My thought was actually, time for a new Fallout Tactics (instead of a gears one).
Also after Fallout 76, things can only go upwards for fallout games.

Sony is not nearly as rich as Microsoft though... But in saying that Sony does have 30~ billion dollars sitting in the bank... And money sitting in a bank doesn't make investors happy if that money can be invested to accrue larger profits.

I would not be surprised if Sony throws around 10 or so billion in acquisitions.

In an acquisition war... Microsoft will obviously come out on top, they have a market cap of 1.5~ trillion dollars which is absolutely bonkers... That gives Microsoft a ton of room to acquire large loans/finance and issue stock on top of the already 130~ billion they have in the bank.

To put Microsoft market cap in perspective... In country terms that would put Microsoft as the 13th wealthiest nation in the world.

To be fair... Microsoft had Doom+Elderscrolls as a console exclusive during the 6th gen and the PS2 still dominated...

Yes, so all that you proved me is the fact that Sony actually worked on maintaining a good relationship with 3rd parties while Nintendo decided not to, hence the result that stilkl can be felt a quarter century later. Nintendo was taking massive chunks as royalties, and Sony decided not to do this. Nintendoi taught that they were the only 800 pund gorilla in the ring (let me see if this rings a bell) and they failed misserably.

Nintendo was also notorios about signing only exclusive deals with 3rd parties during the SNES era. This is also a very well documented fact, reason why Sega often got tthe shitty versions of games or no games at all.

The fact was that Sony managed to cut the price of the PS2 for one simple reason: they were selling shitloads and they could afford it. Also, because of their gaming library, even at a higher price/lower specs they destroyed the competition. I would simply say bravo to that.

All in all, I could agree that your memory is fairly intact, though the way you analize them leaves a whole lot to be desired.

First point: You are absolutely right, but Gamepass makes it cheaper for me to jump in. I'm not sure I would give these franchises a try otherwise.

Second point: I agree and as I said I don't want this to turn into an acquisition war and for the gaming industry to go the way of the video-streaming services. But the double-standard argument still stands: There is a thread on the main page right now about people on Twitter asking Sony to buy Konami as a response to Microsoft's move.

Sony did the exact same thing as Microsoft does now when they entered the gaming market with the PS1 and later with the PS3 when that console didn't sell well: They literally poured billions of dollars into the project and Nintendo couldn't compete until they used disruptive technology and the blue ocean strategy with the Wii and DS. Microsoft is doing the same thing, it's just that these days you want publishers to be represented on your service exclusively and the days of losing billions of dollars on hardware are over. Is it bad for the gaming industry? It could very well be in the near future, yes. Is it "unfair" because Microsoft is buying a whole publisher instead of "just" a bunch of studios, therefore Sony is the good guy? No. In fact, I think this is just a token argument because Sony hasn't done it so far. If Sony did it first the same people who now condemn the move would shout from the rooftops how genius Sony is. And vice versa - I'm not claiming Microsoft or Nintendo fans are any better (except, of course, Nintendo fans are the greatest ) 

Guess Microsoft is maintaining a very good relationship with Bethesda  

Imo Microsoft buying studios and gaming companies is better than Sony or Nintendo doing it since Microsoft is full on Gamepass = PC version. It wont be exclusive to 1 device. 

Yeah Xbox is getting more and more ip's that are to my liking, wanted to just get gamepass on my pc before they bought zenimax but now i'm leaning towards getting the x box series x.

I’ve come to accept what happend yesterday. All is not lost and there’s no need for me to worry about what will happen to gaming industry’s future. I will as usual stick with Nintendo and those jrpgs/wrpgs I like. I was anyway gonna buy a PC down the line for Falcom games and PC strategy games.

Yeah, yesterday the news broke me. I like sat on a park bench looking at birds for hours. And I was filling up my cat’s food bowl to give it to her but accidently offered to my friend. I was really fucked yesterday.

TES became big only when Skyrim dropped. Fallout also did the same when F3 happened. 

They've been in bed since forever. 

That's true. In the end not much is going to change. Ps5 will still get the Bethesda games, its just that it'll be a lot more appealing to play them on Gamepass instead.

Thing is, though, its no use to MS if people sign up for a month of GP, finish the next Doom and cancel afterwards. I mean, would people stay subscribed to Netflix if they only released 2 or 3 blockbuster movies a year? People stay subscribed because of the series and the flow of fresh content. In order for GP to work, MS will also need a ton of episodic content and/or GAAS titles that'll keep people engaged with their service.

For better or worse, I think MS focus on GP will completely change the way we are used to gaming now. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if we'll be seeing Doom episodes, for example instead of a full game release. Hell, they already said there's not going to be another Halo and they're going full Destiny with the franchise instead.