Christopher Weaver, now retired, thinks about the movement of the North American giant, which he considers positive for the company. Compare it to Bungie.
The purchase of ZeniMax Media by Microsoft continues to be talked about. This time, the founder of Bethesda, Christopher Weaver, who left the company in 2002, has described the movement as positive because it will be users, in his opinion, who can benefit the most from this business movement translated into the incorporation of 8 major studios to Xbox Game Studios.
“Buying Bungie was the trigger for Xbox success in its day”
In a meeting with Inverse, where he has also positioned himself around the exclusivity or not of the next Bethesda video games in the Xbox ecosystem, Weaver explained that this purchase reflects a “brilliant move against Sony”, a counterattack that gives response to the 14 internal teams at PlayStation Studios. On the part of Xbox Game Studios, the jump is from 15 to 23 studios, among which are Bethesda (Fallout, The Elder Scrolls), id Software (DOOM), MachineGames (Wolfenstein), Arkane (Dishonored) or Tango Gameworks (The Evil Within).
All Bethesda studios become part of Xbox Game Studios.
“Buying Bungie was the trigger for Xbox success in its day,” he adds; although then it happened to belong to Activision for years and is now independent. “I suspect Microsoft is consulting its library of games to try to repeat some of its ‘best moves.’ If the strategy works, it will be a brilliant move against Sony. Players from all over the world will definitely be the beneficiaries of this agreement. I wish them the best ”, he ends, addressing what was once his home.
Microsoft has declared that it will study case by case which video games will remain exclusively on Xbox consoles, apart from PC, where the Redmond firm also operates. Doubts now come from PlayStation 5 users, who with this individual evaluation policy do not have the certainty whether Starfield, The Elder Scrolls VI, the next DOOM or the next Wolfenstein will see the light on PS5. It all depends on Xbox, who will have the last word.
The common denominator of all of them is that they will be available from day one (like previous Bethesda productions) on Xbox Game Pass. Without going any further, DOOM Eternal arrives this October 1.
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