Microsoft buys Bethesda for 7.5 billion.

Aberforth said:
None of the AAA Japanese companies are likely to get bought out by Sony. A lot of these companies also do pachinko machines.
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It also makes no sense for them to buy a Japanese company...

TurkishOreo said:
I´m saying that Bethesda most likely isn´t worth 7,5 billion.
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The other Zenimax parts are wort way more than bethesda.

Sony and m$ have now a deal to keep deathloop exclusive to the PS5...

We could see the first good halo in the future, with those new fps studios under the m$ umbrella....

Chin of Campbell said:
imagine playing a bethesda game that isn't doom lol
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Wolfenstein is fun
 
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rotollo said:
also just realised microsoft owns obsidian and bethesda now. New Vegas bros, are we home?

At least they can use Vault Boy for all their terrible VR experiments instead of IPs people care about like Conker.
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Nah another Fallout like New Vegas isn't happening.

All the people that made New Vegas what it was aren't at Obsidian and even if they were some of those people (Cuck Avellone especially) have changed for the worse.
 
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Get_your_kicks_with_30-06 said:
Nah another Fallout like New Vegas isn't happening.

All the people that made New Vegas what it was aren't at Obsidian and even if they were some of those people (Cuck Avellone especially) have changed for the worse.
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That´s especially true in this current political climate and people being thinskinned.
It´s like seeing some of the old videos of YGOTAS and seeing the description changed into saying he condones the gay/trans jokes now.
 
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Vault Boy said:
I genuinely thought this was some crazy April Fools Day joke when I first heard of this, 2020 has been crazy after all.

I suppose I feel more vindicated about getting a Series X, and getting all those games on GamePass will be pretty cool.
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Well Sony did fuckup their preorders, again and TLOU2 shouldn´t have existed in that state.
It´s truly gonna be Microsoft´s console generation this year
 
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XMassAllYearRound said:
I support this theory. There's a player here that I cannot find any information about in all of this: Providence Equity Partners; They're a private equity firm that owns roughly 25% of Zenimax, has been pumping millions into them since at least 2007 and has been trying to get rid of their stocks and sell the company since 2016.
Rumor goes Fallout 76 was their idea as a method to encite possible buyers with a Live-Service money-making machine.

I speculate that this didn't pan out like they thought it would and probably had to sell the company for less than they expected once the company stagnated and started costing them more money than they were producing with the development of ES6 and Starfield.
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tldr zenimax has wanted to go public for years and i assume they wanted to do this through providence equity - obviously it didn't fucking happen and now that robert trump and presumably les moonves aren't involved with the company anymore, i'm assuming altman felt like cashing out and selling their (nonexistent) souls to microsoft was the best option? i don't know what to think anymore

zenimax has always been owned and operated by elitist suit-happy jewish lawyers, bankers and execs so trying to discern anything they do as someone who isn't a member of the 1% is absolutely fucking impossible. this deal is going to be a complete and utter clusterfuck. i will say it's funny they decided to merge with one of the megacorps that's been pushing games as a service the hardest

carmack seems to be happy at least
 
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tehpope said:
Is Sony in a position to pull off a major acquisition? I mean I can see them buying Konami so they own MGS, Contra, and Castlevania. Or just buy the rights to those franchises. I don't if Kojima even has anything left to say for MGS, other than maybe finishing up MGS5 proper.
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Sony just purchased Insomniac last year specifically for spider man and they bought up a few mid range japanese developers.

If they buy Sega then that means we've lived long enough to see Sega vs nintendo again.
 
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StyrofoamFridge said:
Microsoft also owns Obsidian now plus Bethesda... You know what that means? Maybe, just maybe, we'll get something as in-depth as New Vegas and not a shallow puddle like Fallout 4!
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I’m not going to be optimistic about a damn thing until they fire Todd Howard.
 
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After Outer Worlds why would anyone even want a New Vegas 2 by nuObsidian.

I can picture New Vegas itself as made by the current 'talent' at Obsidian:
- House would probably just be a raving lunatic with a female assistant that actually does everything.
- The Legion would be shown to eventually fail not because it's a cult of personality held together by Caesar alone but because they mistreat women.
- The NCR would be shown to be completely incompetent because "lol governments r dum" (i.e. the same nuance they showed with corporations in Outer Worlds).
- Every instance of seduction, prostitution, or rape would be scrubbed from the game.
- Arcade and Veronica being gay wouldn't just be something you pick up on due to a few lines of dialogue but would instead be their entire personalities and quests.
 
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