During yesterday, documents published on Twitter went around the world, confirming one of the most anticipated events by a certain type of videogame audience.
The regulatory bodies have formalized the acquisition of Bethesda by Microsoft, retroactively confirming all those rumors and news that over the past months had followed one another to the sound of whether the acquisition will be made this will be a reality.
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Confirmation of the operation was also given by Providence Equity, the main stakeholder of Zenimax which has marked Microsoft's investment on its website as approved.
There are two types of investment labels: active or approved. The former are investments that have not yet generated an economic return while the latter have done so. Specifically, according to the data collected by TweakTown, Microsoft has promised Providence a return of six times its initial investment in Zenimax Media.
Still no information has been released regarding the approval of the merger from the European side. We only know that Microsoft is still struggling through the paperwork to get it done but, for the moment, there is no other data to lean on.
It is difficult to think that this could lead to problems in completing the acquisition, as both companies in the acquisition are based in America.
Microsoft eventually bought Bethesda per 7.5 billions of dollars, a huge figure in the world of videogame entertainment. With this purchase the studies behind Doom, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and many other brands have ended up under the aegis of Xbox Games Studios.
This is funny if we think that, for a while, one of the few exclusive Sony consoles (that is, that total bomb of Deathloop) will be published by Microsoft. What will be the future instead
