Xbox acquires Bethesda

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EricHiggin said:

Intrinsic said:

They won't.

What has been announced so far will come to the platforms they were slated tocme to. But everything else, would be Xbox/PC exclusive. 

Or more specifically, gamepass exclusives. 

I won't say I saw it coming, but I will say I am not surprised in the least. This is exactly what MS needs to do to compete or to make GP viable. They obviously are lacking when it comes to having games to rival the best from sony/nintendo. This changes that.

What people should be worried about though, is what Sony would do about this. Sony would have to acquire certain studios too. If nothing else, from fear that if they don't MS would. 

Hence consolidation, its now not going to be enough to just have games on your platform, now, the war is going to be about making sure those games aren't on ay other platforms.

I agree for the most part. It's smart because GP needs it, and the marketing team picked the perfect time to announce it. Right after the SNY cross gen hypocrisy talk. At the very least, MS can now just say, 'we're both hypocrites, so what'? The news is big enough that'll get swept under the rug anyway.

MS and their, 'we don't like the idea of exclusives', and 'we just wanna play nice together', is now crystal clear not to be the case. Like anyone should have been 100% convinced it was, but MS have now leaped over the threshold. If SNY has been sitting back leisurely assuming MS wasn't going to make too many big moves, then they've now been put on notice and this no doubt means war.

SNY now knows that every worthy third party studio who is open to selling, whatever the price, is on MS's radar, and if they don't lock them down, MS likely eventually will. If you're SNY and one of your biggest draws is exclusives, you either need to stay well ahead of MS in this case, branch out in other ways, or offer something uniquely new. There was a SNY third party exclusivity rumor a while back that was this level, if not beyond.

Glad to see MS actually making waves, yet worried to see how SNY responds and where this leads in terms of potentially creating giant walls around once open gardens. This is the way the world seems to be headed as of late unfortunately.

This. I really do not understand how people don't see this. Sony will be forced to respond now, and the domino effect was set in motion. I don't think we have ever seen such a huge purchase from one console manufacturer before. Then Sony will buy some studios, then Nintendo, then MS again, and soon all the 3rd party games will be hidden behind a payment wall atop a payment wall. I do not like this, one bit.