Machines games that develops wolfenstein would make a killer perfect dark game
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I honestly can’t see them making all the games going forward MS exclusives. I’m sure Bethesda’s games have made a lot of money on PS and other platforms.
Time will tell though, strangers things have happened.
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well ms is not adverse to having some of their franchises on other platforms, but im sure some will be kept to xbox/pc and maybe switch exclusivity.
Ms dont care about hardware sales (cause thats always sold at a loss), they care about software sales and subscription sales. Sony might sell more consoles but MS is raking in more money from their games.
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This
MS has changed their whole attitude to gaming from selling consoles to selling services. A repeatable business model where they can make much more money than selling consoles.
Also a quote from the Xbox announcement from their website:
“We will be adding Bethesda’s iconic franchises to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC.”
These games will be added to Game Pass. Both PC and Xbox versions of the service, so while some games might still go to Sony and Nintendo, they are far more concerned in getting people on Game Pass.
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We’ll see. Both Sony and Nintendo also sell a lot of software on top of dominating the hardware sales. Look at sales for Animal Crossing New Horizons and Ghost of Tsushima as an example.
Competition is good for the industry so I’m glad to see MS getting some more good studios under their umbrella.
Sony have said they don’t see a service like game pass as being sustainable for them which kind of sucks. I was hoping for a “PS Plus Pass” on PS5.
My ultimate goal is to have a PS5 and Xbox S/X and whatever Nintendo does next anyway.
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That’s kind of funny, because Dishonored 2 is just about to leave gamepass. I wonder if it will be re-added immediately.
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I guess so. Fallout 4 was also on Game Pass and then left.
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i purchased wolfenstein 2 after it left gamepass cause that game was so good
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Asking the real questions!
Sadly, odd as it is, the launcher probably won’t change or go away for a while I’d guess. There must be many people who own Bethesda titles who don’t have an Xbox account (if they even allow account linking to have your Bethesda titles available through Game Pass) or won’t want to link the two, or who don’t even have XGP.
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Hoping so, I hadn’t had time to get to that yet.
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Make sure you give it a whirl if it stays. Best current gen game in Bethesda stable IMO. I finished it 3 times and loved every second.
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A little late to this party, but this is huge!
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Another good thing is that I believe Microsoft will be pressuring BGW to get Starfield and Elder Scrolls VI out the door now…
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While everyone is pretty impressed by the “hugeness” of it all, it is worth noting that this is still a planned acquisition at this point. Due to the size and value of the deal and it’s potential impact on shareholders of both companies, an announcement in advance is warranted.
Microsoft Corp. said Monday it plans to acquire ZeniMax Media Inc., owner of the storied video-game publisher Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5 billion in cash, marking its biggest video game purchase ever.
Microsoft expects the deal to close in the second half of its fiscal year 2021, which ends June 30.
There’s still a lot of regulatory and anti-competition hurdles to get through before the “has bought” in the topic title becomes technically correct.
How this timeline will impact the addition of Bethesda titles to XGP and the like I’m not sure, but hopefully the “intercompany relationship building” will be evident to us pretty quickly.
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Also, if MS could just go ahead now and also please pick up Take-Two, and maybe CD Projekt Red too, that would be great.
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Fuck no that would be terrible.
I doubt CDPR would ever go for it. They are too consumer friendly.
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It seems in the wake of this news people seem to have forgotten how anti-consumer Bethesda has been of late. Look at Fallout 76 and the whole First Survivor nonsense as an example. Will this change under MS or did they see this as an opportunity to make some more money on the back of those practices? I am genuinely just curious to see what happens. Not trying to throw shade on MS because “Sony for life” or whatever. This sale does not affect me, I have a PC and the only current Bethesda game I want to play is Doom Eternal.
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I agree, if it aint broke don’t fix it.
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Whilst in the UK I read a very good opinion piece on how MS will probably lose the next Gen (PS5, XBX) console war in terms of sales, but going forward Microsoft has a long term plan to own the cloud gaming space.
Console sales apparently barely pull in any profit, it’s the subscription services which are the future for profits.
The prediction is that this might be the last console with a focus on its hardware, the future will be cloud gaming and MS has put themselves in a great position for the next era.
That being said, the timing of MS’s announcement is perfect. A lot of people have saved up to be the first to own a next Gen console, the uncertainty of whether Bethesda will release on PS or not could snag them a good couple of extra subscriptions along with console sales.
In my humble opinion, MS will not make all Bethesda games exclusive, maybe timed releases, but the profit from game sales is way to big to look away from. MS, looks at the bottom line and don’t care how they obtain that profit, but as long as the bottom line is healthy they happy.
If Bethesda becomes exclusive, at least you PS boys have Spider-Man and Ratchet and Clank.
(Sorry, after years of abuse from PS fan boys, that felt so good.)
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