Mr Puggsly said:
Very impressive, with every post you become an even bigger troll. They didn't pump half a million into, "a shovelware filled peripheral." That pumped half a BILLION. The Kinect is gonna sell a shit ton of units. On top of that, it'll boost console and software sales. I'm sure MS has plenty to spend on games as well. I'm confused about the Ensemble Situation. Perhaps MS felt they didn't need a studio that was pretty much dedicated to creating RTS games. However, Robot Entertainment which is former employees of Ensemble are working on Age of Empires Online. Perhaps they also wanted to leave so they can do whatever projects they desired. |
I think it had to do with Microsoft wanting to focus on Xbox instead of games for windows, which clearly was in disagreement with Ensemble's speciality.
There was probably more to it than we know of course, but it sucks anyway, Robot entertainment has some of the former guys from Ensemble, but others also formed a couple other studios, and they lost their precious IP, so it's not like they're just not under Microsoft anymore.
