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Part of me wonders why they didn’t buy Zenimax instead of Microsoft, and make the games Stadia exclusives. Good library, Google could afford it, and it would sh
by easton 6y ago
Part of me wonders why they didn’t buy Zenimax instead of Microsoft, and make the games Stadia exclusives. Good library, Google could afford it, and it would show how powerful the platform was (since things like Doom are the high action games people usually think suck on streaming).
It’s like they built the tech, which is probably some of the best stuff out there (Stadia had less stutter for me than GeForce Now), and then they forgot to hire a few good business people to actually run the product, and then they wondered why it didn’t work. Why wasn’t it all-you-can-eat?
Why didn’t they produce a single first party game from beginning to end for the release? Nothing makes a lot of sense here.
- ibero 6y agoi imagine Google did not buy Zenimax because they seem to operate on a very compressed timeline for their new projects which makes any corporate courtship hard to pull off. so unless Google came with an obscene "instant yes" offer to Zenimax then both sides would have had to enter some kind of protracted negotiations and talks, which doesn't seem to jive with Google's half in/half out attitude towards new products.
- metiscus 6y agoCan you imagine the outrage over Google making the next Elder Scrolls Stadia exclusive? I think a move like that might displace EA at the top of the hate pyramid for a bit. Microsoft is going to have some issues if they make the next Elder Scrolls and Fallout permanently XBox exclusive, and that's a well established console franchise that is well accepted for using exclusives to differentiate from Sony etc.