Bethesda and more particularly id software has always had a very long history of making games run on hardware it shouldn't doom should not be running on SNES yet it was.

Think about that doom 2016 should not be running on switch yet it was.

Do we really imagine Bethesda and id have ever thought let's just target one platform

Of course he would say that. What else could he say now?

It’s going to be interesting to see how all of this turns out.

But when the deal is finalize, MS will have the final say on where their future titles will land.

Like always with MS, it’s the waiting game.

It's so obvious Bethesda will still be self publishing. Can't believe people on here are setting themselfs up for utter dissapointment

Microsoft as a whole is a money maker. Now if you look at each individual division you see that things aren’t rosy everywhere. The games division is one of Microsoft’s weaknesses in the grand scheme of things. Sony doesn’t have its hands on as many products that print money as Microsoft but same deal. They have different divisions, music, pictures, phones, games, etc. Games is a major win in profits for Sony. That’s how and why companies get out of one part of a business that isn’t getting the returns expected. They shutdown a division. Adjust their numbers and forecast. Move on.

Microsoft as a whole footed the bill on buying Zenimax. I highly doubt the games division could afford it on its own. (Divisions work like their own companies) Someone in the Xbox Division came with a plan and showed the value they saw from Zenimax. No matter how much money MICROSOFT as a whole makes, that deal put the Xbox division and whoever had something to do with that under the gun. They WILL have to make it worth its cost. Don’t know what the timeframe on recouping the money was but it’s obviously years. These years will be very telling of you ask me. If they start with all games being Xbox exclusive and you start seeing games on PS later, they probably determined just Xbox wasn’t profitable enough. Especially if games are exclusive for years then almost at the end of the gen they start popping up with definitive editions on PS. If they go exclusive and stay exclusive for this gen AND make no announcement for PS6 support on next gen then someone is getting promoted and sales must be great.
If it stays the way it’s always been, but they cherry pick a few games from the catalogue to be exclusive then that was the plan all along to recoup the money.

Bottom line, that’s how business works. This money has to be payed back. It’s not about “can Microsoft afford it.” It’s about can the Xbox division pay Microsoft back when it says it will.

MS desperately needs games, so if they need to go exclusive they have my blessing.

The games will be on Xbox consoles, PC, Android and iOS devices. And by all likelihood on AppleTV, Chromecast and other smart-sticks including SmartTV's.

Bethesda games will be fine without PlayStation.

1000000xs the detail Tod. 76 is top shelf stuff...

That sounds sad for quality and scale on “next generation” games then

This guy.

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I think Microsoft should make all of Bethesda games exclusive to Xbox in my opinion. Competition is good for the industry and it will keep both companies on its toes. I would also like to see Sony develop it's own western RPG games to compete. I just find that more interesting. I would like to see Naughty Dog develop a RPG

I think people are overestimating MS' need to recoup cost on the acquisition.

They're a trillion dollar company. Going by current Gamepass subscription numbers, it will bring in multiple billions of revenue, per year, as is, with that number only going to grow, and well, going forward.

Tie series like Fallout, Elder Scrolls, or even those had under companies like Id and Arkane purely under the Microsoft brand - Xbox/PC - that's going to be a lot of consoles sold, games sold, Gamepass subs purchased, and thus revenue had.

If you're looking long(ish) term, the acquisition would pay for itself in just a few years; even without putting it on other platforms.

I get that if you're looking to go purely Playstation this gen, you're really hoping you'll still have access to Bethesda's library. I'm also for more games on more platforms, which is why I like Sony's newfound interest in the PC market. I just think people are banking a little too hard on the idea that MS needs to bring these games to PC to recoup cost, because they really don't.

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Microsoft and Bethesda have had deals on past Elder Scrolls titles which further leads me to believe future Bethesda titles will be console exclusives for microsoft because why spend 7.5 billion to keep things the way they already were. The only way The elder scrolls 6 appears on ps5 is if gamepass does.