Can anyone think of an IP that was made better AFTER it was sold?

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J_Allard said:
Are we talking literally sold, or just new developers taking over and making it better? Big IP's aren't typically sold.

But you could look at what Retro did with Metroid, Treyarch with CoD, Ubi Shanghai with Pandora Tomorrow (IIRC they developed it), 343i with Halo 4, Rockstar with Max Payne, or 2k with Bioshock for recent examples of other developers taking over big franchises and either producing equal/superior or at the very worst, just "great" results.

We're talking about literally sold -- whether through sale of a business unit (like when Nintendo sold Rare to MS) or sale of the IP directly.

The publisher and/or the core dev team had to significantly change from prior releases.