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    Microsoft to buy ZeniMax Media (Bethesda parent) for $7.5 billion

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by saturnotaku, Sep 21, 2020.

  1. saturnotaku

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    Sony just lost the PS5 v XSX war before launch.

    ...I think this fits right in.

     
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    oooooh this does not bode well for sony
     
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    Was a bit surprised when I saw that news this morning, yeah not great for Sony. Hopefully good news for ES6 and Starfield. It's interesting both Bethesda and Obsidian are under MS umbrella now. Lol.
     
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    Yes! There's now hope for a proper Fallout game once again!

    I bet Microsoft bought Obsidian and asked them to do a new Fallout game, to which their replied that they can't as all rights belong to Zenimax/Bethesda. Next thing you know MS went shopping...
     
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    It seems like MS had this bunch of cash available to buy tiktok, this was it's plan B. Interesting is MS games are usually great games
     
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    yeah except design choices with halo...they told everyone they wanted the old look of halo for infinite aka bad colorful graphics...sigh meanwhile me and everyone else were expecting photorealism 4k 120
     
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    Wondering which games will be gamepass exclusives now.. probably all of them
     
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    Sony fanboys are big mad right now.
     
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    I hope Microsoft does a better job with this acquisition than they did with Rare.

    Honestly I'm not excited about this. It means less competition and less developer independence. I'm hoping for the best, though.
     
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    John Carmack approves.

    Screen Shot 2020-09-21 at 3.20.02 PM.png
     
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    people are already saying all bestheda games are exclusive to xbox.....this is not good for sony...fallout 5 xbox exclusive = sony dies the slow kinda death
     
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    Not to mention Elder Scrolls 6 even though it's a ways off, that's probably more anticipated in general.
     
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    iv'e never tried elder scrolls is it like fallout? rpg?
     
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    Grab Skyrim: EE on a sale. It's pretty much Fallout 3/4 but fantasy setting.
     
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    I would be surprised if es6 was a xbox exclusive. Maybe some other games further in the future but this seems to close to exclude such a large portion of the market

    Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk
     
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    Yeah it would engender good will to also release on PS5 and maybe whatever nintendo has when it releases in 2024
     
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