| Reasonable said: Playing the 'what if...' game, if I was MS I'd: 1 - focus on Natal launch and making sure it is well supported with titles 2 - use Reach/Gears 3 to keep the hardcore happy into mid 2011 3 - back a few exclusives like Alan Wake 4 - use the back end of the generation to build up more 1st party capability to support the next Xbox
After this gen most third parties are probably going to assume a split market again, and accept supporting multiple consoles much earlier in the gen - and current trends clearly show that relying too much on third parties only seems to last so far into a consoles lifecycle if the competition keep up with you (which has been the case). |
1. Done.
2. Almost done.
3. Happening right now.
4. Happening right now.
They will probably pick up another 2-3 studios on top of their present expansion of Rare, Turn 10 and Lionhead (into more than just a racing studio) however I suspect their growth will come more from internal expansion rather than external aquisitions and like 343 they will simply create new studios where there were none before.
Tease.
