Damn, I really wanted to play Skyrim on the PS6. At least GTAV will be on it.
Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
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Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#52Soon we'll just have Microsoft, Epic, and a conglomeration of EA, Activision, and Ubisoft after Bobby Kotick forces them all to merge. Facebook will bungle up any chance they have of capturing the gaming market after writing a cryptic paragraph about their legal right to request blood samples from all Oculous users in the TOS. Valve will quietly exit software development altogether, and pivot to building custom vanit…
Nintendo is self-sustainable, Apple is exerting a lot of influence among smaller studios with Arcade. Like Annapurna Interactive (which is nota bene funded by Oracle).
Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#53Soon we'll just have Microsoft, Epic, and a conglomeration of EA, Activision, and Ubisoft after Bobby Kotick forces them all to merge. Facebook will bungle up any chance they have of capturing the gaming market after writing a cryptic paragraph about their legal right to request blood samples from all Oculous users in the TOS. Valve will quietly exit software development altogether, and pivot to building custom vanit…
I was expecting you to finish with valve pivoting to hats.
Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#54I was looking at my list of favorite games when I realized that all my favorite games are indi, except for Fallout/Elder scrolls. KSP, Subnautica, factorio, minecraft, papers please, FTL, EVE, x-plane, city skylines ... they all at least started as indi titles. Then I look at fallout and oblivion, the only non-indi games I've really enjoyed in the last 10+ years. There is something difference about them. So when I see microsoft buying Bethesda, I worry.
Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#55Soon we'll just have Microsoft, Epic, and a conglomeration of EA, Activision, and Ubisoft after Bobby Kotick forces them all to merge. Facebook will bungle up any chance they have of capturing the gaming market after writing a cryptic paragraph about their legal right to request blood samples from all Oculous users in the TOS. Valve will quietly exit software development altogether, and pivot to building custom vanit…
>Soon we'll just have Microsoft, Epic, and a conglomeration of EA, Activision, and Ubisoft
And, you know, all the other independent developers. Of which there are a legion.
Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#56Seems like a better deal than the vapid fad that is TikTok, in addition to them partnering with Oracle which looks like a marriage made in a hellstew. Well done Microsoft and Bethesda.
TikTok is not an investment in tech, it’s an investment in relations with the US public sector. The fact that it comes with an actual company attached is almost irrelevant for Oracle.
Sure, but we are talking about Microsoft here.
You should look at the rumoured purchase price that Microsoft was willing to pay for TikTok.
Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
ID tech is one of the biggest Vulkan users. I really hope they don't port it to Directx 12 instead :(
When I saw Doom 2016 running on OpenGL I was shocked. I would’ve never thought you could write an AAA game with it. It made me wonder why game developers use DX instead.
Because game developers mostly don't pick the backend, game engine developers do. The vast majority of game developers pick a game engine and that drives most of their other technical decisions. There are really only a dozen game engines that have enough market share to matter, and a decent chunk of the biggest ones were built on top of DX for various reasons. OpenGL, while a great concept, was a fairly flawed execution for quite a while (its gotten a lot better in the last 10 years or so), so I can at least partially understand why in the past someone who doesn't care at all about cross-platform support might have steered clear of it.
Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#58Holy sh!t. Bethesda is huge! Well I was just thinking the other day that Microsoft really doesn't have any first party studio that are really as good as Sony's first party. IMO they didn't release a game 'this' gen that makes picking up a xbox one worth it. This could change that with fallout and doom. Also this allows them to bring the ID tech engine under their stewardship.... I just hope that they don't trash the…
No Microsoft game has monetization as bad as Fallout 76. So whatever Bethesda does from now on can't be worse than what it does today. ;)
This should be filed under the "Tell me in 2 years" section.
Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#59Holy sh!t. Bethesda is huge! Well I was just thinking the other day that Microsoft really doesn't have any first party studio that are really as good as Sony's first party. IMO they didn't release a game 'this' gen that makes picking up a xbox one worth it. This could change that with fallout and doom. Also this allows them to bring the ID tech engine under their stewardship.... I just hope that they don't trash the…
Isn't Minecraft a bigger game than anything Sony makes? It's owned by Microsoft but isn't an xbox exclusive.
Re: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
#60Incredible that Fallout and Obsidian are now under the same roof again. The Outer Worlds was fun, and I want to see Obsidians efforts continue. Still, new Vegas 2 would be fine too.
How is The Outer Worlds? I heard it is basically space Fallout, which if that is half as good as it sounds I am all over it.
It's Fallout: Firefly. Space western fallout game with quirky characters, hard moral dilemmas, and no one telling you what's right/wrong.