Characters animation appart, which would really benefit from a massive overhaul in the engine, it did a great work in Starfield to present highly geometrically detailed world, with some serious textures resolution and good lightning.

I don’t really see why a change to UE5 would be so necessary. UE5 poorly optimized can be very crappy,

There’s so many pro’s and cons to this that its really difficult to choose which way they should go. See how ESVI goes. If its dated and they’re not gonna invest to evolve significantly/modernise the engine then probably change.

Unreal engine 5 isn't a catch all. Plenty of games are bad on Unreal Engine in general.

I agree that they need to leave creation engine but I don't agree that they have to go with unreal. Unreal engine can do very impressive image quality and "easy" to use but the last games built on that engine are very laggy and stuttery, and on top of that there's too many studios that are leaving their engines for unreal 5. I think that big studios should have their own engines because if every studio goes with ue5 games will start to look all the same, imo

They should do a better job whatever it is. But they won't.

Bethesda actually owns the ID tech engine which it seems can make good open world games. Why not use that instead of U5?

Bethesda really does need a new engine. I think they have done some insane things with it over the years, and it fit their needs well (if buggy as all hell). That said, I don't think it should be UE5.
The more and more I see it, the less I like it as an engine. I think they peaked at UE3 and it's been worse and worse since.

The Creation Engine needs to go, and your recommendation is freakin' UE5?

Imagine the amount of bugs and performance issues unreal 5 would give the developers. They can't even push out a smooth game from the start on an engine they've been using forever lol.

Before giving my oppinion i want to see the results of the witcher 4. If CD projekt can do better with UE5 than with REDengine than the same can go for Bethesda and Creation Engine...

Creation engine needed to go around 20 years ago.

The best option would be to create a new engine. Some Devs still don't know how problematic Unreal 5 features are.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau