So what will be Microsoft's respone to Bungie? And first parties?

[CaptDS9E]

I love how today everyone is posting this as a shock. It's not. Microsoft played this correctly. Bungie wanted their freedom. So MS said ok, but you have to make a couple more Halo games to give us time to get a new Halo centric studio started. It's not like Bungie got bought by Sony people.