Hear me out, Bethesda hasn’t made a really successful game since Skyrim. their new overlords are more than happy to shuffle them around, and who’s to say Todd Howard won’t retire after TES6 is launched?
I’m seeing a lot of parallels to Bioware, with game after game not doing as hot as the previous ones, and XBOX being very trigger happy with axing studios that aren’t pulling their weight, similar to EA.
It’s possible TES6, if it releases, will be the make it or break it of the company.
Bethesda does not belong to EA so it‘s not as likely. EA will likely go before Bethesda does.
Microsoft has an equally appalling graveyard of studios it bought up and did nothing with, in its history
Yeah but EA is toast. Like actually done. They did not survive Saudi deal and the debt they were loaded with. Every studio of theirs will be closed and all IPs sold shortly.
XBOX shuttered Arkane and other studios already. they’re in cost cutting mode.
That‘s completely different from seizing to exist, though. EA got murdered from the inside in the dirty Saudi deal. Microsoft is in a completely different position so comparing Bioware with Bethesda is nonsense.