{"id":118309,"date":"2020-09-21T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/microsoft_has_just_bought_bethesda_giving_it_doom_fallout_elder_scrolls_and_wolfenstein"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:10:00","slug":"microsoft-has-just-bought-bethesda-giving-it-doom-fallout-elder-scrolls-and-wolfenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/microsoft-has-just-bought-bethesda-giving-it-doom-fallout-elder-scrolls-and-wolfenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Has Just Bought Bethesda, Giving It Doom, Fallout, Elder Scrolls And Wolfenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/03b468d82bc1a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/03b468d82bc1a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"BethesdaXbox\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/03b468d82bc1a\/bethesdaxbox.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/03b468d82bc1a\/bethesdaxbox.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"BethesdaXbox\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Microsoft has just purchased Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion, giving it ownership of franchises such as <strong>DOOM, Wolfenstein, Elder Scrolls, Dishonoured<\/strong> and <strong>Fallout<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The deal means that Bethesda&#8217;s studios \u2013 Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog and Roundhouse Studios \u2013 are now part of the Xbox family.<\/p>\n<p>How does this impact Nintendo? Well, Microsoft is pretty friendly with Nintendo right now and we&#8217;ve seen Xbox titles such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cuphead\">Cuphead<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ori_and_the_blind_forest_definitive_edition\"><strong>Ori and the Blind Forest<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ori_and_the_will_of_the_wisps\"><strong>Ori and the Will of the Wisps<\/strong><\/a> jump over to Switch; there&#8217;s no reason to assume that the same won&#8217;t be the case with future Bethesda games, but time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>Switch has already benefitted from several key Bethesda titles, including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/doom\">DOOM<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/wolfenstein_ii_the_new_colossus\">Wolfenstein II<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/elder_scrolls_v_skyrim\">The Eldar Scrolls: Skyrim<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just purchased Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion, giving it ownership of franchises such as DOOM, Wolfenstein, Elder Scrolls, Dishonoured and Fallout. The deal means that Bethesda&#8217;s studios \u2013 Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog and Roundhouse Studios \u2013 are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}