At the very least I think MS should aim for 1 year timed console exclusivity on all future Bethesda/Zenimax games aside from Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo of course. Switch or Switch 2 day one releases would be ok since MS doesn't really compete with Nintendo, but they would be wise to keep Bethesda/Zenimax games off of Playstation for at least a year if they want to compete next gen in terms of hardware sales. 

It's crazy to me how MS has so many major WRPG studios and IPs now between Bethesda, Obsidian, inXile, and of course Playground rebooting Fable (which is among the bestselling WRPG franchises). The only major WRPG studios left that they don't own are Blizzard's Diablo team, Larian, CD Projekt, and Bioware (they don't own Bioware, but their future games will be on Gamepass Ultimate about 10 months after release through EA Play). Ubisoft's AC has grown increasingly WRPG recently though, and they also have the the studio that made the 2nd South Park RPG which will probably do a 3rd one next.

As a huge RPG fan, I love how much focus MS is putting on RPG's for their 1st party. Now they just need a JRPG dev and I will be quite happy. Just save Mistwalker from the mobile hell they are trapped in, and buy a 2nd JRPG studio to co-develop with Mistwalker since they are an incubation studio.

I've just updated my Goddamn XGS post and now there's rumours of at least 2 more acquisitions, please chill TF out Microsoft, holy shit.

Asobo seems likely, I was going to say they won't acquire another publisher but think about this, apparently this deal has been in the works for 2 years, now consider that they were trying to acquire WBIE whilst in the final stages of closing an acquisition with Bethesda...They were willing to drop $10bn+ on two publishers.

Agreed. I would like to see Bethesda Game Studios releasing like 5 games per generation instead of 2. They'll soon have 3 IP's on rotation assuming that Starfield is a big enough success to get sequels, if they can't speed up their output there will be generations where we don't even get 1 game each for Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Starfield. Staff up to main studio to like 300 devs, and the 3 satellite studios to like 150 devs each. That should be enough to handle simultaneous singleplayer development on all 3 IP's, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Starfield.