PC doesn’t help me hugely either to be honest.
Gaming Microsoft buys Zenimax | 9th March: Bethesda games officially joins Microsoft. Unlucky Afro.
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Yeah true. As I’ve always said though, it’s about the games, and this is clearly a big step for MS and should certainly lead to their console being more attractive for gamers.
Or, you could just get a cheap streaming stick in a few years and do a gamepass sub.
The only reason a stick is needed is to bluetooth a controller else you could probably just play it on your smart tv. Streaming is already available to android, and will be iOS if they can come to a deal. Won't be long until any laptop can stream via browser I expect.
For those who don't want to fork out for an xbox console, this will be the alternative and MS will be more than happy with that.
That goes without saying, really. Par for the course.
Xbox has been very pro consumer in their gaming division last 5 years or so. Obviously it has the ultimate goal of driving revenue but it's still a win/win situation.
Understand the concerns but just saying - MS has been leading on a number of pro-consumer initiatives (gamepass, backwards compat (devices too, not just games), accessibility, smart delivery, putting exclusives on PC) in recent years and it's worked well for them, so personally I'm not too concerned.
If they go down the exclusive route, they'll still be available on PC. And, anybody who doesnt have xbox/PC will be able to stream them through phone / tv / tablet app, a streaming stick or browser.
Understand the concerns but just saying - MS has been leading on a number of pro-consumer initiatives (gamepass, backwards compat (devices too, not just games), accessibility, smart delivery, putting exclusives on PC) in recent years and it's worked well for them, so personally I'm not too concerned.
If they go down the exclusive route, they'll still be available on PC. And, anybody who doesnt have xbox/PC will be able to stream them through phone / tv / tablet app, a streaming stick or browser.
Sony started it
Do we even know anything about Starfield? It’s a complete waste of time for me, just get the new Elder Scrolls out you fools.
@esmufc07 why you spreading hope to Sony fans on Twitter that they could buy take two? Take two are worth nearly three times as much as Zenimax. Sony do not have that money lying around. It would bankrupt them.
Microsoft aren’t fecking about.
The one thing they’ve been accused of is lack of first party games but they’ve been buying studios for fun in the past 2 years to put that right.
The one thing they’ve been accused of is lack of first party games but they’ve been buying studios for fun in the past 2 years to put that right.
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was one of those games that changed everything for me, in terms of gaming. Me and my cousin would do our paper-round, read and talk about the football news from the paper (that's how I found out about Nani, Anderson and Hargreaves!), and discuss what we would do on Oblivion (we'd then get home and put our headsets on). Good fecking times.
Well.. technically Nintendo did, but sure.
Time to get Xbox also I guess. Bojan will be pleased.
That's some hilarious big dick energy "Signing up timed exclusives with Bethesda eh? Well just sign up Bethesda!"
It makes me chortle anyway.
It makes me chortle anyway.
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So big names probably won’t be on other consoles. But smaller titles might.
I think it would be other way around. But if Starfield and Elder Scrolls are exclusive then Xbox will go from having no games to potentially two of best games of next generation. Hopefully prices will be down by that time so that buying multiple console is justified.
Surely it's the opposite?
I'm not too sure about Bethesda, might be like a poisoned chalice. Id and Arkane are fine studios of course. Not too familiar with the other ones.
Based on Xbox consumer friendly movement I think Elder Scrolls 6 will be on as many devices possible however I think Starfield will be an exclusive and I think that’s fair game as it’s a new title.
Don’t see it. New IPs that are smaller probably will be multi platform. Big hitters no chance. They aren’t spending 7 billion to be multi platform.
Even if they gave PS Fallout and Elder Scrolls, I reckon it'd be timed on Xbox first
Depends. They can make a lot of money on Elder Scrolls / Fallout by having it multi plat. It could still have timed Xbox exclusivity, additional DLC / characters, and day 1 gamepass (vs £70 PS5).
I think Phil will hope to have it as Xbox/PC only but he might have needed to compromise to help unlock this investment.
They should allow them on the PS, but all protagonist be Master Chief no matter the game 
I never got what was so great about TES. I Played TES V and found the game really bland and generic. Loved Fallout 3 but really couldn't get into fallout 4 so, I'm not to bothered by this acquisition alone but this really isn't a good trend if both sides continue gobbling up studios as it is really stupid to spend so much time to create a game just to market it to half the possible potential audience.
If both sides are not getting these studios, amazon or google will be buying them. Do you really want games on Stadia only? Or Amazon can sit on them and release nothing.
Which is basically what I said! And also been confirmed by Jason:
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Arguably Xbox are opening it up to everybody, a bigger market than before, as they plan to stream to any and every device that is willing and capable. Console / PC isn't a barrier if you can get it by streaming to your phone, a chromecast (equivalent), a TV app (when they figure a controller solution) or a laptop browser.
Let's be honest this is shite news if you are looking to go PS5 only this gen.
Personally don't care about Doom, Wolfenstein and the like but Fallout and TES being Xbox exclusives is a massive pain in the arse.
Personally don't care about Doom, Wolfenstein and the like but Fallout and TES being Xbox exclusives is a massive pain in the arse.
Shrewd move by MS. I've gone from having zero interest in buying an Xbox to being 99% sure I'll get one if they make TES, Starfield and Fallout exclusives, all in the space of a tweet.
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Always played Bethesda games on PC when I can due to mods so even if it's Microsoft exclusive then I'll be happy enough.
MS aren't fecking aren't though, which is good to see.
MS aren't fecking aren't though, which is good to see.
Seven billion? That's insane
shows how worried and desperate MS are.
Wow, this could actually be pretty big if Bethesda had made a decent RPG in the last 10 years. Thank god CD Projekt has made them irrelevant. Makes me think I'm going to need to upgrade my PC as well as getting a PS5 now, not enough to tempt me to get an Xbox unfortunately.
Surprised they didn't just buy all of Sony Corp
..."Case by case basis" just means that ESO and Fallout 76 will stay. All other future games are just Xbox/PC exclusive.
Yeah. Makes sense to put the micro transaction filled games on many platforms as possible.
It seems we have some PS fans who suddenly don't like exclusives.
Bit weird
Bit weird