Gaming Microsoft buys Zenimax | 9th March: Bethesda games officially joins Microsoft. Unlucky Afro.
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Well playing Fallout and TES was fun while it lasted.
Big acquisition. Elder Scrolls on Xbox would be a definite purchase.
Think they will continue to do that. I can see new IP being xbox only - but established franchises still being on PS.
Look at Minecraft. They will want all of the money to recoup the cost of purchase! At least for a while...
You are 50% correct there.
Goddammit I hope this doesn't affect Fallout and Elder Scrolls on Playstation
Nah, I think they will put them on Xbox and PC. Xbox has lacked exclusive games for people to buy one. But now it’s got a whole big reason to buy one or gamepass.
Skyrim is easily my most played game and I just love the elder scrolls series so will be pretty gutted if it’s only on Xbox but then again Microsoft would have done what they needed too as I’d deffo get one.
Wow. That is fecking huge.
Could never get into Fallout
Thought Spencer didn’t believe in exclusives?
Fallout 3 and New Vegas are two of my faves. Fallout 4 was a bag of shit.
At one stage I may have felt the same but I am not sure the new tes will manage to keep up with other open world games. The last fallout was woeful.
That's insane.
Played a ton of Skyrim but it's such a dead world that I don't really care if follow-ups aren't on PS. Really love Dishonored though, so will be slightly gutted about that.
Can’t remember which one I tried but just found it very ‘meh’ and never had any inclination to go back to it. Will look into the two you mention.
I thought Fallout 4 was good. I agree Vegas (The best) and 3 were better, but I think 4 got a lot of stick, especially due to certain elements, like speech, but it was still a good game to play.
Fallout doesn’t come close to Tes anyway for me controversially so I still think it will be in a league of its own. Bethesda for their many many faults are still excellent when it comes to world building and they will know that they have to deliver big on the next scrolls.
Can see them being timed exclusives perhaps - and certainly on Game Pass for 'free' as Phil has said - but not excluding Playstation completely. They paid over 2 billion for Minecraft but kept it multi platform. No way are they spending 7 billion and then not keeping it multi platform either - they don't exactly need the money - but they aren't going to throw it away either.
In a few years though? Yeah then they will go exclsuive.
You need to mod the living hell out of it.
Yeah the games that are nearly finished they will be on PS5. But future games, I just don’t see it. It’s MS biggest chance to get PS5 users to buy one of their consoles or gamepass.
Damn, if they do keep them PC/XBOX only then that's really good for them and bad for Sony.
That’s big. TES is the kind of game to influence which console people buy. Fallout, Doom, Dishonoured etc aren’t quite that big, but are definitely games that’ll significantly enhance Microsoft’s lacklustre first party line up.
I hope we're not headed towards a future when every game is owned by either Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, or EA. The first three will push for platform exclusives all the time while EA are... well, they're EA, I don't have to explain this, do I?
Looking forward to the return of Games for Windows Live ™
Same. I think it’s because I played it after Skyrim and it just felt like I was playing Skyrim with a different skin.
Absolutely huge news.
If that was the case they'd come out and say that - they are being elusive on purpose.
RIP to the "play Skyrim on every device memes". Huge deal though, wonder if will make some reconsider their PS5 pre-orders?
This would have been more impactful a decade a go. Bethesda have been shit since Skyrim, DOOM notwithstanding.
Exclusives suck but I hope it prompts more competition resulting in better games.
Not now as next elder scrolls and Starfield are a while off. By that time, Series X will have dropped price.
Has a Disney buying fox feel to it, not sure it’s good for the industry but we’ll see.
Nothing is as bad as Disney buying anything.
Fallout is every bit as big as Elder Scrolls; Fallout 4 broke all sorts of records and initially sold better than Skyrim did.
Of course, Bethesda wasted a lot of that hype and goodwill with Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 being less than stellar.
Bugthesda never had anything proper fun anyway.
I do hope they start producing some quality stuff for next gen though, especially as it will come to pc anyway.
I do hope they start producing some quality stuff for next gen though, especially as it will come to pc anyway.
It’s bad for consumers, like all exclusivity. But feck it, I’ve heard enough from the PS spiceboys over the years about their exclusives. I hope they don’t get a sniff
