Microsoft buys ZeniMax
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/21/welcoming-bethesda-to-the-xbox-family/
What are people's thoughts on this huge announcement today? Specifically, seems like people are already talking about the possibility of a F:NV2 game, and even Obsidian seems to be expressing interest on their official Twitter feed.
What are people's thoughts on this huge announcement today? Specifically, seems like people are already talking about the possibility of a F:NV2 game, and even Obsidian seems to be expressing interest on their official Twitter feed.
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It's also a savvy move by Microsoft a day before their new consoles go to preorder. Microsoft is learning from their mistakes from the last round of console wars and seem to be investing heavily (7.5 billion this time) in companies and IPs people have a devout following in.
As for where Microsoft takes these IPs is still up in the air, however, they do seem to be hands off with most of the developers they have already acquired.
In my opinion, full exclusivity needs to end in favor of timed exclusivity. That way everyone can eventually experience whatever game they want on whatever platform they want (while people impatient enough to wait will still buy multiple consoles to not have to wait). Microsoft seems far more likely to make this a reality than Sony so I wish them well. As long as I still get my games on PC, I’m happy.
You are right that Sony started this war. This is just Microsoft dropping a nuke in response. The only thing Sony could do to counter would be to buy Rockstar or Konami. Microsoft is WAY ahead of Sony in the transition to strictly digital game media with their Game Pass, and even if they do allow purchased copies of Bethesda games on PS5, all the "streaming" rights, so to speak, will remain on the Xbox.
This move by Microsoft kind of makes Sony have to decide if they are going to continue pushing exclusives or not. Sony may have more console exclusives but Microsoft has way more money and can keep buying studios unless Sony caves a bit on the exclusive front.
Anyway, a funny meme
Probably. Allegedly there was a game announced in 2019 by Zenimax Online.
Sony definitely fired the first salvo in the exclusivity wars, especially with stuff like the Spider-Man game for PS4. I just wonder now if both sides are going to double down on the exclusivity wars, or whether both sides agree to loosen up the agreements and allow their games to come out on the rival platform (my personal preference. I hate anybody gating good games of any kind behind specific platforms.)
I really don't think Spider-Man and Horizon can compete with The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Wolfenstein, and literally anything Obsidian makes from here on out. From a straight business standpoint, if I was Microsoft, I would LET the games EVENTUALLY be released on PS5, but I would absolutely lock them out for 3-6 months. As has been previously mentioned, Sony's entire strategy has been based on inferior hardware, but locking certain games to their system. I would not turn the other cheek if I was Microsoft.
Or even negotiate with soyny.
Eg - M$ will only port TES6 to P$5 if soyny ports demon souls remake to XBOX.
Anyway, What allowd M$ to enter in console market in the first place was RPG's like KOTOR, Fable and Morrowind. They owning so much RPG devs can make things very hard to soyny.
FWIW - I too hope the exclusivity wars end. Timed exclusives are obnoxious but tolerable - but the full exclusive bit should just end in its entirety.
Same for me. Timed exclusives are unpleasant, but tolerable. I'm currently waiting till March 2021 for FFVII-R's 1 year exclusivity period for the PS to end and it gets ported to other platforms.