makingmusic476 on 25 October 2008
| 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. |
That's a lot of unnannounced games that we probably won't even see for at least a year, let alone get wind of a release date.
These studios just don't pump out games that fast. It's taking Bungie two years to make a friggin' expansion. Any new IP won't be released for at the very least a year and half after that.
Rare is the only studio that I could see pumping out games in a reasonable amount of time. Turn 10 as well, to a lesser extent. Rare are kind've like Insomniac in that regard.
Guys, the main point of this thread was to point out that MS tends to focus on third party titles rather than first and second party titles. So long as the games keep coming, is there anything wrong with that?
