coming to PlayStation. For one, Microsoft seemed much more open to the idea of cross platform play than Sony was at first. Secondly, I get the impression that Microsoft doesn’t want to come off as the big bad like Apple and Facebook have very recently. Motives aside, Microsoft definitely seems to be taking a very consumer friendly approach to things lately and I don’t think they would just leave PS5 and Switch owners out in the cold completely. I think it’s probably good enough for them to make their titles timed exclusives and available on Game Pass to show users the value in making the jump to team green.
But I could be completely out to lunch and Microsoft could take a giant shit on the PlayStation fan base. Time will tell. But you have literally no solid ground to stand on in your arguments. At best you’re going through the stages of grief.
Youre stuck at either denial or bargaining. I’m not a psychologist so I can’t tell which.
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MS has to decide whether they think they’ll make more money selling these games directly to PlayStation users or if they’ll make more by trying to get them to buy an Xbox and sign up for game pass (or sign up for game pass for pc).
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Phil Spencer was saying how execs at Nintendo and Sony aren't interested in gamepass on their platforms.
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"The thing about other gaming console platforms is we're not able to bring a full Xbox experience on those platforms," Spencer said in a new video interview with GameStar.
"In places where we have brought Xbox - mobile phones like we're doing now with Project xCloud with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate [and] what we've done with PC bringing our full Xbox experience there - we know when somebody is playing one of our Xbox games there is an expectation that they've got their Xbox Live community, they have their Achievements, Game Pass is an option, my first-party library is completely there...
"The other competitive platforms really aren't interested in having a full Xbox experience on their hardware. But for us, we want to be where gamers want to be and that's the path that we're on.""
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I think this acquisition changes everything for GamePass. Nintendo is stubborn and Sony can be too but there may be a point where it’s too good not to. This is the first step towards that imo.
This is early on though and GamePass is still in its infancy by Microsoft’s standards. A lot remains to be seen.
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That's about what i'd estimate for Starfield. Possibly 2022. TES 6 was made out to be something we wouldn't even be hearing about for a number of years so i could see that arriving around 2025 - 2026. With them now being part of Microsoft i wonder if that will change things at all and mean more resources to speed up development.
I'm not sure how it works but if i was Microsoft i'd want the next TES game to arrive sooner than 5 years from now. Especially considering the length of time between TES games.
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Avowed should fill the gap of Elder Scrolls..
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Yeah, as gamepass continues to improve and grow Sony and Nintendo would be foolish to keep it off their platforms. It will be just like another Netflix-like app, especially as their xCloud improves.
I really doubt M$ will stop at Zenimax/Bethesda. They have tons of cash they can part with.
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I've seen some speculation that TES could be dead as a series or at least comatose. If so then we need something to fill that void and i hope that Avowed is a worthy spiritual successor. There's also a game being worked on by the earlier developers of TES but i haven't heard much about it recently.
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not even sure I’m going to attempt to battle these bots. I’ll get mine once things calm down. Probably go for 3070 though.
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I still think they overpaid
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I think what's more likely, is that they create(or improve) their own platforms to compete, rather than fill Microsoft's pockets with any kind of partnership.
