Bethesda Veteran Pete Hines Announces Retirement After 24 Years

Will the guy in charge of writing finally retire too?

He seemed like a pretty cool guy over the years. Wish him the best after such a successful career,

“In somewhat related news, Microsoft last week announced Activision Blizzard had officially joined team Xbox.”
This is a funny/soft way to describe a trillion dollar company using their endless billons to buyout entire publishers because regulators are just as soft as the sites that cover this.

Best of luck to him.

You can buy the brands but not the people behind them.

@SalvorHardin

It's funny how Sony have pretty much had a monopoly in the core videogaming space for years now, and of course that was O.K, now Microsoft are fighting back and it's all of a sudden anti-consumer.... give me a break.

@johnvboy When did Sony have a monopoly on the core video gaming space? The only time they came close was in the PS1 and PS2 eras. But that is almost 20 years ago.

@SalvorHardin There's no need to be salty.

@johnvboy Any market share Sony has ever dominated has been based on hardware sales, not software, so the comparison is irrelevant. Nobody will deny that Sony has dominated the electronics industry as a whole.

Microsoft bye out and now the staff are retrieving it's Rare all over again 👋
But best of luck to him for the future 👍

@roboshort,

Sony have bought developers just like Microsoft has, and I guarantee if they had the funds, they would be trying to do the exact same things.

@Poodlestargenerica,

You gain market share by having the best developers and games, or are you suggesting people have bought Sony hardware based on purely the platform, not the software available for it.

@johnvboy Yes I absolutely am, the ps1-3 all sold hugely based on their prowess as first party Sony cd/dvd/Blu ray players respectively. Also because their hardware made game development easier, not limited to the mini disc's of the gamecube or the cartridges of n64, both more powerful systems than their Sony counterparts. The software developers then flocked to those systems once they started selling well. I would even suggest that something like twenty million ps2 units at least were sold just as dvd players, with games being an afterthought. This isn't some crazy theory, it's just facts. The ps2 has the best video game library of all time, but it's because the hardware attracted devs, not the other way around.

Lmao "incredible launch" 🤣. Starfield is just the next anti-consumer-pass failure, predicted by every intelligent gamer. No, he's doing exactly what every other high profile employee has done shortly after joining Microsoft. If you know, you know. If you argue this fact, you have zero knowledge of the truth. This was to be expected, he doesn't want to be attached to any more failures.

@johnvboy Sony never had a monopoly, this is a fact. Phil Spencer has gone on record making it clear he took Xbox 3rd party to gain more screens. He's buying big developers to have more popular IPs for what reason? A MONOPOLY! Once Xbox is on PlayStation it'll officially be on EVERY PLATFORM, and he continues to look for developers to buy. Only a fool would believe Phil has done any of this for the gamers.

@Poodlestargenerica Facts. PlayStation sold because cheaper and faster development time, which led to quicker turnaround and cheaper games. PS2 sold based entirely off being the cheapest DVD player on the market! That's it! As for it having the best library, not even close. It's got a great library, definitely near the top, but not the best. PS3 sold using the same tactics with Blu-ray, but just like PS2 gained traction over time with a great Library.

Edit: the GameCube mini discs didn't limit the games, this is a myth that's exaggerated.

@RobynAlecksys,

Like I said, Sony have also bought developers, as initially on the original Playstation, Sony just did not have internal software teams to make games for them, so over the years they bought games developers. The only real difference here is the scale and size of the developers purchased.