Plans for Bethesda on Micro .ft’s Xbox Box X Series X now seem clearer

I always try to admit that when I am wrong and in this case, I preconceivedly admit that I am Maybe Microsoft first announced that I had acquired Bethesda for 7. 7.5 billion when I assumed the initial position was wrong.

My immediate reaction was that MicroSFT might not advance the Bethesda Games Xbox. Why Some reasons:

• As a publisher selling millions of copies of future Bethesda games on PlayStation, he could still be murdered.
• They still have a big advantage in offering them “free” as part of a game pass while Sony will take -60-70 at launch time.
• Phil Spencer has previously talked about the console war concept of exclusives and the whole “versus Sony”, and he wants to expand gaming across multiple platforms.
• They paid 2.5 2.5 billion for Minecraft, and banning the game from being on PlayStation did not end there.

And yet, the more I think about this and the more information will come out, the more I believe that yes, micro .ft probably. Is , If not all future Bethesda Games Xbox / PC / Game Pass / Exclud cloud exclusive, will make the most.

Why There are a few other things to consider.

Shortly after the news was announced, Phil Spencer said that while current deals with Bethesda rival consoles would be honored (due to Deathlope ironically being the PlayStation console exclusive), future titles would be on a “case by case basis” that didn’t look very promising. . For free and open sharing with Sony (or in theory, Nintendo) in the future.

Next, you don’t really spend just 7. 7.5 billion on a publisher Only Put their games on the game pass and do not make them completely exclusive. If they want to do this kind of deal, they can probably do so without buying Bethesda at all. There were difficulties before Microsoft was considering buying Microsoft Ft Bungie, but instead of doing so (for $ 2-3 billion or whatever it might cost) they managed to make a game pass deal where future content (at least the old expansion) And beyond the light)) The game is starting to pass. So why would a whole company’s entire purchase (literally the largest developer acquisition in gaming history) be a similar game pass launch idea? Without Uniqueness?

Also this week, Amazon announced its new Luna cloud gaming service that will offer things like publisher specific channels, for example a Ubisoft subscription by Luna that lets you receive X amount of Ubisoft games for a fee. So with this purchase, Micro .ft is not just fighting Sony, they are fighting a pre-battle with Google and Amazon and a choice of these rival cloud services. Micros .ft owns Bethesda, there is almost zero chance that you will see “Bethesda Channel” on Luna, as Micro .ft will only keep it for game pass and exclud. They have also already made a deal with EA Access Access, which should keep it out of reach of Amazon. They are starving for future competition even before they actually arrive banavu Competition.

After all, Microsoft doesn’t really trust me when they talk about how there is no real animosity and no console war between them and Sony and it’s all dumb and meaningless. While Fanboy Flame Wars can be really dumb and meaningless, MicroSFT is still basically a business and they want to be a global leader in Xbox gaming. One of the biggest things that works against the Xbox when stacked against competitors like Nintendo and Sony? Lack of exclusion. And you don’t really buy yourself an immediate solution to that problem for $ 7.5 billion and don’t take advantage of it.

Microsoft has always relied on Microsoft Ft, Hal Gears, Gears, Forza and a few other rare ones, and they have assembled or purchased the Bethesda deal while developing new titles with other studios. Soon They are given as many categories as Starfield, Elder Scroll, Fallout, Doom, Wolfenstein, Hunting, Humiliation and many more, the theoretical exclusion of the future, if they use that option. And at the moment, I can see now that there is really no reason to do so. They want you to play on Xbox and Game Pass, not on PlayStation or Switch or Luna or Stadia. Basically it comes down to the same, though, all of their “we’re all friends just playing games” talk suggests otherwise.

Hence, the new prediction: Bethesda Xbox loads along the way. Count on it.

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