Squilliam said:
I wonder if they will be like Mistwalker? A small core team, outsourcing their big work to a pool of software development talent somewhere else? Like these people are the core designers but someone else does most of the boring jobs coding the games?
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I think they will be similar to Rare. They might develop some games, but will be used mostly by M$ for whatever new thing they have coming out. Probably develop some APIs for external developers and internal teams to interface with the new thingamajig that M$ is making. Also, provide some extra man power for external devs that need help. M$ is actually quite nice in this regards as they are willing to bend over backwards with support for clients.
I am fairly certain that Rare helped a pretty good deal with the 360's\Live's APIs and the NXE and possibly XNA, so this new Studio will probably be used in a similar manner. Then again, I could be completely wrong.
