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Skeeuk on 29 April 2010
Slimebeast said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Slimebeast said:
Honestly I'm a lil worried about the whole Xbox project. What if they pull out after this gen?

Why would they drop out now? The 360 has been a great success and MS has a nice share of the gaming market. Isn't that what they set out to accomplish?

Yeah, maybe it's exactly that - mission accomplished - we stopped Sony to take over the living room so why are we gonna spend more billions on the Xbox?

Remember even the X360 is a loss affair.


id have to disagree.

360 will still have a slew of exclusive content.



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nightsurge on 29 April 2010

Why did you switch your avatar to a Bungie one all of the sudden?



dobby985 on 29 April 2010

Microsoft gained the rights to Halo as part of the deal to let Bungie become independent.



zgamer5 on 29 April 2010
dobby985 said:
Microsoft gained the rights to Halo as part of the deal to let Bungie become independent.


what are microsoft going to do with halo? how many halos have been out? are they going to keep on milking the franchise for ever? most 360 owners love bungie, this will be a let down for them. what microsoft have to do them is to start another franchise.



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pippin on 29 April 2010

Maybe this could end up good for the Halo franchise.Maybe new developers will bring an air of freshness into future Halo games cause let's admit it...Halo 2, 3 and ODST were great games but did anyone see a huge progress in the IP since the days of the first Halo?



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oniyide on 29 April 2010

hopefully MS will now try to start making their own games and not rely on 3rd parties so heavily. Thats y Sony is getting their ass kicked this gen. When they started putting out their own games you saw an upswing in sales. oh and MS should just give back Rare, they aint been doing crap anyway.



nightsurge on 29 April 2010
zgamer5 said:
dobby985 said:
Microsoft gained the rights to Halo as part of the deal to let Bungie become independent.


what are microsoft going to do with halo? how many halos have been out? are they going to keep on milking the franchise for ever? most 360 owners love bungie, this will be a let down for them. what microsoft have to do them is to start another franchise.

Did Nintendo ever stop milking Mario?  Or Zelda?

There is nothing wrong with making a game in the Halo universe especially if they follow different paths and take different stories.  There have only been 5 total Halo games, only 3 were full Halo FPS games, one RTS, and one expansion type game.



FastFord58 on 29 April 2010

PGR? big LOL. Definitely not a pillar game. And MS still has Halo so...



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MonstaMack on 29 April 2010

343 Studios begs to differ. They will make plenty of Halo games, and they are also comprised of former Bungie employees.

Turn 10's Forza is an amazing racing Sim that will most likely surpass what PGR did in sales, and garner better reviews.

Rare, well let's just forget Rare is even out there :P

MS still gets attention from third parties to go multiplatform (Devil May Cry, Virtua Fighter, Final Fantasy and Tekken were all once exclusives if you recall) and most multi platform games with the exception of Fighters, Tomb Raider and a few others sell better on the 360.

I hardly feel MS is "doomed"



It's just that simple.

Mummelmann on 29 April 2010

Lol, I think they'll survive without PGR and Halo after Reach is out. Its not like they don't have any other games on their system. The MS 1st party situation might not be the best right now but the 360 has by far received the best 3rd party support this gen next to the DS, which more than makes up for it.