| EaglesEye379 said: Rare is working on two projects which are not VP related. Lionhead in two others, with Project Dmitri to be unvealed in 2009. Bungie is working on 3 new IPs and we know if the games have big multiplayer elements like Halo, they would prefer to utilise the infrastructure they have built with Xbox Live. MGS is working on 2-3 other Halo games not announced yet and who knows what else they are cooking internally. We know Gears 3 will come. Turn 10 are working on 2 projects. MS has built relationships with all the top publishers and developers so nothing is stopping new exclusive deals in the pipeline. And nothing is stopping other smaller indie projects or MS acquiring new talented studios. In the latest round of hiring top class talent, I dont see how people are worried about the manpower or talent. If anything, MGS is growing rapidly and has come a long way since Xbox days. Imho, the only people worried about the future of MS 1st/2nd party are the Sony fans here. The 360 owners here know there is hardly anything to worry about. |
To be honest, how much are these rare games exciting you? Neither of the games they are making for this fall have caught my eye much. As for Lionhead, as said elsewhere, they do take ages to make games, Sony of course have that problem in some regards, but I do like them (well give me a week to be sure).
How big is bungie? Those three games are going to take them some time, so I would probably expect 2 more on Xbox, 1 on the nextbox.
Are turn 10 big again? As MM said, they are probably making Forza and PGR, which is going to take them a lot of time
Also, I don't really like Halo, and they have to diversify more than just having loads of Halo games. They might do quite well, but I doubt that is really going to expand their market.
The issue is that they seem to be focusing on just getting 3rd party exclusives, and so obviously they could turn their policy round and start working with small devs and starting new studios, but Sony has already started doing that, and has invested in its 1st party, and with Insomniac releasing very good games every year, ND probably every 2, and several other major games coming from their first parties, with established and new franchises, Sony's 1st party is much stronger
