Bungie and Activision Announce Exclusive, Worldwide Partnership

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Brennan on 29 April 2010

bobobologna said:

Brennan said:
Yeah sure, losing their main exclusive dev (Bungie) and letting him going multiplat with Activision won't affect 360 at all. Er, what ?

It's not like 360 had tons of flagship developers. They had only one, Bungie.

Lionhead and Epic? I know Epic isn't owned by Microsoft, but they are close, like Insomniac and Sony.

Fable and Gears of War are the highest selling HD exclusives not named Halo or Metal Gear Solid. And Metal Gear Solid is now multiplatform.

I don't think Microsoft is going to be "hurting" from this news.

Epic is 3rd party and could go multi anytime soon.

Lionhead is not really a AAA dev, but yeah that's basically all that's left now...

MGS is not multi at all since MGS4 is only on PS3 and MGS5 (Peace Walker is MGS5 according to Kojima) is only on PSP. Last time I checked those are Sony platforms.

MGS Rising is only a spinoff, as stated by Kojima himself. He didn't work on it at all and neither did his team until very recently.

So don't dream too much about real MGS going multi, it's not happening anytime soon.

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disolitude on 29 April 2010

Brennan said:

disolitude said:

Brennan said:
Yeah sure, losing their main exclusive dev (Bungie) and letting him going multiplat with Activision won't affect 360 at all. Er, what ?

It's not like 360 had tons of flagship developers. They had only one, Bungie.

Seriously dude...don't you see you are the only one waiving the fanboy flag around here.

Do I have to list the exclusives that Sony list from last gen? Ms didn't lose any here...

Don't worry about MS, they have enough cash to by Valve, Epic and every other remaining independent developer if they wanted to. The key aspect is that Bungie did not want to work on Halo anymore and you can bet they are not a cheap team to secure. Now MS has an oportunity to use that cash and get top end tallent to make the next Halo game.

Otherwise maybe next bungie title is a rail shooter...

I could list those MS lost to PS3 too, like Bioshock, Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean, Ninja Gaiden, Braid, GTA Episodes, so many more...

And yeah, MS just lost any future exclusivity for EVERY game from Bungie, so it's huge and it's actually a lot worse than losing just one game. It will matter a lot when people will decide between Xbox 720 and PS4... It further increases the already big gap in exclusive quality and quantity.

No amount of PR spin can change facts, which is it's a bad news for MS and a good news for Sony.

Then go buy some Sony stock or something, but stop falming already...

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BoneArk on 29 April 2010

Why did Bungie sell their souls the gaming devil? I think has something to with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

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Recon1O1 on 29 April 2010

Does anyone else remember reading that Activision wanted IW to take MW TPS? Did I just misread comments on TPS mutli-p modes? Can't find the article now.

I continue to hope for a third-person series set in a new universe. Ship-to-ship fighter action and boarding parties in zero-g. Neither Bungie or Respawn are going there. IW either. Oh well. The beta testers would all barf and that would be that.

Both Bungie's and IW's rented workhorses had been flogged pretty hard imo. Time for a change.

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Boutros on 29 April 2010

It won't have much impact on the 360 really. I mean we're too far into the gen for that.

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Brennan on 29 April 2010

@Boutros : it will clearly impact the NEXT gen more than this one. On that, I agree.

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snyperdud on 29 April 2010

Well, shit.

I don't know what's worse. That it finally hit me that Reach is the last Halo game (made by Bungie) or that Bungie is teaming up with Activison.

Add me on Steam

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JaggedSac on 29 April 2010

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=244775

MS Response:

"Our partnership with Bungie as a first-party developer for Xbox 360 remains unchanged, and right now we're deeply engaged with them on the development of Halo Reach, which is poised to be the biggest game of 2010."

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