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Lol... that's like 19 million copies sold at $60 with the all the money (ignoring platform and vendor cuts) going straight to the devs ... so realistically more like 40 million copies sold to hit 1.12 billion assuming the dev cut is $30
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They already had their movie business and Ironman was out, with Iron Man 2 in production. But, yes, it was right at the start of Marvel's growth.
I can see it though I'm curious how much that would cost. granted I guess I also wanna know how expensive these timed exclusivity deals are too. I imagine the
Jim Ryan sees Phil Spencer at Bethesda Softworks (2020 colorized)
Both realizing what just happened on the car ride home
Everybody should buy all the consoles?
Maybe, think, "I will work more hours" to get them.
Maybe, think, "I will work more hours" to get them.
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Marvel was not the proud studio behind multiple billion dollar films at that point, and they had parted out their most valuable IP beforehand. Remember, when that sale happened, Disney was staring down the barrel of having to make people care about Thor and Hawkeye while other studios had the big guns of Spiderman and the X-men. The MCU is huge now obviously, but people were not so confident in it back then.
Star Wars was a sale from a private individual who had all the rights, which is a much different scenario than what we have here. George wanted to sell, and one person isn't going to turn down $4 billion. And besides, Disney has already made their money back from that anyway. The films alone have made about ~$5.7B against budgets of ~$1.3B. Even cutting their take-home pay 50%, that's still over a billion just on the films. The shows, toys, merch, etc... are all worth billions, easy. Hell, I can't imagine how much that Mos Eisley attraction at the park has brought in.
"One of the things that has me most excited is seeing the roadmap with Bethesda's future games, some announced and many unannounced, to Xbox console and PC including Starfield, the highly anticipated, new space epic currently in development by Bethesda Game Studios."
Welcoming the Talented Teams and Beloved Game Franchises of Bethesda to Xbox - Xbox Wire
Critically acclaimed creators of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, DOOM, Dishonored, Quake, Starfield and more join Team Xbox Today is a special day, as we welcome some of the most accomplished studios in the games industry to Xbox. We are thrilled to announce Microsoft has entered into...
news.xbox.com
Sony probably knew Bethesda is going to be acquired though and paid for the time exclusivity for Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo (and tried for Starfield) exactly because of that.
that's just not true. In interviews and on social media he has always had a reputation for being blunt and confrontational. it's such a well known fact it's a bit of an in-joke with TES and fallout fans. it's entirely possible he's taken himself away from the public eye for whatever reason, but it wasn't because he was getting uncharacteristically more aggressive because of recent releases. your theory is projection, not detective work
edit—remember his responses to the paid mods criticism? or the horse armor criticism. or people asking when the next game was going to be announced before fallout 4 was revealed, or people asking about the next TES
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...lots of companies? Like, EA's market cap is $38B. Activision's market cap is $64B. Take Two's market cap is $19B.
Zenimax is a big get, to be sure, but they're not anywhere near "biggest third party" territory.
You don't think Disney didn't already make money back with rentals, movie purchases, theme park attractions and Disney +
Eh, it's up there though, one of about half a dozen of huge independent publishing houses which remained. With each one gone the markets gets less and less, well, a market.
I lol'd.
Don't take this post seriously all
Haha, okay this one got me.
I lol'd.
Don't take this post seriously all
Man, I love the Internet.
I believe there will be an opportunity to buy! This is just silly thinking there will not be, yet that is the difference .... buy
Day one release:
PS5: $70
Xbox: Gamepass
Still find it hard to believe that the last new Elder Scrolls game released 2 months after Resistance 3.
technically you can still buy on gamepass lol you get a 20% discount too
US=/=WorldLol. I can't "prove" it to you, because Bethesda doesn't release numbers. But for your information, these are Top 10 bestselling games in US in 2015:
Best-Selling Physical Games in US for All of 2015:
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
Madden NFL 16 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
Fallout 4 (PS4, Xbox One, PC)
Star Wars: Battlefront (Xbox One, PS4, PC)
Grand Theft Auto V (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3, PC)
NBA 2K16 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
Minecraft (360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4)
Mortal Kombat X (PS4, Xbox One)
FIFA 16 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
Top Ten Best-Selling US Games of 2015 and December Revealed
Here are the best-selling games for December 2015 and the full year.www.gamespot.com
Fallout 4 is #3 despite being released at the end of the year. The only games that outsold it are COD and Madden NFL. Notice that Witcher 3, that went on to sell nearly 30 million over its lifetime (and was released much earlier in the year), isn't even on the list. So it's pretty safe to say that Fallout 4 has sold at least 30 million by now. So please stop rewriting history. It absolutely was a huge hit.
Incredible amount of talented studios and big franchises now under Microsoft.
Two days ago i hated this decision, still kinda am since my prefered platforms to play on are Sony and Nintendo, but honestly XBox now has gained some magic for me by this move i can't exactly explain what it is.
It's still early and ultimately the quality of the games are going to tell the truth, but i as much as it is weird to tell it to myself: Bethesda fits Microsoft and viceversa.
In 2 or 3 years, when maybe the next TES releases, i can see me getting a Series X and so being in posses of all big three consoles first time ever.
Very very smart move from Microsoft.
Two days ago i hated this decision, still kinda am since my prefered platforms to play on are Sony and Nintendo, but honestly XBox now has gained some magic for me by this move i can't exactly explain what it is.
It's still early and ultimately the quality of the games are going to tell the truth, but i as much as it is weird to tell it to myself: Bethesda fits Microsoft and viceversa.
In 2 or 3 years, when maybe the next TES releases, i can see me getting a Series X and so being in posses of all big three consoles first time ever.
Very very smart move from Microsoft.
I was able to get Phil, Pete and Todd on to chat about this (and tell a few stories!) if you want to give it a watch
https://youtu.be/WI2IPeocbAA
https://youtu.be/WI2IPeocbAA
Fun watch, thanks.
Always fun to hear these war stories from conferences past.
You can't fool me though. Or the other Era members. It's very transparent that there's a cryptic message in the layout of the Zoom call participants:
MN PS
PH TH
I look forward to the decryptions from my fellow Era sleuths.
This is the logical extreme conclusion of the Rare philosophy of character design.
I'm disappointed Banjo isn't in there somewhere.
I hope that Figboy doesn't mind me posting this here, but this post is quality and gives a good insight into the acquisition process.
Saw this on SIFTD and was just looking for the thread to post it, lol.
Funny hearing about the ("double memory party")
and it's so weird to hear that (they "could 'reboot' the original Xbox and the user can't tell" when they ran out of memory) in Morrowind.
Thank you for bringing that over here. It was an interesting read.
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Thats really interesting. Especially considering that Sony may have known about this for a long time. Which makes me wonder more if they started looking for some other big acquisitions of their own.
The xbox podcast with Pete and Todd was really great. Stoked for this partnership. Bethesda is a perfect fit for xbox.
35 fucking studios....and now we wait. E3 2021 and 2022 should be something lol.
I would say 35+ studios/teams. Like Obsidian have like 3 full teams.
We know that GaaS projects are appealing prospects for streaming service providers because of the way they entice consumers to remain subbed month after month. We've seen many (though not all) of Microsoft's franchises designed around this GaaS mold like Forza, Sea of Thieves, Grounded, Halo Infinite, and if rumors are true, Fable.
With that in mind, how do you think this will affect the way BethPub games are designed going forward? Will they mostly be allowed to retain their traditional self-contained structure, or will we see things like Elder Scrolls, Doom, Wolfenstein, etc. become living platforms that are meant to last for years on end?
With that in mind, how do you think this will affect the way BethPub games are designed going forward? Will they mostly be allowed to retain their traditional self-contained structure, or will we see things like Elder Scrolls, Doom, Wolfenstein, etc. become living platforms that are meant to last for years on end?
to me it seems like developers decide the game they want to make GaaS or not at Microsoft. If Bethesda wants to make a GaaS they will, if they don't they won't.
I'll never understand why people think it makes sense to subscribe to a service to play a GaaS game when it'd be cheaper to buy the game.
It's like people have it in their head that a single player experience can't exist on Game Pass. Is every piece of content on Netflix a sitcom?
It's like people have it in their head that a single player experience can't exist on Game Pass. Is every piece of content on Netflix a sitcom?
why? did Ubisoft buy them?
MS have been okay with the MTX stuff so far, especially compared to EA, Take 2, Ubisoft and Activision.
But, Zenimax gave us horse armour, so....
MS have been okay with the MTX stuff so far, especially compared to EA, Take 2, Ubisoft and Activision.
But, Zenimax gave us horse armour, so....
Beth already has two versions of these games that are GAAS. I suspect they'll keep doing that and release the single player versions along side, at least for now. Hard to judge where things will be say 4-5 years from now.
