Sega has signed a partnership with Microsoft

[Mr Puggsly]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I think you forget 3rd parties created IPs like Gears, Halo, Fable, Minecraft, etc. As long as MS is willing to throw money at projects they can get new IPs.

Hence, they don't need to create new studios to get new IPs. Furthermore, the trend from Sony and MS has been closing studios but working with more 3rd parties.

Its evident MS is gonna keep pumping out exclusives and funding games from 3rd parties. And more importantly they'll keep getting notable support from 3rd parties because that's what really sells core consoles.

I wouldn't mind another Condemend, but the RE7's modest performance may not encourage that.

I think Fable was developed while Microsoft owned them. Thats true first party from the ground up, just like Forza. At least with Lionhead they controlled the company and dictated the pace to which they carried out their development (even though the franchise never lived up to Molyneux's hype). 

I know they have the cash to make the studios, they need to just do it and stop pay third party who want to do their own thing. Third party dont want to just make one game for Microsoft forever. They want to be known for being creative and having a catalogue. Microsoft looks at game development as if you just find one hit (because they dont have many )hold onto it for dear life and milk it to death. We're already at the 7th Forza in god knows how many years.

With that said, I agree with that the condemned would be welcomed from Sega. No offense to Sega, but I think Black Tusk had the talent to make a better game than they could dish out and actually have it cater to the taste of Xbox gamers, which is usually shooters.

Just looked up Lionhead, they developed Fable years before MS purchased them. Lionhead was a struggling studio and that's when MS acquired them. Fable never lived up to the hype but Fable II is a pretty amazing game.

When Sony and MS get a hit from a 3rd party studio, they sometimes acquire that studio, have another 3rd party work on the IP, or put the IP in the hands of an internal studio. The problem with your arguments is you ignore trends or have no knowledge of the points I made.

Forza has become a benchmark racing series and the annual releases differ greatly. I find it funny nobody complains about MLB The Show and many other sports titles being annual with typical sports game tweaks yet the Forza series catches flack inspite of doing something unique.

If a new Condmened was going to happen and assuming Monolith can't work on it, I'd suggest the Outlast studio. I haven't played the Outlast games, but at a glance those seem inspired by Condemned. However MS could also fund Alan Wake 2 and there might be a bigger audience for that.