Ryuu96 said:
Well, not including Playground because Microsoft doesn't own them, I'd say The Coalition is already Microsoft's MVP Studio, they've already in this short time gone ahead of 343 (Obviously not in terms of money) but everything else from their leader (Rod Fergusson) to how efficiently and quickly their studio was set up, to the games that they have released in such a short period, the general vibe that I get from the studio and them pretty much being Microsoft 'Go to' studio when it comes to technical things.
343 definitely needs to step up and I don't even think they need to do a new IP to do that (I strongly doubt 343 will ever do a new IP based on the fact that the studio was made for Halo and is in control of everything Halo with seemingly very little input from Microsoft) but they don't exactly need to do a new IP to do something 'new', for example if they did a Halo RPG it would be vastly different to anything they have ever done.
I'm kind of envious of the Gears side being more of a Halo fan because I believe The Coalition is doing so much better than 343 right now, I do however get a feeling that 343 is going through a sort of change recently when it comes to community (HCS, MCC, Openness, Listening) and games (Possibly delaying H6 and being more strict on what they green-lit)
Hopefully they're going through a sort of small scale restructure too, based on the number of senior staff movement going on in the past year it certainly feels like that is a possibility, I'm starting to slowly feel better about 343.
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Well what I mean about Playground Games is that they are effectively a 2nd party studio right now, all of their games have been with MS. With Forza Horizon 3 becoming a massive success and FH:4 looking to be even bigger I doubt that they would stop making that franchise for MS unless they get bored and want to do new things, also them getting Fable is pretty massive considering that's it's a top 4 MS IP that's a big responsibility that I doubt MS would have given to just anyone. I also doubt that it would be one and done with Fable 4 unless it bombs, they might be the permanent home for Fable if all goes well.
MS have better give them a long 2nd party contract like they gave Undead Labs, having a proven studio that has 2 teams capable of making AAA games in the fold would very valuable for MS going forward.
I'm thinking it could be like an Alan Wake type game, also it seems like State of Decay 2 news is on it's way soon too.
