Microsoft acquires Bethesda/Zenimax

[Perkel]

You have PCSX2 emulator, so why would you EVER wanted to have a port of P3 FES to PC?

To avoid bugs ? To lower requirements ? To enhance them ? etc ?

 

[Oracsbox]

If Microsoft fire Hines and his midget lover it will all have been worthwhile.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

Obsidian gets to make another Sonic RPG from the looks of things lol.
Wow crazy Sonic coming full circle and becoming an Xbox Mascot like he was always supposed to.
Funny Sega was supposed to be the dominant ones in that relationship and now its the other way around.

 

[Turisas]

If Microsoft fire Hines and his midget lover it will all have been worthwhile.

Emil needs to go before Todd.

 

[Oracsbox]

If Microsoft fire Hines and his midget lover it will all have been worthwhile.

Emil needs to go before Todd.

Preferably all 3

 

[Immortal]

If Microsoft fire Hines and his midget lover it will all have been worthwhile.

Emil needs to go before Todd.

Preferably all 3

Fire Hines & Emil, then Todd should get Pete Hines job - way better at shilling without all the sass on twitter.

 

[fantadomat]

Microsoft is going very aggressive in the game market. It seems that they decided to ignore their squabble with sony and go after the big picture lol. The whole focus on console garbage was really stupid shit from microsoft,they should have gone and dominated the pc market a decade ago,could have even ripped steam a new asshole lol.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

 

[Don Peste]

I wonder why Fargo hasn't been able to convince them to buy Interplay yet. It can't be that many millions for a bunch of dead IPs.

 

[LESS T_T]

Satya Nadella wants more video game companies: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-microsofts-ceo-xbox-head-say-they-wont-screw-up-bethesda/

What's driven him is a belief that interactive entertainment will be a key technology in the next 10 years and that gamers who use Microsoft products expect the company to make titles like those made by the studios he's bought.

"You can't wake up one day and say, 'Let me build a game studio,'" Nadella said in an interview after the company announced its $7.5 billion cash purchase of ZeniMax Media, which owns several industry-leading game developers, including Bethesda Softworks and Id Software. "The idea of having content is so we can reach larger communities."

That's why Microsoft will consider buying even more video game companies in the future, he said, and why it continues to invest in its Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

"Content is just the incredible ingredient to our platform that we continue to invest in," Xbox head Phil Spencer said in that same interview. "This doubles the size of our creative organization."

Microsoft's purchases mark the most dramatic ways the company is looking to build up its Xbox brand. They also give the company more games to field in what's increasingly become a hits-driven business.

"This is a huge investment in games that they're going to get to play," he said.

Spencer also said Bethesda will run semi-independently, in an effort to keep the company building the games that brought it success in the first place. "It is about the culture of those teams," he said. "They're not about becoming us."

It's also why game companies will continue to be on Microsoft's radar. "We'll always look for places where there is that commonality of purpose, mission and culture," Nadella said, noting that the Xbox team has worked with ZeniMax companies including Bethesda since the first Xbox was released in 2001. "We will always look to grow inorganically where it makes sense."

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

I not gonna lie.. If Microsoft buying Sega (and by extention Atlus) meant port for SMT/Persona games from ps2 (or even.. P5) era for PC , i i don't think i would disliking that happening.

Microsoft buying Sega is what they were going to do back when they got into the console market. Outside of Yakuza and Virtua Fighter not showing up on Xbox, the system may as well have been Dreamcast 2 with all the Sega stuff that on it. It's too bad they didn't buy them too, because shortly after that Sammy bought them up, (they'd take over the next year) studios got merged into oblivion, a bunch of their talent left, and they sold off their 2K sports division to Take-Two.

If it's true ok, but it could just be bullshit playing on the fact Microsoft has thought of buying them in the past. Microsoft has seemed to establish a relationship with them again, showing off Yakuza Like A Dragon at one of their events as a next gen game.

 

[Tehdagah]

Satya Nadella wants more video game companies: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-microsofts-ceo-xbox-head-say-they-wont-screw-up-bethesda/

What's driven him is a belief that interactive entertainment will be a key technology in the next 10 years and that gamers who use Microsoft products expect the company to make titles like those made by the studios he's bought.

"You can't wake up one day and say, 'Let me build a game studio,'" Nadella said in an interview after the company announced its $7.5 billion cash purchase of ZeniMax Media, which owns several industry-leading game developers, including Bethesda Softworks and Id Software. "The idea of having content is so we can reach larger communities."

That's why Microsoft will consider buying even more video game companies in the future, he said, and why it continues to invest in its Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

"Content is just the incredible ingredient to our platform that we continue to invest in," Xbox head Phil Spencer said in that same interview. "This doubles the size of our creative organization."

Microsoft's purchases mark the most dramatic ways the company is looking to build up its Xbox brand. They also give the company more games to field in what's increasingly become a hits-driven business.

"This is a huge investment in games that they're going to get to play," he said.

Spencer also said Bethesda will run semi-independently, in an effort to keep the company building the games that brought it success in the first place. "It is about the culture of those teams," he said. "They're not about becoming us."

It's also why game companies will continue to be on Microsoft's radar. "We'll always look for places where there is that commonality of purpose, mission and culture," Nadella said, noting that the Xbox team has worked with ZeniMax companies including Bethesda since the first Xbox was released in 2001. "We will always look to grow inorganically where it makes sense."

Same talk as when Disney engulfed Fox, "content". Hmmm

 

[Roguey]

Steam has removed portions of games though. Especially music, for licensing shenanigans.

There's a way to revert to an earlier version so you can still get to listen to those songs. Lot of annoying effort to have to go through though.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

We've been in the age of content since like 2011 or 2012 when streaming became Netflix's main business, and it was clear that'd be the future. It's actually a bit surprising it's taken the movie studios this long to really get into the streaming game as opposed to their weird shared deal with Hulu, and that Disney made the monumentally stupid move of selling off Miramax. Now it's about own img content, having tons and tons of content so your subscription service is filled out.

Buying Sega sure would give Microsoft a ton of content. Every arcade game they ever made outside of some licensed stuff like Jurassic Park and Star Wars Arcade, multiple generations of consoles where they producing a large number of games, everything they did post Dreamcast. That would be a whole hell of a lot of content.

 

[fantadomat]

Buying Sega sure would give Microsoft a ton of content. Every arcade game they ever made outside of some licensed stuff like Jurassic Park and Star Wars Arcade, multiple generations of consoles where they producing a large number of games, everything they did post Dreamcast. That would be a whole hell of a lot of content.

The world has long moved past this console garbage.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Buying Sega sure would give Microsoft a ton of content. Every arcade game they ever made outside of some licensed stuff like Jurassic Park and Star Wars Arcade, multiple generations of consoles where they producing a large number of games, everything they did post Dreamcast. That would be a whole hell of a lot of content.

The world has long moved past this console garbage.

Which world are you living it? Not the one where Disney, Warner Bros., and Paramount all have their own personal Netflix now. If you didn't think that kind of subscription was also where video games would be going you either aren't living in the real world, haven't been paying attention to the last decade of what's been happening with video games and movies, or are just blissfully unaware of shit. The world didn't move past it, it's just now moving into it.

You may not like where it's going, but that's not stopping shit from going that way.

 

[fantadomat]

Buying Sega sure would give Microsoft a ton of content. Every arcade game they ever made outside of some licensed stuff like Jurassic Park and Star Wars Arcade, multiple generations of consoles where they producing a large number of games, everything they did post Dreamcast. That would be a whole hell of a lot of content.

The world has long moved past this console garbage.

Which world are you living it? Not the one where Disney, Warner Bros., and Paramount all have their own personal Netflix now. If you didn't think that kind of subscription was also where video games would be going you either aren't living in the real world, haven't been paying attention to the last decade of what's been happening with video games and movies, or are just blissfully unaware of shit. The world didn't move past it, it's just now moving into it.

You may not like where it's going, but that's not stopping shit from going that way.

Yeah,i am sure that the world is trembling with expectation for the remake of some 32bit shitty console game. Grow up,only serial killer authists are play such games lol. People don't care about obsolete consoles from 30 years ago lol.

 

[DalekFlay]

I don't think Sega fits the MS style and brand. As their CEO said above, they're buying stuff that fits what is seen as the Xbox type of game... Western action RPGs, FPS games, etc. I mean I'm not a console guy so maybe I'm making that up, but when I think of Xbox exclusives from all generations that kind of stuff is what comes to mind.

 

[LESS T_T]

It fits probably because. It can complement where MS is severely lacking (Japanese games, JRPGs, Japanese and Asian market [where Xbox has been utterly failed at]) and bolster where one of the areas MS is striving for (PC games with long playtime like Football Manager and Total War).

SEGA is interesting. It was once a console manufacturer that old console gamers from both Asia and West fondly remember. And unlike other big Japanese publishers that are mostly specialized in certain genres, it's established (although not as specialized) in a wide range of genres. Also it has Sonic, one of the most iconic characters in video games.

Again, I have doubts about acquisition, but a big partnership like second party treatment (timed or permeant exclusives and simultaneous GamePass release for many titles) and SEGA branded Xbox in Japan wouldn't be surprising.

 

[DalekFlay]

It fits probably because. It can complement where MS is severely lacking (Japanese games, JRPGs, Japanese and Asian market [where Xbox has been utterly failed at])

Yeah but they've gone that route before and gotten nowhere, and I'm pretty sure they're on record as saying they basically gave up. The CEO says directly above they're bolstering what people associate with Xbox, I think Sega would be a massive waste of money.

 

[Wunderbar]

The CEO says directly above they're bolstering what people associate with Xbox, I think Sega would be a massive waste of money.

the only things i associate with xbox are boring dudebro shooters like halo and gears of war. Tbh i don't think bolstering that gives them anything worthwhile.

Sega, on the other hand...

 

[DalekFlay]

I mean, their CEO literally said what I'm saying in that quote. If you want to argue Sega fits their usual brand then fine, but arguing they're looking to expand what they're known for is literally arguing against what the CEO just said they're doing.

 

[Wunderbar]

Plot twist - they are buying sega because they want to make a sequel to Binary Domain.

 

[Shitty Kitty]

Yeah,i am sure that the world is trembling with expectation for the remake of some 32bit shitty console game. Grow up,only serial killer authists are play such games lol. People don't care about obsolete consoles from 30 years ago lol.

lot of fucking cope over not getting a NES for Christmas there

 

[LESS T_T]

It fits probably because. It can complement where MS is severely lacking (Japanese games, JRPGs, Japanese and Asian market [where Xbox has been utterly failed at])

Yeah but they've gone that route before and gotten nowhere, and I'm pretty sure they're on record as saying they basically gave up. The CEO says directly above they're bolstering what people associate with Xbox, I think Sega would be a massive waste of money.

Xbox will be the premiere show in Tokyo Game Show's livestream schedule. Whether it will be about SEGA or not, they didn't give up. Also I don't really see what he's saying is about keeping Xbox in specific genres.