ewwwwwwww......thats litteraly the most stupid thing I've read in a LONG time. I would have much rather them have joined up with someone like EA than Activision. Look at how Bobby Kotick treats his employees. Look what they did to fucking Infinity Ward. This is the same man who said he wants to take all fun out of gaming. And Bungie joins up with them? Their choice I guess and I'll still support them but if they wanted to go multi they should have signed up with EA, cause Activision is the most corrupt piece of shit company in the industry.

Who cares about future Halo games when they're made by an unknown dev... lol

They could still sell due to the name, but other than that, real Halo = Bungie and it's over.

Bungie games is what cares.

What I find more interesting is:
What if this new ip flops and/or Bungie simply decides to not make a second game in the same universe ?

1UP: Is Bungie now contractually obliged to give Microsoft first-look on future titles, Halo-related or otherwise?

Jarrard: We aren't at liberty to discuss the specifics of this business arrangement but suffice it to say that we look forward to continuing to work with Microsoft as a great partner and world class publisher.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3163440

WN: One of the details that was going around before the official announcement was that Microsoft was going to have right of first refusal on the games Bungie was making — or is it the case that Microsoft Game Studios is the publisher from here on out?

FO: Microsoft Game Studios is our publisher for two projects that we’ve announced, and beyond that I can’t talk about the details of the deal, because we are a privately held LLC, but on the other hand Microsoft is a publicly held company, so they might be able to talk about those details in more depth than we can.

Its unlikely that it would be a limited time deal that would expire in 3 yrs as that would be to short of time for Microsoft to exercise its benefits, either GameInformer got it wrong or Microsoft didn't want the new game. Well, theres other possibilities I guess: Bungie paid MSFT to get out of the deal( would likely be in the $50+ million range); the new game may not be out for another 2 yrs pushing it out of a 5 yr deal; or the deal was for a fixed number of games and bungie has hit that mark, maybe the next bungie game is still exclusive? and the new IP from this deal is going to be down the road.

There was a nice discussion in this thread aboput bungie, halo, future projects etc etc.... but then Brennan came in to ruin the fun.

You said MS shopuld buy / build 1st party studios... Do you really think this way? You prefer Sony consoles, someone might even call you a fanboy, but I won't go this way. Imagine MS really goes out and buys studios They could buy Remedy, Epic, Mistwalker, Valhalla Games, Valve, Bioware and Capcom with the money they earned this month... Do you really want this? Please be honest.

MS has a lot of talented studios and probably a lot of games in the pipeline we haven't even heard of yet. Lionhead, Rare, Turn10, 343 Industries and Firebird Studios all have at least one game in development we don't know anything about yet.

And they have awesome 3rd party support. Actually the best  for any  console. Remedy, Epic, Mistwalker say Hi.

We knew that Bungie would go multiplat since 2007. The one thing that makes me wonder is why they picked Activision. I hope Activision does not ruin Bungies games in any way.

Whilst that's true. Was there even any indication Microsoft even made a play for Bungie? 

On Sonys side, when MM considered going multiplatform Sony immediately got in there and picked them up. 

I just don't think Microsoft appreciates first party development enough, and if Patchers predictions are correct (no more 3rd party exclusives) then surely Microsoft are going to be forced to spend a whole lot of $$$ to hold exclusivity on games... and I don't think timed exclusivity impacts sales figures as much as they would like to think. 

They could at least put Rare to good use. Rather than trying to abuse there backlog of developments and re-release them on Live. 

You haven't got a clue. 343 Studios is a First Party Studio built by M$ last year. LOL. Some devs from Bungie are already working there. And more go there after Reach is finished. LOL. Halo is far from over. LOL.

You know what 343 is in Halo right?

exactly what I was thinking

Lol you really think there'd be any viability in purchasing big publishers like Capcom or Valve? These are god awful examples. I'd be happy to see them buy Mistwalker, Epic (doubt Epic would go for it since they have other obligations). Remedy isn't viable either, 1 game every 5 years is not good enough for the nature of the games they produce and Bioware is a subsidiary of EA... So Mistwalker and Valhalla games... sure why not. 

They need to be looking at snapping up new and upcomming developers rather than pre-existing and heavily established. 

@Dirty : It's not that I 'want' MS to buy studios. I just say that if they want to compete in the long run, that's the only thing they can do in my opinion. I just wonder why they don't now that Sony is taking market share.

Clearly MS strategy is different (Betting everything on Natal ? Being able to leave the market one day easily ? I don't know)

360 is successful enough now so it won't die anytime soon and will get like the PS3 every 3rd party multiplatform games. The problem is not there.

But after that ? Why should I choose the next Xbox over PS4 ? Only console exclusives can help me decide, and only studios can make exclusives...

Bungie was making some. Now they're going multi, I know I'll play their games elsewhere if I want...

So on one side (PS4) I have the tons of Sony exclusives + every multiplat.

Or on 720, only the multiplats plus what ? If there are tons of exclusives too, it'll be ok but right now, I don't see the studios they need, it's just not there now. Only major one left is Epic and they can leave anytime.