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Jaywood2010 on 13 December 2012
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Dallinor said:
JayWood2010 said:

Oh and I forgot to add.  Yes Microsoft owns Gears.  They said before that they would like to make it go multiplat but they can't.  Cliff Bleszinski actually posted a twitter update one day of him putting a gears sticker on the PS3 and saying "This is the closest PS3 will get to Gears" or something to that effect.  

Do they? I thought Epic own the intellectual property rights while MS have simply struck a publishing deal.

I'm sorry guys, I was wrong.  Gears is not owned by MSFT.  They however have a great relation ship with MSFT and Gears is paid out by MSFT.  I apologize.  I looked it up. Reins said in 2010 that it isn't owned by MSFT, it's just a publisher deal like you said.  

EDIT: This is what was said.

 Capps also stated unequivocally that the Gears IP belongs to Epic, and that it's their call which platform they release on, but that Microsoft has kept them happy in the past. "Time and time again, when it came down to figure out what we do next with Gears, we sat down with Microsoft and they've given us really good, compelling reasons to work with them again."