Seece said:
I doubt very much they would have told you anything, if you even got past the operator ... |
It's not like I was gonna call them and ask about it. There's a PR section, you know... and if you're an authorized news site, you'll get the statement. Just like some others did.
They will have to act fast or else.
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They'll probably announce a new, flagship Halo by 343 Industries and calmly point out they don't need Bungie.
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| CaptDS9E said: I love how today everyone is posting this as a shock. It's not. Microsoft played this correctly. Bungie wanted their freedom. So MS said ok, but you have to make a couple more Halo games to give us time to get a new Halo centric studio started. It's not like Bungie got bought by Sony people. |
I agree. Microsoft handled Bungies desire to be independent correctly. Ironically, Bungie made a deal with Activision, who's debacle with Infinity Ward is becoming a case study in how to improperly treat a developer that has produced great games and wants to branch out and do something different.
I give that post a 9.7.
Thank god for the disable signatures option.
Folks, this came out of nowhere. Nobody saw this coming. We weren't at all privy to what was going on behind the scenes here and its been in the works for some 9 months with not one leak.
So . . . any chance MGS has things we don't know about going on as well? Or are they just sitting on their hands losing everybody to other publishers, resting on their laurels?
does this mean that bungie will make games for the ps3 ?
Furthermore is there any chance that halo will appear on ps3?
| BenVTrigger said: With the news today of Bungie joining up with Activision Microsoft has lost another exclusive developer. It seems that MS cannot hold onto company's or exclusive deals [1]whatsoever and I do honestly think in the long run this is going to hurt them alot. With the reports basically everywhere that Splinter Cell Conviction is also going to be making the jump to PS3 within the next year it just seems that they are having a losing strategy. What MS doesn't seem to understand is timed exclusives boost in the short terms sure but for the long term it doesn't help you at all like a first party developer will [2]. So my question is when will MS start focusing on 1st parties and making 100% sure that they get real long term exclusive deals? [3] |
[1] This is not failure, MS does not TRY to hold onto developers. They work with developers and provide reasons for them to make games on the 360. If one developer decides not to make games exclusive for them anymore then they focus on another who will
[2] The extra revenue that the game brings to MS is more than enough to offset the moneyhatting they do. They can continue to use 3rd parties as hired developers for as long as they want and will continue to make a lot of money from this
[3] likely never, their strategy is working fine
I wonder what Microsoft next move will be. Now that their biggest dev is gone, they need something to stop Sony momentum as soon as possible. They're losing market share day after day now.
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