Microsoft buys Bethesda for 7.5 billion.

[Wonderful Id]

First reported on by Jason Schreier and then confirmed by Bethesda themselves

https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1308028875759382528

This means that Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Wolfenstein, Dishonored, and a bunch more are now under Microsoft ownership. No idea what this means going forward in terms of platform exclusivity, but this is still kind of massive news.

That being said, you know Sony is going to have to respond somehow, and they don't put their games on PC as often. I have a feeling this is going to end with Sony buying either Square Enix or SEGA and both would really suck sadly.

 

[Rotollo]

Can't wait to see Banjo Kazooie in the creation engine
also Todd has spoken about it now

https://bethesda.net/en/article/4IwKWIj174Cb2QNTTtBAEb/todd-howard-on-joining-xbox

 

[Ruin]

With the exception of Eternal Bethesda has been really shitty for the last few years so new management is probably a good thing.

 

[SIGSEGV]

See that game? You can-
Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.

 

[Titos]

Jokes on the smashfags, Doomguy is getting into KI not Smash.

They better make a new KI or I will burn down Phil Spencer's house in minecraft

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

This calls for a new special edition of Skyrim.

 

[Aqua Panda]

I'll miss playing the base Elder Scrolls 6 on the ps5 for the vanilla run.

But as long as it still hits the PC for mod runs and tweaks, I'll be fine.

Kinda wondering if Fallout Online was a bigger disaster than originally thought. Seems really odd to sell themselves off right now.

Edit: I'd love Sony's response to be releasing all their remaining exclusives to PC.

 

[Not Really Here]

Can they just make Bethesda games work?

 

[Titos]

I'll miss playing the base Elder Scrolls 6 on the ps5 for the vanilla run.

But as long as it still hits the PC for mod runs and tweaks, I'll be fine.

Kinda wondering if Fallout Online was a bigger disaster than originally thought. Seems really odd to sell themselves off right now.

The owners have apparently been looking to sell for a long time, they're old as fuck and just want to not deal with that shit anymore.

 

[The Last Stand]

Can they just make Bethesda games work?

Hopefully with this money and backing, they can make more stable games.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

what the fuck

 

[The Last Stand]

what the fuck

Not really surprising since MS is buying studios left and right to compete with Sony.

 

[Miller]

Can they just make Bethesda games work?

I wish. Microsoft has 343i and they haven't been able to make a good game since day one.

 

[Hangula Hungui]

Oh Yeah, I‘m absolutely positive that this will work out great. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Can they just make Bethesda games work?

Microsoft is the reason Morrowind had as much jank as it did, since after bailing Bethesda out they got them to port it to the original Xbox.
In fact, all early Bethesda titles for the Xbox were fucked by that move, see Dark Corners of the Earth.

 

[Jack Awful]

Knowing Bethesda, MS is gonna have to employ fans to mod their devs into working correctly.

 

[Not Really Here]

Microsoft is the reason Morrowind had as much jank as it did, since after bailing Bethesda out they got them to port it to the original Xbox.
In fact, all early Bethesda titles for the Xbox were fucked by that move, see Dark Corners of the Earth.

I don't care at all about console trash.
Get a real computer.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

I am trying to figure out if this is good or bad; On one hand Bethesda has been going downhill and Microsoft is definitely better when you consider the alternatives are entities like Activision and EA, but on the other hand it would only take a few critically retarded corporate decisions to finish off Bethesda.

 

[Rotollo]

also just realised microsoft owns obsidian and bethesda now. New Vegas bros, are we home?

Oh Yeah, I‘m absolutely positive that this will work out great. What could possibly go wrong?
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At least they can use Vault Boy for all their terrible VR experiments instead of IPs people care about like Conker.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

I don't care at all about console trash.
Get a real computer.

The focus on console trash is why Bethesda games don't work.