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.
Arkane was a tragedy, a company that made it’s name from immersive sims forced to make a multiplayer, live-serivce game was destined to fail from inception.
I’d like to make this clear, I don’t like Bethesda for a lot of reasons I won’t get into right now, if there is one thing they’re still somehow good at is making money. Microsoft has never cared about review scores so long as their quarterly earnings were met/blown away.
Bethesda does a lot more than make one or 2 games a decade, they’re a successful publisher and recently a questionable developer (personally hated Starfield and Fallout 76). They have more in common with EA than they do Bioware in a business sense.