good good MS is strengthening the first party..this could only mean good things for the future

I hope so, MS needs to start making those new IP's. I think they want every new game to sales a but load like Gears and Halo and when it doesn't happen they abandon that franchise. 

Well you can't blame them. It is a business and it is about making money. Not selling 200,000 copies of a game to make the minority happy.

Even some of the games that get past a million never get heard from again like Lost Odyssey. 

To be fair Lost Odyssey was part of microsoft's push for Japan, where they were trying to get a ton of exclusive jrpgs. When the stratagy didn't work it made sense not to continue securing jrpgs.

Though I do agree microsoft has plenty of ips that they aren't using anymore simply because they aren't multimillion selling games. They should just lower the budget of those games. I never understood why microsoft was willing to spend billions on advertising for the casuals but aren't willing to take losses on some games to please their core base. It seems as if an exclusive sells under 2mil, we will likely never see a sequel.

I think just a few unique games could really grab the attention of PC gamers who otherwise won't be missing out much considering so many 360 console exclusives are also on the pc. I know xbla has some great content, but most of it ends up getting ported to the pc as well. 

Then again this is from our perspective. And people who are browsing a game sales website are among the most dedicated gamers, so maybe in reality those small exclusives make a negligible difference in console sales. 

+ Valve
+ Pixar
+ Retro
+ Pandemic
+ iD
+ EA
+ Bioware

They have people from at least from these studious

Rare (Perfect Dark, Donkey kong)
EA
Pixar (Animaton-movies)
Kojima Productions (Metal Gear Solid)
ID Softvare (Doom, Quake, Rage)
Retrostudios (Metroid Prime)
Ubisoft
Bungie (Halo, Myth, Marathon)
Valve (Half Life, Portal)
Bioware (Mass Effect, Dragon Age)
Rockstar

according to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFO_E_Gl3Ow

Not quite news worthy... employees switch employers all the time.

I hope 343 isn't restricted to just pumping out halo titles....
they obviously have enough talent to create something else, lets hope ms lets them