mibuokami said:
Why would refocusing development to the Xbox lead to a closure of a reputable studio with such a great pedigree? Bungie made the jump from PC to Xbox without getting the entire studio's image destroyed. Considering MS actually OWNS Ensemble this makes even less sense. Restructuring of this scale cost a lot of money, it simply makes no sense to close the studio down only to open another studio with the same employee unless MS deem that the resource allocated to it can be better spent or better managed. The only plausible explanation I can think of is that that some MS analyst predicted an increase in cost effeciency by this restructuring enough to offset the cost of the studio's closure. |
Perhaps they were consolidating into a new development process... there has to be more reasons than we know for the closer... I wish we could get the whole story.
