If Obsidian Made a New Perfect Dark

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Cobretti2 said:

CaptainExplosion said:

Yeah, Microsoft has been that way with Rare IPs old and new. They didn't really market the new Battletoads, and I haven't seen any marketing for Sea of Thieves other than social media. Doesn't give me a lot of confidence about how they'd treat a new Perfect Dark.

That is what worries me as they have Halo and Gears that are 100% more important to them than a Perfect Dark game. 

Now with the new purchase, what other similar franchises that have been established for years and built an audience will slot above Perfect Dark in terms of importance? They spent 7billion so they will want to ensure those franchises do not sit on a shelf. 

Halo and Gears are staple IP's for Microsoft and they haven't really stepped a bad foot in terms of sales and reception there really. They need those games to have some prestige as they are landmark games.

Perfect Dark though a big IP back in the early 2000's, is still unproven for Xbox. For the time they've owned the IP they released Perfect Dark Zero back at the launch of the 360 and that tanked, badly. Its easy to see why they are cautious about it and play it safe for the last gen. But now it seems like Microsoft has been given to green light to go all out and it looks like they want revive this franchise with its newly built strong looking team.

It'll be interesting to see how it turns out like anyway. It should be good considering the talent hired so far at The Initiative.