Worth noting that Bethesda said the Oblivion remaster was made in 4 years. So it would've been immediately after the MS acquisition. Todd Howard has several times over the years, including pre-MS acquisition as far back as 2018, stated that he didn't want to remaster specifically Morrowind, but he followed up by saying any of their games in general.
So it seems like as soon the purchase went through, Phil went straight to Bethesda and told them to get working on remasters lol.

You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind







