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Microsoft buying Zenimax

On second thought, make it 2K Games, and there will be mass firings at Sony. :o
 
The content of all the recently acquired studios prior to this is going to be exclusive apart from Minecraft I believe. I’m not sure what the point of buying them for 7.5B is otherwise.
Well MS did spend $2.5B for Minecraft alone and the IP is multiplat, so who knows...

Making those Bethesda IPs available on Sony's box would be very, very kind from Microsoft.

Agreed. Also Microsoft has a lot more money then Sony. A lot more. Like 20 times bigger.
Yeah MS has a net worth of about $1.6 trillion!
 
Well MS did spend $2.5B for Minecraft alone and the IP is multiplat, so who knows...

Making those Bethesda IPs available on Sony's box would be very, very kind from Microsoft.

Yeah MS has a net worth of about $1.6 trillion!
Man, I really underestimated that. :lmao:
 
Microsoft going Bane is kind of fun to think about... I guess I am a masochist. :o

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Also, it's no coincidence that MS dropped this megaton hammer of news on the eve of preorders going live.

MS WANTS to associate future Bethesda games with the Xbox brand. To give consumers another reason (and a big reason) to consider Xbox going into the new gen.

It kind of undercuts the significance of this news, and the incentive to go preorder the new Xbox consoles, if they come out and say that those future big games are still coming to PS5. If so, then what's the point of this deal?
I'm interested to see what playstation would do neXt. I never played any games from Bethesda because they are mostly first person games so its not a loss for me. And if I were Microsoft, I would not let the upcoming Bethesda games come to the playstation.

Hopefully Sony would drop the prices of the ps5 to counteract this merger.
 
I'm interested to see what playstation would do neXt. I never played any games from Bethesda because they are mostly first person games so its not a loss for me. And if I were Microsoft, I would not let the upcoming Bethesda games come to the playstation.

Hopefully Sony would drop the prices of the ps5 to counteract this merger.
I seriously doubt Sony will drop the prices of the PS5.
 
I seriously doubt Sony will drop the prices of the PS5.
Its a wishful thinking. But I think this merger and the XboX having a 299 console would lead to stronger sales for XboX's neXt gen in the long run and Sony should reconsider their plans. And I just wonder what Sony is thinking right now.
 
Its a wishful thinking. But I think this merger and the XboX having a 299 console would lead to stronger sales for XboX's neXt gen in the long run. And I just wonder what Sony is thinking right now.
Most likely, a major acquisition of their own or at least a major exclusivity deal.
 
Most likely, a major acquisition of their own or at least a major exclusivity deal.
Yeah but we don't know if there's any in the works and I doubt there is going to be a major acquisition anytime soon.

A ps5 price drop is something they can do now before November 10.
 
Well MS did spend $2.5B for Minecraft alone and the IP is multiplat, so who knows...

Making those Bethesda IPs available on Sony's box would be very, very kind from Microsoft.

Yeah MS has a net worth of about $1.6 trillion!
Minecraft is a different kind of title IMO.

Being kind could push the Xbox brand into oblivion. Sony were happy to take huge, long-standing multiplats like Street Fighter and Final Fantasy exclusive so the kindness is unlikely to be reciprocated.

Yeah, and more importantly than net worth, they have $137B in cash (second only to Apple).
 
Looking at their games.... Doom, Elder Scrolls and Fallout are huge gets. Business wise, I just don't see why Microsoft would let future games (which could be years away) of those and Starfield come to Playstation after this merger.

Ghostwire Tokyo and Deathloop are probably going to be released in ps5 as i can't imagine the ps5 port being canceled now but who knows. If Microsoft acquires Capcom, T2 Interactive or Ubisoft, I would be freaking out so much now. Hopefully that doesn't happen.
 
Looking at their games.... Doom, Elder Scrolls and Fallout are huge gets. Business wise, I just don't see why Microsoft would let future games (which could be years away) of those and Starfield come to Playstation after this merger.

Ghostwire Tokyo and Deathloop are probably going to be released in ps5 as i can't imagine the ps5 port being canceled now but who knows. If Microsoft acquires Capcom, T2 Interactive or Ubisoft, I would be freaking out so much now. Hopefully that doesn't happen.
Yeah, they’ve said that those two games will be honoured (which they should IMO).

They make more money directly by releasing games on all platforms but more Xbox sales and gamepass subs will if it’s exclusive.
 
Well, MS is already cozying up with EA by adding that EA service to Gamepass.

Now, if EA could sell Bioware to MS............
Yeah, adding EA Access to gamepass took me by surprise. It’s not something I would have ever paid for but a nice addition nonetheless. MS is seemingly doing everything they can to turn gamepass into Netflix, and that is probably an easier sell to the top execs when asking for funding.
 
Microsoft needs to go buy EA and Ubisoft and really make this a war. :hehe:

Honestly, I can see Microsoft playing nice with Nintendo.

[Laughs in Ori]

It is absolutely going to be on a case by case basis. You have to balance the lost income vs the potential of bringing in new customers. Some games, it will be worth it. Other times, it won't. I absolutely do not see Elder Scrolls being console exclusive.
 
[Laughs in Ori]

It is absolutely going to be on a case by case basis. You have to balance the lost income vs the potential of bringing in new customers. Some games, it will be worth it. Other times, it won't. I absolutely do not see Elder Scrolls being console exclusive.
Does it matter? By the time the next Elder Scrolls comes out, Globe Warming will have won. :(
 
[Laughs in Ori]

It is absolutely going to be on a case by case basis. You have to balance the lost income vs the potential of bringing in new customers. Some games, it will be worth it. Other times, it won't. I absolutely do not see Elder Scrolls being console exclusive.
The more valuable the game as an exclusive, the more money lost. It’s the same for Sony though surely with God of War, Uncharted, Horizon, Spider-man etc. How much income have they fire gone by keeping titles like those exclusive for years? On the list side though it has helped them dominate the console race and have a massive install base to sell digital products.
 
Honestly, this is more relevant to people who don't play on Xbox, for people that do, pretty much nothing changes for them. Can't say I'm really bothered, only franchise of theirs I give a damn about is ES, and by the time the next one comes out I'll have saved up for a new PC anyways, so I still get to not give two s***s about Xbox.
 

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