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badgenome on 09 September 2008
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Zucas said:
Shadowblind said:
Zucas said:
Dude something is going on with MS. I mean first letting Bungie go. Then the closing of FASA studios. And now rumors have sprung up about both Rare and Ensemble going away. Seriously what's going on with MS.

Worst-best case scenerio time:


Best: They are getting a massive amount of experienced coders together to create Microsoft Gaming Studios Developement team so they have an insanely strong 1st party dev team.


Worst: They don't plan on making another Xbox and are getting rid of most of their devs.

 

yea well if you've noticed Microsoft Game Studios has been nothing but publishing games not creating them which doesn't bode well for anymore 1st party titles outside of companies they own.  So the best case seems unlikely.

As for the worst to tell ya the truth at early 2007 on another forum I was talking about how possibly if things didn't go well with MS they'd start dropping some of their developers and exit the gaming industry and stick to the PC software world where they'll only publish games.  Of course I thought they would only dropoff Rare and Bungie and I was thinking they'd sell them.  Letting Bungie go without sell was a huge surprise to me haha. 

So maybe MS is looking to get out of the industry I mean it's possible.

If they were aiming to get out of the industry, would it make sense for them to have just cut prices? I mean, they probably went from profitable to just breaking even/selling at a loss on the Arcade model. It's not impossible, but given all their talk about their long term strategy lately, it would be fairly surreal if they're just about to shut down the whole Xbox experiment.

@Jagged: Bad find. You owe us some happy news now.