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<ul class="summary-list"><li>In a Monday morning surprise, Microsoft revealed plans to acquire ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion.</li><li>ZeniMax is the parent company of game publisher Bethesda Softworks, which makes "Fallout," "DOOM," and "<keyword id="2826996" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-elder-scrolls">The Elder Scrolls</keyword>," among many other games.</li><li>The deal is the latest in a string of Microsoft <keyword id="6357332" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Gaming">gaming</keyword> acquisitions intended to bolster the Xbox gaming portfolio, and will bring major franchises in-house to Xbox Studios. </li><li>Excluding two games that are headed to Sony's PlayStation 5, Xbox head Phil Spencer confirmed that the highly-anticipated "<keyword id="9989052" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="starfield">Starfield</keyword>" is only coming to Xbox and PC platforms.</li><li>The next major entries in franchises like "The Elder Scrolls" and "Fallout" are likely to be exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox and PC platforms, leaving the PlayStation 5 out.</li></ul>Just days after Sony announced pricing for the PlayStation 5, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-buys-bethesda-softworks-doom-skyrim-fallout-7-billion-2020-9">Microsoft revealed a huge surprise on Monday morning</a>: The acquisition of the massive game publisher behind franchises like "Fallout," "The Elder Scrolls," and "Doom" in a deal worth $7.5 billion in cash.The deal for the conglomerate ZeniMax Media and its games publisher Bethesda Softworks will incorporate several major video-game-development studios under Microsoft's Xbox Studios umbrella, as well as the major game franchises they oversee.Bethesda Softworks oversees the studios ID Software ("Doom"), Bethesda Game Studios ("Fallout," "The Elder Scrolls," "Starfield"), Arkane Studios ("Dishonored," "<keyword id="9989053" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="deathloop">Deathloop</keyword>"), and MachineGames ("Wolfenstein").Critically, Bethesda Softworks and its myriad games are multiplatform — the company creates and publishes games for Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo platforms. Bethesda also has major games on PC, Mac, and smartphones. Moreover, two major upcoming Bethesda-published games are initially exclusive to Sony's PlayStation 5: "Ghostwire: Tokyo" and "Deathloop."In a bizarre twist, though Microsoft now owns the studios making those games and the publisher in charge of both, but the company <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/microsoft-to-buy-bethesda-studios-for-7-5-billion-to-boost-xbox">told Bloomberg</a> it will honor those contracts. Both games will appear on Sony's PlayStation 5 before heading to Microsoft's Xbox Series S and Series X consoles, Xbox leader Phil Spencer said.After those two games, Spencer said Bethesda will launch its next major game — "Starfield" — on Xbox consoles, PC, and through Microsoft's popular game subscription service Xbox Game Pass. That list notably excludes Sony's PlayStation 5.<div type="image" title="Starfield (E3 2018)" height="565" width="754" msid="78281725" hostid="261"></div>Beyond "Starfield," it sounds like major upcoming entries in blockbuster franchises like "The Elder Scrolls" and "DOOM" may also skip Sony's next game console. Spencer said Microsoft is considering platforms for each game on "a case-by-case basis," but it stands to reason that the logic behind Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition was predicated on adding a large portfolio of beloved game franchises that would be exclusive to its platforms.In an email exchange with Business Insider, Wedbush Managing Director Michael Pachter said it was "unlikely" that Microsoft will publish the forthcoming entries to major franchises on Sony's PlayStation 5 or Nintendo's Switch "after 2021."Across the last seven years, as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have gone head to head, Microsoft's Xbox has struggled to compete with Sony's PlayStation in terms of big exclusive games.Sony's PlayStation 4 boasts a vast portfolio of critically and commercially successful games — including "God of War," "Marvel's Spider-Man," "The Last of Us: Part II," and "Bloodborne" — that can only be played on the PlayStation 4. Microsoft's Xbox One, on the other hand, only has a handful of such games ("Gears 5," "Sea of Thieves," and "Halo: The Master Chief Collection"), and they can all still be played on PC if you'd prefer.Instead, Microsoft has focused on a new service named Xbox Game Pass, which offers a Netflix-like library of games that can be downloaded to your Xbox/PC or played remotely via the cloud on Android smartphones. Game Pass charges a monthly subscription that starts at $10, and includes all of Microsoft's first-party games at launch.It is, in short, a tremendously good deal for consumers.Xbox Game Pass now has over <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/xbox-game-pass-has-over-15-million-users-2020-9">15 million paid users</a>, according to an announcement that also came on Monday morning. It has been the most successful of Microsoft's recent major pushes for Xbox against the dominance of the PlayStation. And it's this service in particular that Microsoft intends to bolster with the purchase of Bethesda Softworks."We will be adding Bethesda's iconic franchises to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC," Spencer said in the acquisition announcement post. Moreover, those games will arrive on the Game Pass service on the same day they launch otherwise for the next-gen Xbox consoles and PC — games like the highly-anticipated "<keyword id="9989055" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="the-elder-scrolls-vi">The Elder Scrolls VI</keyword>," and "Starfield," and whatever's next in the "Fallout" franchise.And they probably won't arrive on the PlayStation 5.Got a tip? Contact Business Insider senior correspondent Ben Gilbert via email (<a href="mailto:bgilbert@businessinsider.com">bgilbert@businessinsider.com</a>), or Twitter DM (<a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenGilbert">@realbengilbert</a>). We can keep sources anonymous. Use a non-work device to reach out. PR pitches by email only, please.

Microsoft will honor already announced Bethesda games coming to PS5, but the rest will be on a 'case-by-case basis'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In a Monday morning surprise, <keyword id="10387" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Microsoft">Microsoft</keyword> revealed plans to spend $7.5 billion on the acquisition of <keyword id="4129343" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="ZeniMax-Media">ZeniMax Media</keyword> — the parent company of game publisher Bethesda Softworks, which makes "Fallout," "DOOM," and "The Elder Scrolls," among many other games.</li><li>The deal is the latest in a string of Microsoft <keyword id="6357332" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Gaming">gaming</keyword> acquisitions intended to bolster the <keyword id="6536570" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="xbox">Xbox</keyword> gaming portfolio, and will bring major franchises in-house to Xbox Studios. </li><li>With both Microsoft's next-gen Xbox and Sony's next-gen PlayStation launching this November, the acquisition has major implications for the next several years.</li><li>The next major entries in franchises like "The Elder Scrolls" and "Fallout" are likely to be exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox and PC platforms, leaving the PlayStation 5 out.</li></ul>Just days after Sony announced pricing for the PlayStation 5, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-buys-bethesda-softworks-doom-skyrim-fallout-7-billion-2020-9">Microsoft revealed a huge surprise on Monday morning</a>: The acquisition of the massive game publisher behind franchises like "Fallout," "The Elder Scrolls," and "Doom" in a deal worth $7.5 billion in cash.The deal for the conglomerate <keyword id="2222795" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="ZeniMax">ZeniMax</keyword> Media and its games publisher Bethesda Softworks will incorporate several major video-game-development studios under Microsoft's Xbox Studios umbrella, as well as the major game franchises they oversee.Bethesda Softworks oversees the studios ID Software ("Doom"), Bethesda Game Studios ("Fallout," "The Elder Scrolls," "Starfield"), Arkane Studios ("Dishonored," "Deathloop"), and MachineGames ("Wolfenstein").Critically, Bethesda Softworks and its myriad games are multiplatform — the company creates and publishes games for Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo platforms. Bethesda also has major games on PC, Mac, and smartphones. The acquisition by Microsoft is likely to change that for good.In an email exchange with Business Insider, Wedbush managing director Michael Pachter said it was "unlikely" that Microsoft will publish the forthcoming entries to major franchises on Sony's PlayStation 5 or Nintendo's Switch "after 2021." For the time being, Bethesda is likely to have contractual obligations to Sony for upcoming games that are already in production.One such game, "Deathloop," is a so-called "timed exclusive" on Sony's PlayStation 5 — meaning it wouldn't come to Microsoft's <keyword id="9735060" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="xbox-series-s">Xbox Series S</keyword> and Series X consoles until some point after launch. "Deathloop" was highlighted as recently as last week by Sony as a big upcoming PlayStation 5 game.That game appears to still be coming to the PlayStation 5 as an exclusive, despite the acquisition, according to Xbox head Phil Spencer.Spencer <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/microsoft-to-buy-bethesda-studios-for-7-5-billion-to-boost-xbox">told Bloomberg</a> that the game will remain exclusive to Sony's PlayStation 5, while upcoming games like "Starfield" from Bethesda Game Studios will only go to Xbox and PC. "We'll take other consoles on a case-by-case basis," Spencer told Bloomberg.<h2>Microsoft has been on a spending spree</h2>With the exception of the "Minecraft" franchise, which Microsoft acquired for $2.5 billion in September 2014, the studios that Microsoft has purchased in the last several years are dedicated to creating games for the Xbox and PC platforms. Obsidian <keyword id="4578" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="entertainment">Entertainment</keyword>, for instance, was acquired in late 2018. Though its first game under Microsoft was a multiplatform effort that launched on the PlayStation 4, the two games after that are exclusive to Microsoft's Xbox and PC storefronts.Across the last seven years, as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have gone head to head, Microsoft's Xbox has struggled to compete with Sony's PlayStation in terms of big exclusive games.Sony's PlayStation 4 boasts a vast portfolio of critically and commercially successful games — including "God of War," "Marvel's Spider-Man," "The Last of Us: Part II," and "Bloodborne" — that can only be played on the PlayStation 4. Microsoft's Xbox One, on the other hand, only has a handful of such games ("Gears 5," "Sea of Thieves," and "Halo: The Master Chief Collection"), and they can all still be played on PC if you'd prefer.<h2>The rise of Game Pass</h2>Instead, Microsoft has gone a different route.Its focus is on a new service named Xbox Game Pass, which offers a Netflix-like library of games that can be downloaded to your Xbox/PC or played remotely via the cloud on Android smartphones. Game Pass charges a monthly subscription that starts at $10, and includes all of Microsoft's first-party games at launch.It is, in short, a tremendously good deal for consumers — and with over 15 million paid users as of an announcement that also came on Monday morning, Game Pass has been the most successful of Microsoft's recent major pushes for Xbox against the dominance of the PlayStation.It's this service in particular that Microsoft intends to bolster with the purchase of Bethesda Softworks."We will be adding Bethesda's iconic franchises to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC," <a href="https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/09/21/welcoming-bethesda-to-the-xbox-family/">Spencer said in the acquisition announcement post</a>. Moreover, those games will arrive on the Game Pass service on the same day they launch otherwise for the next-gen Xbox consoles and PC — games like the highly-anticipated "The Elder Scrolls VI," and "Starfield," and whatever's next in the "Fallout" franchise.And they probably won't arrive on the PlayStation 5.Got a tip? Contact Business Insider senior correspondent Ben Gilbert via email (<a href="mailto:bgilbert@businessinsider.com">bgilbert@businessinsider.com</a>), or Twitter DM (<a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenGilbert">@realbengilbert</a>). We can keep sources anonymous. Use a non-work device to reach out. PR pitches by email only, please.

Microsoft just spent $7.5 billion to give gamers a major reason to buy a next-gen Xbox instead of a PlayStation 5

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Microsoft is buying a major game publisher, the company announced on Monday morning.</li><li>In a deal worth $7.5 billion, Microsoft is buying Bethesda Softworks' parent company, ZeniMax Media, which includes such gaming blockbuster franchises as "Doom," "The Elder Scrolls," and "Fallout," among many others.</li><li>The deal will bring all of Bethesda's game studios under the Xbox Studios umbrella.</li><li>"As a proven game developer and publisher, Bethesda has seen success across every category of games, and together, we will further our ambition to empower the more than three billion gamers worldwide," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in the press release announcing the news.</li><li>The announcement came one day before preorders open for Microsoft's next-gen Xbox consoles, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.</li></ul>Microsoft is buying the massive game publisher behind franchises like "Fallout," "The Elder Scrolls," and "Doom" in a deal worth $7.5 billion in cash, the company <a href="https://news.microsoft.com/2020/09/21/microsoft-to-acquire-zenimax-media-and-its-game-publisher-bethesda-softworks/">announced</a> on Monday.The deal for the conglomerate ZeniMax Media and its games publisher Bethesda Softworks will incorporate several major video-game-development studios under Microsoft's Xbox Studios umbrella, as well as the major game franchises they oversee.Bethesda Softworks oversees the studios ID Software ("Doom"), Bethesda Game Studios ("Fallout," "The Elder Scrolls," "Starfield"), Arkane Studios ("Dishonored," "Deathloop"), and MachineGames ("Wolfenstein")."As a proven game developer and publisher, Bethesda has seen success across every category of games," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in the press release. "And together, we will further our ambition to empower the more than three billion gamers worldwide."The announcement came one day before <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-buy-xbox-series-x-preorder-release-date">preorders open for Microsoft's next-gen Xbox consoles</a>, the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X, scheduled to arrive this November. This acquisition is intended to make the new consoles more enticing.All the games included in the deal will head to Microsoft's gaming subscription service, Xbox Game Pass. Moreover, upcoming games from those studios will launch on Game Pass.The deal "includes Microsoft's intent to bring Bethesda's future games into Xbox Game Pass the same day they launch on Xbox or PC, like 'Starfield,' the highly anticipated, new space epic currently in development by Bethesda Game Studios," the press release said.Microsoft has purchased several game studios since <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-buys-minecraft-2014-9">buying the Swedish studio behind "Minecraft" in 2014 for $2.5 billion</a>.Notably, Bethesda Softworks publishes games across both Microsoft's and Sony's gaming platforms. It is unclear whether future games from the publisher will still come to Sony's PlayStation consoles. A Microsoft representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Got a tip? Contact Business Insider senior correspondent Ben Gilbert via email (<a href="mailto:bgilbert@businessinsider.com">bgilbert@businessinsider.com</a>), or Twitter DM (<a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenGilbert">@realbengilbert</a>). We can keep sources anonymous. Use a non-work device to reach out. PR pitches by email only, please.

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