$90 million canned Halo MMO

[hobbit]

outlawauron said:

hobbit said:

outlawauron said:

Acevil said:
Ensemble gets shut down for still making good projects....but yet Rare still exists....

So true. One of the biggest wastes of money MS has spent in a long time.

Viva Pinata 1.62M

PDZ 1.31M

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts .69M

Kameo: Elements of Power .52M

Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise .37M

Conker: Live and Reloaded .69M

Plus some XBLA stuff

 

What has Ensemble released? a couple of expansion packs and Halo Wars. They had 6 cancelled projects; they were wasting money like crazy either they had to downsize and go back to making more Age of Empires games, or get shutdown.

None of that is very good. (and definitely not worth the $375 million paid for them + budgets of each game)

I'm not even a big fan of Ensemble, just saying that Rare has fallen hard and that the money spent wasn't worth it.

all those games were pretty good, and if they're turning a profit then they're worth it. They also have been working on tech and uprgrades for xbox. Ensemble wasn't working on anything when they were shutdown, they clearly were not worth keeping open.

The $375 million you speak of was an investment in the xbox brand. Considering the brand is profitable and worth billions today, i would say thats pretty good ROI.