Microsoft has announced its intentions to purchase ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion. That brings Bethesda, Machine Games, Arkane, id Software, and more storied game developers under the Xbox umbrella, and while it's the biggest acquisition Microsoft's gaming division has yet undertaken, it's probably not the last. Microsoft's CEO hints that the company isn't done with the buyouts yet.
Microsoft will consider buying more videogame developers in the future, Satya Nadella tells CNET. The company's goal is to keep building out the content that it can offer on Xbox and PC through additional internal studios making even more games. "You can't wake up one day and say 'Let me build a game studio'", Nadella says. "The idea of having content is so we can reach larger communities."
Xbox Game Studios has already acquired a number of third-parties over the years, including Bungie in 2000, Rare in 2002 and Mojang in 2014. In 2018, they started a much larger series of acquisitions, and have since bought up Compulsion Games, inXile, Ninja Theory, Obsidian, Playground, Undead Labs, and Double Fine.
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