sth88 on 31 October 2013
This was a fantastic interview. I definitely recommend that everyone check out the whole thing, even though it's long (about an hour). He covers a lot more ground than the snippets that OXM got in their article; not only does he discuss working with third-party developers like Epic and Respawn, he also talks about building talented internal studios from the ground up (like 343i) as well as the fact that he has a "green light" to buy studios if he wants to.
He puts it best when he says his primary focus is to bring great games to the platform, not acquiring developers. Working with independent studios can be just as good as buying them up and incorporating them into the 1st-party family.
