In a recent interview, Xbox and the studio he was pushed out of in 2002. After co-founding Bethesda parent company ZeniMax in 1999, he served as CTO until 2002. Following his sudden dismissal, there was a legal battle between the two parties that was resolved out of court. Weaver, who still holds stock in the company, moved from development to academia after leaving Bethesda, currently teaching computational media at Wesleyan University and MIT.
making money off of a competitor's machine. When asked, Christopher Weaver has a pretty definitive opinion on the matter.
In an interview with Halo: Combat Evolved.
When asked what the acquisition might mean for huge games currently in development, Weaver states that he has "yet to meet an executive who does not want to accelerate the sale of a potential product." That being said, he also feels that Microsoft respects Bethesda's 34-year history in the industry and their "proven ability to produce quality software." Considering the state of their other recent acquisitions, and even the turnaround Rare has had from the Kinect days, it seems like a good assessment that Microsoft will not try to bulldoze the processes that created games like Fallout 3, Skyrim, and Doom: Eternal.
At the end of the day, Christopher Weaver does not have any more insight than anyone else on the outside into the dealings between Bethesda and Microsoft. However, as a series of educated guesses, his talk about how he sees both companies interacting in the future seems on the money. Microsoft would not spend $7.5 billion on a company's assets and possible killer apps like the hotly anticipated Starfield only to freely share them with their direct competition. One of Xbox's biggest problem has been a lack of signature game franchises, and this purchase gives them just that. They need the average gamer to think Xbox when they see the Doom Slayer or Vault Boy, and handing those games over to Sony does nothing to accomplish that goal.
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Source: Inverse
