disolitude said:
Its a loss for sure...but you can't force a studio like bungie to work on something they don't want to work on. You will have a complete studio desctruction if you tried this. Just ask Activision... Like MS is prolly laughing a bit on the inside at how fucked up this may turn out for Bungie. They have had huge success with Halo and are proly a little cocky at what they can do and the market reaction they can expect. And Activision doesn't fuck around. |
Whilst that's true. Was there even any indication Microsoft even made a play for Bungie?
On Sonys side, when MM considered going multiplatform Sony immediately got in there and picked them up.
I just don't think Microsoft appreciates first party development enough, and if Patchers predictions are correct (no more 3rd party exclusives) then surely Microsoft are going to be forced to spend a whole lot of $$$ to hold exclusivity on games... and I don't think timed exclusivity impacts sales figures as much as they would like to think.
They could at least put Rare to good use. Rather than trying to abuse there backlog of developments and re-release them on Live.
