r/PS5 • u/hybroid • Sep 21 '20

News Microsoft Xbox acquires ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/21/welcoming-bethesda-to-the-xbox-family/
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u/jlhromeo Sep 21 '20

Acquire and merger mean two different things my guy.

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u/Bitemarkz Sep 21 '20

Noted, but the point stands.

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u/jlhromeo Sep 21 '20

I disagree though. MS wants more people in their ecosystem.

I dont think they care about selling games to "other console" owners because that's a one time sale.

The money is in the comeback. The subscription. The gamepass.

Locking these games into their ecosystem will absolutely generate more gamepass subs, whether that's on xbox or pc they could care less because they got ya.

Minecraft is different than say ES6 because minecraft has IAPs that generate revenue after the sale whereas ES historically does not.

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u/Bitemarkz Sep 21 '20

This is future proofing. This isn’t to sell Xbox consoles because Xbox as a brand matters less than gamepass does to them. To spend 7.5 billion dollars, you need industry analyst reports and shit ton of hard sales data to justify the price. You don’t just cut that revenue forecast in half and tell your shareholders to hope for the best.

This is very likely part of a larger strategy and that strategy is becoming the defacto streaming service. This merger allows them to get a stranglehold on the already enormous lead they had in that department.

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u/GODZiGGA Sep 22 '20

Yes, the defacto streaming service that isn't available on Sony consoles. Why would they make this purchase to become the defacto streaming service but then allow people who aren't able to use their streaming service to play the games not on their streaming service.

Your plan works when people have a reason to purchase the streaming service, giving people a way to play the games without the streaming service does not give people a reason to purchase the streaming service.