Comes from Gamerant. Important note is the Bethesda negotiations took approximately three years and whatever deal this is has been in the works for some time. Expected to be announced if it happens by the end of this year or the beginning of 2022.
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Microsoft Looking to Make Bethesda Size Acquisition
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Comes from Gamerant. Important note is the Bethesda negotiations took approximately three years and whatever deal this is has been in the works for some time. Expected to be announced if it happens by the end of this year or the beginning of 2022.
I can't really think of any other companies MS is that close with either. Plus FIFA and Madden on Gamepass would probably drive a lot of subs.
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Microsoft making it their mission to ruin the games industry?
EA is a ton bigger than Bethesda and tbh I'm not sure how it would work with all the sports licenses.
There isnt any other big private publishers right? So if it's a big publisher it's got to be a public one.
The Gamepass pipeline needs more fuel, it's going to be insane in a couple of years.
Edit: EA is NOT Bethesda sized. An EA acquisition would be north of 50 billion.
CD Projekt Red for instance earlier this year was valued more than all of Ubisoft.
The Gamepass pipeline needs more fuel, it's going to be insane in a couple of years.
Edit: EA is NOT Bethesda sized. An EA acquisition would be north of 50 billion.
Way cheaper, EA is like 4x bigger.
CD Projekt Red for instance earlier this year was valued more than all of Ubisoft.
Ahhhhh exciting times ahead, do they need EA? Probably not but between them and TenCent things are heating up.
Not unless they are really, really stretching the idea of a "Bethesda size" acquisition, because EA are enormously bigger than Bethesda. The Bethesda purchase is tagged at US$7.5B, EA's current market cap is US$41.48B and Microsoft would have to pay a premium over that.
Don't know if I would like that.
On the other hand Microsoft would probably actually do something with their dormant IPs.
But EA isn't in financial trouble, are they?
I mean Bethesda had a couple of flops in the past few years, so they couldn't go on like they did forever.
EA seems like a bad purchase... Outside of the bad MTX-infected sports games they make there's DICE, Respawn... and that's it. They don't offer enough to Game Pass to make it worth the astronomical price.
I'd rather microsoft buy publishers than Amazon or google.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was Sega. They're well known, plus it's a stronger foot into Japan.
probably but ms doesn't really buy public companies if i remember correctly
What other publishers are Bethesda sized? EA and Take Two are both several times larger (market caps of 41.48 billion and 23.04 billion respectively)
People like to think posts like these are just trolling or meming but I 100% agree here. By the end of this new generation I expect Microsoft to sell a lot more consoles in at least the UK and US while getting a lot closer in mainland Europe.
By market cap, yes, they would be, though the measure of size might mean something else (if it's employees, for example, Ubisoft have about twice as many as EA and almost eight times as many as Zenimax).
Hmmm. Interesting. Satya, Amy and Phil aren't joking.
you know who it is?
Blue eyes purely open.
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CDPR would actually be a good hit for them, can also get in now while the going is rough and come out way on top in the end, not really Bethesda size though, and won't bolster the exclusive roster in any meaningful amount of time, so probably not, but it would be huge as a future purchase
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