CaptDS9E on 06 July 2009
| scottie said: MS have been downsizing their 1st paty studios to give them more money for other things such as paying for exclusive games, dlc or timed exclusives, advertising 3rd party games, price cuts, R&D and not getting messed up too badly by the financial crisis It is inevitable that some of their franchises will not see new iterations, at least not in the near future |
Really? Last time I checked they added just as many teams as they cut. Don't count bungie, as they wanted to be an independent studio again. The studios microsoft owned which closed the last few years are Ensemble, ACES, and FASA. They have added Big Park, Halo Team, Wingnut Interactive(Peter Jackson project), made an internal Xbox Live Arcade team, and now the new Project Natal team they are hiring like mad for. They got rid of stuff they weren't focusing on, and used the funds for stuff they wanted to get going. Doesn't looking like downsizing to me.
As for Crimson skies, Microsoft sold or leased the rights to someone else.
