Microsoft acquire ZeniMax Media. Sounds like everything will be exclusive to Game Pass platforms.

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Officially Welcoming Bethesda to Team Xbox

Publisher of iconic gaming franchises will expand Xbox’s diverse portfolio on Xbox Game Pass

This is an exciting day for Xbox. Today we officially complete the acquisition of ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks. It’s an honor to welcome the eight incredibly talented development studios – Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios – and their passionate global communities to the Xbox family. Now that everything is official, we can begin working together to deliver more great games to everyone. At every step building toward this moment, I’ve been inspired and motivated by the creativity, insight, and community-first approach of the talented people at Bethesda. Our goal is to give these teams the best foundation for doing their greatest work and to learn from them as we continue to build Xbox into an inclusive platform for all players.

This is the next step in building an industry-leading first party studios team, a commitment we have to our Xbox community. With the addition of the Bethesda creative teams, gamers should know that Xbox consoles, PC, and Game Pass will be the best place to experience new Bethesda games, including some new titles in the future that will be exclusive to Xbox and PC players.

As we shared previously, it’s vitally important that Bethesda continues making games the way it always has. We look forward to empowering Bethesda’s creative teams to reach even more players around the world, helping make future Bethesda titles the biggest and most popular games in their history. Xbox and Bethesda have long shared a common vision for the future of gaming. Both as fans and as creators, Bethesda understands the potential of Xbox Game Pass.

We would also like to honor the life and memory of my close friend Robert A. Altman, founder of ZeniMax Media. Robert believed deeply in the power of gaming and we are privileged to be able to continue his work by joining forces with the teams he built and led for many years. I will miss the opportunity to work directly with him on the future of our combined teams but I know that his spirit will live on in the shared work we do and motivate us to make this partnership all he envisioned.

Thank you to all our players for joining us on this incredible journey and to the millions of Bethesda fans around the world. Now that we’re one team, we can start working together on the future ahead. We will have more to share about what’s next for our teams later this year. In the meantime, to properly celebrate this special moment, we are bringing additional Bethesda games into Xbox Game Pass later this week. Stay tuned for more details!

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/03/09/ ... ox-family/

Does really clear up anything regarding exclusivity. The crazyness continues.

Monkey Man wrote:
...gamers should know that Xbox consoles, PC, and Game Pass will be the best place to experience new Bethesda games, including some new titles in the future that will be exclusive to Xbox and PC players...

This is - for me - a big thing. I don't necessarily like it but - as a current PlayStation 4 gamer - I am probably going to move over to Xbox should I get a new console at some point.

Sounds pretty much as expected - some but not all games will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.

OrangeRKN wrote:Sounds pretty much as expected - some but not all games will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.

Games not yet announced and/or not under contract to release will be Exclusive, pretty much what I thought.

Photek wrote:
OrangeRKN wrote:Sounds pretty much as expected - some but not all games will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.

Games not yet announced and/or not under contract to release will be Exclusive, pretty much what I thought.

It doesn't say that anywhere.

It's entirely possible that they won't have a blanket approach for all games and that going forward select titles may well still see multi-platform release. But I would still bet on those being very much in the minority

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more heat than light wrote:
Photek wrote:
OrangeRKN wrote:Sounds pretty much as expected - some but not all games will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.

Games not yet announced and/or not under contract to release will be Exclusive, pretty much what I thought.

It doesn't say that anywhere.

Well, I'm presuming that's what he means based on other leaks and rumours doing the rounds...

EDIT: Although apparently, Jeff Grub and other 'insiders's reckon everything that's not Online will be Xbox/PC Exclusive.

Bethesda did a small video about themselves...

twitter.com/bethesda/status/1369294765892792334

It's hard to imagine that MS would spend that kinda money and then publish the games on all platforms. Maybe in the short term there won't be much change but, in time, it feels like Bethesda games will appear exclusively on Xbox/PC.

To a minor extent Bethesda's games have already been a wee bit Xbox-biased in the past couple of years thanks to publishing deals; both ESO and Fallout 76 have had better-priced subs/game currencies on Xbox than on PlayStation.

They'll always be a PC publisher/studio for me so you console peasants should just be happy you get any of their games at all!

Photek wrote:
more heat than light wrote:
Photek wrote:
OrangeRKN wrote:Sounds pretty much as expected - some but not all games will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.

Games not yet announced and/or not under contract to release will be Exclusive, pretty much what I thought.

It doesn't say that anywhere.

Well, I'm presuming that's what he means based on other leaks and rumours doing the rounds...

EDIT: Although apparently, Jeff Grub and other 'insiders's reckon everything that's not Online will be Xbox/PC Exclusive.

Presuming and speculating is fine, but it's important not to spread misinformation when nothing has been confirmed either way.

Ok.

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more heat than light wrote:
Photek wrote:
more heat than light wrote:
Photek wrote:
OrangeRKN wrote:Sounds pretty much as expected - some but not all games will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.

Games not yet announced and/or not under contract to release will be Exclusive, pretty much what I thought.

It doesn't say that anywhere.

Well, I'm presuming that's what he means based on other leaks and rumours doing the rounds...

EDIT: Although apparently, Jeff Grub and other 'insiders's reckon everything that's not Online will be Xbox/PC Exclusive.

Presuming and speculating is fine, but it's important not to spread misinformation when nothing has been confirmed either way.

This isn’t a murder inquiry. It’s much more serious.

What I think it means is, that, all the games which would normally release on other consoles will continue to do so. Y'know, future iterations of Fallout, Morrowind, Doom, etc, etc. Maybe even the space game. But wholly new IP (i.e. those conceived of after the MS acquisition) will stay as console exclusive to Xbox. Maybe. Possibly.

I'd go with what SOK has said and I'd even go as far to say that those future iterations will be a timed exclusive or extra content for Microsoft users.

If MS can maintain healthy sales of their Xbox consoles, I do wonder why MS would put their games onto the PlayStation (or any other) format. I get the argument about "gaining more sales" and this makes some short-term financial sense... but, if we follow that line, maybe Sony should publish their exclusives on the Xbox format for the same reason?

I'm going with everything exclusive other than the 2 PS5 games, Current/Future MMO'S & maybe Wolfenstein 3.

I think they're going to shock everyone and only release all Bethesda games on PS5

Glad I haven't bought a Ps5! Yikes.

god man I just want to keep playing Doom and Wolfenstein on playstation I only got into modern video games like a year ago aaaaaaaaa

Microsoft acquire ZeniMax Media. Sounds like everything will be exclusive to Game Pass platforms.

Where are you playing exclusive Bethesda games in the future?

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