When asked about if we'll be seeing any of the ZeniMax games on other consoles Phil says:

"...as the Xbox community, what they should feel is this is a huge investment in the experiences that they're going to have in the Xbox ecosystem. We want the Xbox ecosystem to be the absolutely best place to play, and we think game availability is absolutely a part of that."

Quote from Phil Dpencer straight from the yahoo interview

You clearly haven't been paying attention. I've said repeatedly that acquiring studios is good for the company and should result in success and exclusives...but that in the 20-ish years of them doing it, the best they've done is Rare. you know, that company who used to be a mover and a shaker in the industry but is now mostly a joke and only had one 'hit' over the past 20 years...a hit that was critically panned and hated as a garbage game for almost a year after its launch due to lack of content. 

23 studios is good in theory. In practice it's done nothing for the company. It's done nothing to attract gamers. It's done nothing to appeal to me or many others.

EXACTLY! Learn your history. I've been saying that since the beginning, and history shows that Xbox acquiring studios does little to nothing to bolster their brand.

It's not trolling if it's simply stating the reality of the situation. It's funny that folks like you get personally offended and call what I'm doing trolling when all I'm doing is explaining the situation from a logical perspective. So reality isn't on your side. I get it. I can't help that, and I'm not going to bend over backwards to play nice because reality offends you. Xbox lost this gen. Period. They lost hard, and there's a multitude of reasons why that is. They have some good ideas, but it's clear that if they knew what they were doing or took a different approach, the battle would be more balanced. The reality is that they are not doing all too well on the console market. almost all of their moves make them a great publisher company, not a console manufacturer and that's the problem. 

You can't just call foul and cry and whine because you can't handle reality. I've been making a conscious effort to explain WHY Microsoft hasn't been doing all too great, but you and many others are just calling me a pessimist or saying that I'm a troll or something. It's actually kind of sad that your only move is to repeat the same clearly wrong arguments and push the same faulty agendas on repeat. Numbers don't lie. Success doesn't lie. Facts don't care about your feelings. 

You live in the past, you do you. I’m looking at Rare today, which they are on top of their game. MS made it very clear they taking a hands off approach now. They delayed Halo instead of forcing a gimped launch. Psychonauts 2 added boss fights and polish since they got picked up, and MS allowed them to delay into 2021. Wasteland 3 needed a delay for polish and due to it they were able to get full voice acting. Just a few examples that Xbox is handling their studios differently. I’m sorry Don Mattrick left a sour taste in your mouth, but Phil Spencer isn’t him. 

Given that these studios were all picked up in the last 2 years....no wonder it’s done “nothing” as you say. AAA games in a pandemic don’t magically appear out of nowhere.

For now, we wait. But at the very least you gotta change your tune about Xbox in 2020 being the same as Xbox 2013. That’s just straight up false and trolling. 

Consoles sell mostly on multiplats doesn’t mean exclusives don’t matter. People buy consoles to play games, obviously the more games you have, the more appealing your console will be to some people. But most buy consoles to play Calls of Doody and NBA and Fortnite with their friends. That’s why best selling lists for consoles are (outside of Nintendo) always full of multiplats. I know you need both. MS was extremely lacking this gen in that regard and now they’re writing checks not really to bolster their lineup to sell consoles but to push GamePass. I think without GamePass they would have been content with their acquisitions from a couple years ago.

Anyone who thinks MS needs to put Bethesda games on PS5 to make back the money on their investment hasn't run the numbers imo.

~10m GP subscribers is enough to deliver a AAA game per month and break even.

~60m GP subscribers is enough to buy a Zenimax every year

Not to mention Steam and the millions of “defectors” that will either buy a Xbox or upgrade their PC. 

The writing is on the wall, the games won't be on PlayStation. PS fanboys are just in denial about it. 

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I'm not so sure of that either. I think MS should put their games on PS5. Start with XB having demo exclusives and other perks then move on to 1-month/3mth timed exclusivity and use it as a sword of damacles above Sony's and to a lesser extent Nintendo's heads.

The only real loser of the last-gen is the WiiU. You seem to think that just because Sony won the generation that must mean Xbox was a complete failure. 

In 2019, Sony revenue from gaming was 12 Billion while on the other hand, Microsoft revenue from gaming was 20 Billion. It's clear that what Microsoft did to change the Xbox brand is working and bring lots of revenues. Enough so that it could greenlight a 7.5 billion acquisition that will bolster the Xbox exclusives. 

If Microsoft really gave up on being a Console manufacturer they wouldn't be the maker of last-gen most Powerful Xbox one X and the upcoming generation Xbox Series X. It was crystal clear that Microsoft is firmly committed to the console landscape and that was before the Zeminax acquisition. 

Seem to me like your the one that as a problem with reality, Xbox is no longer just a console brand, Microsoft as decided to go with Xbox ecosystem (Console-PC-Xcloud). You are well aware that Microsoft is bringing all of its exclusives to PC and love to compare consoles sales since clearly, PS4 outsold Xbox one. All of Microsoft's move as been to bolster the Xbox brand. You obviously should not be an Xbox owner anymore because you mention in a past thread that you will not support Gamepass. Gamepass subscription and service are now the future of the Xbox brand. 

You claim that history shows that acquiring studios does little to bolster their brand, you must still be referring to your wrong stance on the Rare acquisition. Because the history of all of the current Microsoft acquisition hasn't been written yet. 

Like you said Numbers don't lie and success doesn't lie and it's clear that Microsoft as found a winning solution. Microsoft now owns 23 studios and most if not all future ZeniMax IP will have some type of Xbox exclusivity.