Was commenting on the fact that Bungie's Halo is now 343's Halo and Epic's Gears of War will now be Black Tusk's Gears of War, how do you guys feel about a franchise IP leaving their original developers for another studio?  With mostly the Xbox division, IPs are being moved around to different studios, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.. Killer Instinct is now by Double Helix.  Good game, but it feels it's missing something compared to when it was Rare's IP.  Same thing with Halo after it went to 343 and eventually with Black Tusk and any future Gears of War IP.  Imagine on the other side of the coin if an Uncharted game was not made by Naughty Dogs (though the vita game doesn't really count) or if God of War (again, psp/vita ports don't count, tho good in their mobile way) was not by Santa Monica.  Heck, even LBP3 is being helmed by Sumo, and I don't know if Sumo will do that franchise justice.  Moving IPs around within your studios are fine as long as the studios have a proven track record, but what about the studios that don't?  Just like I really wonder how Black Tusk's version of GOW will be or a Rachet and Clank or Resistance game not by Insomniac.  A GTA not by Rockstar?  Just wondering what you guys think.

And if anyone wonders, I didn't include Nintendo because they tend to move their IPs among their own internal studios, which isn't too bad of a thing because much of their internal studios have pretty good track record of keeping the IPs going.

edit* also trying to do some research on some great IPs that have failed due to studio changes... Will update (maybe) if I find any.

edit** IPs that failed due to Studio Changes

Metroid: Other M

Usually I dont like it cause I do feel as though that most of the time, the IP either gets totally wrecked or its not the type that the fans wanted or it feels as though it was made by fans of the IP and not the original vision that the developers had... Heck, I will even give you a Nintendo example... Metroid, the Other M was made by team Ninja and it was probably one of the worst if not the worst Metroid games ever

I forgot all about Metroid Other M.  If I remember correctly, game tanked in reviews and sales.  Thus a metroid game hasn't been made since.  This is what worries me about Nintendo and their talks of willing to outsource their franchises.. I still very much have nostalgic attachments to many of Nintendo's franchises and I don't want to see them get butchered up.

DmC is another example. Outsourced to ninja theory, I believe? 

I don't really mind it much, but i can understand why it concerns some people when an IP changes hands.

I'm not worried about LBP3 though. The series already has a very solid foundation for them to build upon and Sumo are being guided by Sony's XDev team.

DmC was actually a great game, though.

Not really sales. It beat a million, which is more or less the baseline for its own franchise. So it didn't do well, but it didn't tank.

Only it wasn't.... At all....

I felt this too.. got some good enjoyment out of the game.  different? yes! bad? not really.

It had its flaws but i agree, DmC was a good game :/