Microsoft: Xbox Series S and X only next-gen consoles with full RDNA 2 feature set

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KratosLives said:

Pemalite said:

The fact that Xbox just gained all of Bethesda's I.P is actually making Xbox look extremely good.

But does it really? those bethesda games were expected to come as multiplats, and microsoft was lacking in the exclusives department, so even with the bethesda buyout, it needs to still prove itself and make more quality exclusives beyond halo and forza, and what ever 2 or 3 highly regarded AAA games that come from bethesda in the next 7 years. Even still i hightly doubt elder scrolls/starfield ( if it does release at all next gen) , or fallout 5 for that matter, will stay as xbox only exclusives.  There is alot to be made from licensing fees onto ps5, and the buyout was mainly to make gamepass more attractive, not necessarlity to lure ps5 players over. I expect them to release on ps5, if not day 1, then a year later, after they have made their money on xbox. 

Microsoft of the 9th gen is not the same as Microsoft of the 8th gen.
That much has been made evident by the explosive increase in developers they have built and acquired.

Since 2018 Microsoft has added:
* Ninja Theory. - Hellblade.

* Undead Labs. - State of Decay.

* Compulsion Games. - We happy few.

* Playground Games. - Forza Horizon, Fable. (Granted they always made Xbox exclusives anyway pretty much, so feel free to flick it off the list.)

* inXile Entertainment. - Wasteland.

* Obsidian Entertainment. - Pillars of Eternity, The Outer Worlds, Fallout: New Vegas, Dungeon Siege, KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2.

* Zenimax Media.
~Bethesda:
- Elderscrolls, Fallout, Starfield.

~Arkane Studios.
- Dishonored, Prey, Wolfenstein.

~ iD Software.
- Doom, Quake, Rage.

That is just in the last 2 years... And there have been hints of further purchases.

Add on the fact Microsoft also has ZeniMax Online Studios, Tanho Gameworks, MachineGames, RARE, Mojang, 343i, The Initiative, Double Fine Production, The Coalition, Turn 10 Studios.

And with it Microsoft has brought in technologies like iDTech game engine, Havok and more which gives it some interesting tech.

I think anyone who thinks Microsoft is going to enter the 9th gen "lacking exclusives" really hasn't been paying attention... It's because of that kind of criticism that Microsoft thrown around Billions of dollars buying up studios... And honestly, I kinda hope they do make them exclusive, it would be epic karma.