Why Microsoft bought Bethesda in the first Place

[M]

hey guys.

please take, what I write here, with a grain of salt and take it as unconfirmed information. thx.

apparently sony wanted to make starfield ps5 exclusive. microsoft perceived this and aquired the whole bethesda game studio for an incredibly high sum of money, which far exceeded the worth of the brand star wars, for example. this can only mean, that bethesda has something more precious in the boot, as we simple people are aware of. thats why I think, starfield will be a success.

I just cant find the article, where I read this, so be aware of it may not be true. if anybody finds the info on the web, he can post it here, if he wants and if it applies to the forum rules.

[Tenoshii]

Bill Gates wanted a watch but didn't want to buy the game.

[Settings]

Actually documents released into discovery in the FTC's investigation into Microsoft's acquisition of Activision have confirmed that Microsoft bought Bethesda because they, and this is their words not mine, plan to "spend Sony out of the North American market."

Essentially Microsoft plans to use their massive spending power to overwhelm Sony and run them out of the North American market, which is highly illegal and why the FTC has temporarily blocked the Activision acquisition.

So yeah, take the Op with a "grain of salt" because it's patently false information that's been disproven by internal documents that belonged to Microsoft in the first place.

[ignis]

Originally posted by user:

Actually documents released into discovery in the FTC's investigation into Microsoft's acquisition of Activision have confirmed that Microsoft bought Bethesda because they, and this is their words not mine, plan to "spend Sony out of the North American market."

Essentially Microsoft plans to use their massive spending power to overwhelm Sony and run them out of the North American market, which is highly illegal and why the FTC has temporarily blocked the Activision acquisition.

Get latest news. Some fun stuff was revealed.

[kdodds]

I don't think you need to go searching for "something more precious". Skyrim has sold over 60 million copies and is still perennially on the Steam top sellers list every sale cycle. That puts it squarely in the all time top 10, all platforms. Starfield is "the precious", and TES:VI coming up behind it is "the precious", and so on.

FWIW, I'd take the stories about Starfield as a potential PS exclusive with a grain of salt. BGS and Sony have historically never been on great terms to begin with going by the numerous issues with PS and BGS games.

[AmaiAmai]

They bought it because they wanted a monopoly.

That, and likely to access IP/Patents. If you are going to use IP/Patents and don't like licenses, it can make sense to outright buy the company you are interested in if you can.

Example?

Facebook and Oculus. Facebook could have bought Zenimax et. al. and had access to the IP/Patents and used Zenimax to build their metaverse.

It's unfortunate Facebook isn't as forward-thinking as they believe themselves

[Settings]

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

They bought it because they wanted a monopoly.

That, and likely to access IP/Patents. If you are going to use IP/Patents and don't like licenses, it can make sense to outright buy the company you are interested in if you can.

Example?

Facebook and Oculus. Facebook could have bought Zenimax et. al. and had access to the IP/Patents and used Zenimax to build their metaverse.

It's unfortunate Facebook isn't as forward-thinking as they believe themselves

Leave Mark Zuckerberg alone, the lizard people haven't upgraded his processor in like 7 years. It's not his fault he didn't think this through.

[Daedrius]

Some recent news

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ftc-challenge-microsoft-acquisition-effort-activision-blizzard-lina-khan

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by user:

which is highly illegal

I don't think figures of speech are highly illegal. What's unfolding is your typical big-government takeover of an industry ... in this case gaming. It has been discovered that tyranny is best begun in the nursery.

As the nation slowly rotates away from (totally government controlled) television to other forms of entertainment, you'll see more of this.

[Settings]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by user:

which is highly illegal

I don't think figures of speech are highly illegal.

Actually conspiring to create an illegal monopoly is illegal in the US. Today you learned a new thing, enjoy that.

Edit: I see you've added a weird "Government conspiracy theory" to your post so I'm just going to disengage with the crazy.

[Dragon Master]

Originally posted by user:

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

I don't think figures of speech are highly illegal.

Actually conspiring to create an illegal monopoly is illegal in the US. Today you learned a new thing, enjoy that.

Which is actually one of the reasons Congress is investigating Sony and their anti-competitive practices. Particularly in how they are interfering with trade agreements with Japan in digital marketplaces and undermining those existing trade agreements.

https://www.eurogamer.net/us-congress-raises-concerns-about-sonys-monopoly-on-japans-gaming-market

[M]

thanks for your posts. tbh, I read this news and didnt know myself, what to think about it. I clearly didnt want to misinform people in bad will.

[_APA [~sudo]]

Originally posted by M:

hey guys.

please take, what I write here, with a grain of salt and take it as unconfirmed information. thx.

apparently sony wanted to make starfield ps5 exclusive. microsoft perceived this and aquired the whole bethesda game studio for an incredibly high sum of money, which far exceeded the worth of the brand star wars, for example. this can only mean, that bethesda has something more precious in the boot, as we simple people are aware of. thats why I think, starfield will be a success.

I just cant find the article, where I read this, so be aware of it may not be true. if anybody finds the info on the web, he can post it here, if he wants and if it applies to the forum rules.

Thats why we have

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3812908758672004800/?tscn=1688137008

Thank you MS Post :)

[Settings]

Originally posted by Dragon Master:

Originally posted by user:

Actually conspiring to create an illegal monopoly is illegal in the US. Today you learned a new thing, enjoy that.

Which is actually one of the reasons Congress is investigating Sony and their anti-competitive practices. Particularly in how they are interfering with trade agreements with Japan in digital marketplaces and undermining those existing trade agreements.

https://www.eurogamer.net/us-congress-raises-concerns-about-sonys-monopoly-on-japans-gaming-market

Good. ♥♥♥♥ corporations.

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by user:

Actually conspiring to create an illegal monopoly is illegal in the US.

So is detonating a nuclear device. But the only place either of those is happening is someone's imagination. What accusations of monopoly do is provide an excuse for government to take over and start dictating how business is going to run, which is the last thing anyone should ever want.

[M]

Originally posted by APA.minds _REDUX:

Originally posted by M:

hey guys.

please take, what I write here, with a grain of salt and take it as unconfirmed information. thx.

apparently sony wanted to make starfield ps5 exclusive. microsoft perceived this and aquired the whole bethesda game studio for an incredibly high sum of money, which far exceeded the worth of the brand star wars, for example. this can only mean, that bethesda has something more precious in the boot, as we simple people are aware of. thats why I think, starfield will be a success.

I just cant find the article, where I read this, so be aware of it may not be true. if anybody finds the info on the web, he can post it here, if he wants and if it applies to the forum rules.

Thats why we have

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3812908758672004800/?tscn=1688137008

Thank you MS Post :)

yeah, at least another dude aware of what I wrote in first post. microsoft really spent loads of cash for zenimax/bethesda and they would not have done it, when they didnt know, what to get for that money. I think, its good for us. but who knows?