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Old 21-09-20, 15:07   #1
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Xbox-owner Microsoft has acquired the games company behind blockbuster titles including Doom, Fallout, Skyrim and Wolfenstein.

It is paying $7.5bn (£5.85bn) for Bethesda's parent ZeniMax Media.

Xbox has said that the publisher's franchises would be added to its Game Pass subscription package for consoles and PCs.

This could help make the forthcoming Xbox Series X more attractive than the PlayStation 5 to some players.

Both machines are due to launch in November.
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Old 21-09-20, 15:18   #2
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The game is on again, then. I wonder if that means future Bethesda game will be Xbox/PC exclusives...
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Old 21-09-20, 15:19   #3
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The game is on again, then. I wonder if that means future Bethesda game will be Xbox/PC exclusives...
I highly doubt Bethesda will willingly give up the cheese they make off of PlayStation and Switch players. What I've read suggests this is more to do with Game Pass than anything else.

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Old 21-09-20, 15:26   #4
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Yeah this is pretty insane. Sony charging $70 for first party games wheras you can get every game from these developers (past & future), in addition to all of Microsoft's current exclusives, for $15 with Gamepass.

I'm sure they'll raise the price but even something like $40 (Which it definitely won't be) would be a great deal considering the huge library you'd have access to.
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Old 21-09-20, 15:39   #5
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I highly doubt Bethesda will willingly give up the cheese they make off of PlayStation and Switch players. What I've read suggests this is more to do with Game Pass than anything else.
Bethesda get no say on what they release on now; they are owned by Microsoft.
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Old 21-09-20, 16:59   #6
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Just heard. Wow.
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Old 21-09-20, 17:03   #7
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This is quite shocking news. Never in a million years did I think that Microsoft could pull big moves like that. Indeed, what a fantastic purchase of a big publisher especially one at that price. I'll have to cancel my PS5 pre-order and get a Xbox Series X now.
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Old 21-09-20, 17:07   #8
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It's sad that Microsoft bought Bethesda. It would be awful if future Bethesda games (like Doom) were Xbox exclusives.
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Old 21-09-20, 17:10   #9
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It's sad that Microsoft bought Bethesda. It would be awful if future Bethesda games (like Doom) were Xbox exclusives.
Make no mistake, I suspect that MS will make most, if not all of Bethesda's games exclusive moving deep into the next generation. This is a big win for the company.
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Old 21-09-20, 17:26   #10
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What's funny is for the past few months, there've been rumors that Sony was trying to secure timed exclusivity for a huge, upcoming title. That title ended up being Starfield, which Microsoft now owns
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