Microsoft buys Bethesda for 7.5 billion.

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

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

Bethesda isn't a studio though, they're a publisher. A big one.

Here's a prediction and I'm betting a testicle on it*, ES6 and other games will launch on PS5 but they will be free on Xbox Game Pass. Ooooh, how's that for competition.

*you have to find me first

 

[Titos]

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.

The Xbox version of DCotE worked way better for me than the PC version. Don't know if that was just due to playing it on a shit tier laptop from 2005 though.
Also this opens up the opportunity for a Perfect Dark game by Arkane which is like a fucking perfect match imo.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Can we please get mod tools for Doom Eternal? Pretty please?

 

[WhoBusTank69]

The Xbox version of DCotE worked way better for me than the PC version. Don't know if that was just due to playing it on a shit tier laptop from 2005 though.

DCotE was made primarily for the Xbox and ported to PC where it has tons of issues, I fucked that comparison up.

 

[Absolutego]

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

More like "hopefully Microsoft forces them to use some shared organization their other game studios use for QA and purges the existing Bethesda testing infrastructure, since it's obviously dysfunctional".
Realistically that's the only thing that'll improve Bethesda games. Scrap most of the existing QA dept and start over.

 

[Not Really Here]

DCotE was made primarily for the Xbox and ported to PC where it has tons of issues, I fucked that comparison up.

Unless Microsoft were the ones who made the port you don't have a point.
It's still Bethesda being incompetent.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Can they just make Bethesda games work?

They can't even get Windows to just work.

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

They will end up like Bungie at best and like Rareware at worst.

With any luck the best aspect to come out of this is Bethesda games no longer being published on Playstation.

 

[le fishe]

Gonna guess bethesda won't exist in a decade or so. You can only play so many copy paste fucking RPG games that are all the same bullshit while being run by a big corporation until everyone just pisses off and plays a better game by some obscure eastern european studio.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

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.

Nah, Dark Corners wasn't even a Bethesda title and it had been in development by a separate studio for a long time and when announced in '98 they had insane claims like... realtime raytracing, among other things.

Look at those awesome/awful shadows.

The early trailers were really cool but the game turned out to be what it was and Bethesda was just the publisher after years in development hell.

Old CoC:

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Don't really care about the Bethesda part since they suck dick and won't fire Howard. Also people are getting hype for New Vegas 2 but Obsidian is shit too.

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

KI is one of my favorite fighting games so I'm right there with you.

 

[Hangula Hungui]

Gonna guess bethesda won't exist in a decade or so. You can only play so many copy paste fucking RPG games that are all the same bullshit while being run by a big corporation until everyone just pisses off and plays a better game by some obscure eastern european studio.

I‘m sure we‘ll see some layoffs soon or people leaving the Studios. Hell, Microsoft might even pull the plug on Fallout 76.
Specially for the next Fallout game, this could mean an improvement. I‘ll still be careful about any optimism though, seeing how they treated Rare for the longest time and what they did to Halo.

 

[Ruin]

I heard Fallout 76 being a financial disaster prompted this sale.

 

[The Last Stand]

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

I'm thinking they should add a Skyrim backdrop as a stage in Smash Bros.

 

[HeyYou]

I heard Fallout 76 being a financial disaster prompted this sale.

It's probably a bunch of things added up. For instance, the Prey reboot doing terribly, Legends being a money sink that they had to kill off, and Starfield taking ages to come out.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Nah, Dark Corners wasn't even a Bethesda title

Bethesda isn't a studio though, they're a publisher. A big one.

 

[Jolly Copulation]

Cautious optimism. Maybe Microsoft will whip them back into shape because that pile of shit called Fallout 76 was unplayable and that statement is coming from someone who enjoyed Fallout 4's mediocrity.

 

[The Cunting Death]

At least new vegas 2 has a better chance of happening

 

[Sigma]

I for one welcome our new evil corporate overlords

 

[Meat Target]

Gonna guess bethesda won't exist in a decade or so. You can only play so many copy paste fucking RPG games that are all the same bullshit while being run by a big corporation until everyone just pisses off and plays a better game by some obscure eastern european studio.

Because generic fantasy reskinned with figures from Snow Mexican fairy tales makes GOTY every year.