Will Microsoft cease to have 1st party games? Another internal studio closed.

[Onyxmeth]

The_God_of_War said:

Onyxmeth said:

ymeaga1n said:

deathgod33 said:
not in trouble right now, but if they lose more 1st parties then its a problem. 3rd parties arent going for exclusivity anymore.

Says who? 

 

He's thinking of independent third parties that keep taking their exclusives and making them multiplat. What he doesn't realize is we're talking about games like Resistance, Ratchet and Clank, Motorstorm, Heavenly Sword, and Lair that were created by studios Sony doesn't own but made IPs they can't bring elsewhere.

 

 

Small correction- Sony do own Evolution Studios, the Motorstorm devs.

As for the topic, I really don't understand why MS haven't tried to increase their amount of 1st party developers. What they're doing seems like such a poor strategy in the long run. But what do I know, I don't run any game divisions.

I know they own them now. They didn't own them at the time that Sony released Motorstorm though. Back then it was merely a second party title, the same as MS is doing with games. They just happened to purchase them following it's success. What should be noted though, is that had they not purchased them, they wouldn't now be stuck with a studio making an IP that is showing it's not nearly as big as originally thought. Maybe MS is on to something by having the option to drop developers and IPs at will if they are unsuccessful. Too Human was a big fat flop, and if MS wants they can let Silicon Knights out of the contract and be done with them and the IP. It does seem to have it's benefits.