PlayStation fanboys prefer to say the Xbox doesn’t have sufficient unique video games. Well, now the Xbox could have video games. Early Monday, Microsoft introduced that it’s buying the father or mother firm of Bethesda Softworks, the writer behind iconic gaming franchises like Doom, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Quake, Wolfenstein, Dishonored, Prey, and extra, for $7.5 billion.
That’s a heck of a birthday current for the Xbox Series X, the next-gen console that lands on November 10. Preorders for the Xbox Series X open tomorrow. It’ll most likely put your PC to disgrace.
While PlayStation fanatics must be apprehensive about the way forward for these franchises on their console of alternative, PC trustworthy shouldn’t sweat the acquisition. Microsoft has doubled down on PC help in recent times: bringing all its first-party video games to the PC, beefing up Windows 10’s recreation bar, rolling out Steam help, and even debuting the implausible Xbox Game Pass for PC. There’s no purpose to count on Bethesda’s video games to grow to be Xbox console exclusives transferring ahead. Heck, this purchase would possibly even spell doom for the atrocious Bethesda Launcher, and that may’t come quickly sufficient.
Microsoft has been on a shopping for spree in latest months, determined to silence these “but where are the games?” criticisms. Since 2018, the Xbox division has devoured up InXile (Wasteland), Obsidian (Fallout New Vegas, Outer Worlds), Ninja Theory (Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice), Playground Games (Forza), Double Fine (Psychonauts) and Compulsion Games (We Happy Few). That’s an all-star lineup of builders whittling away on Xbox and Windows 10 video games now.
And chew on this, Fallout fanatics: Xbox owns each Bethesda and Obsidian now. Could Fallout: New Vegas 2 be in our future? I very a lot hope so.
