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Microsofthas dealt a vast blow in the forthcoming console table war , asXbox Game Studioshas purchased ZeniMax Media ( owners of companies like Bethesda and i d Software ) for $ 7.5 billion , give it exclusive rights to the belovedFallout , Elder Scrolls , andDOOMfranchises . The preceding year has seen Microsoft and Sony corrupt up development studios , in an endeavor to ensure their next systems have exclusives , and this move is the mother of all skill .
Over the retiring few year , Microsoft hasbrought several studios under the Xbox Game Studios standard , including Compulsion Games ( We Happy Few ) , Double Fine Productions ( Psychonauts ) , inXile Entertainment ( Wasteland ) , Mojang Studios ( Minecraft ) , Ninja Theory(Hellblade : Senua’sSacrifice),Obsidian Entertainment ( The Outer Worlds ) , and Undead Labs(State ofDecay).Microsoft has been assemble a killers row of studios to help bolster the exclusives line of merchandise - up of both Game Pass and the Xbox Series X / S.
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In a move that that has shock the industry , Microsoft has annunciate on the officialXboxwebsite andTwitterpage that it has purchase ZeniMax Media for a monumental $ 7.5 billion nub . This means that the Xbox Game Studios now own Alpha Dog Games , Arkane Studios , Bethesda Softworks , MachineGames , Tango Gameworks , and Roundhouse Studios . Most significantly , the Xbox brand now own franchises likeDOOM , Fallout , andThe sr. Scrollsseries , and it will likely wield these titanicfranchises as AAA exclusivesin the coming console table generation to bolster Xbox Series console family sale and subscription . The wad is expected to be approved and completed during the 2d half of 2021 .
The query that many are asking now is what this mean for the future of franchises likeDOOMandFallout , as well as how Xbox will handle other previously arrogate multiplatform titles that have been announced , likeStarfield . The Mojang deal turn out that Microsoft is willing to licence out its secret plan to other systems , and the company particularly has no issues act with Nintendo , as seen whenOri and the Will of the Wispsrecently come to Switch . move around games likeThe Elder Scrolls VI , Fallout 5,andStarfieldinto Xbox console exclusives would be a vast blow toSony , but those championship are still class aside and Microsoft might see the profit in bringing those game to PlayStation consoles in the future tense .
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