shikamaru317 said:
That's 1st party though. You can't really blame Microsoft's 1st party studios for wanting to work on their own IP's instead of taking on the daunting task of rebooting classic franchises that were huge successes. That goes for Rare as well, the name might be the same, but there has been alot of turnover at the studio, very few people from the Nintendo days left there, of course they'd rather work on new IP's like Sea of Thieves and Everwild than take on the daunting task of rebooting the old Nintendo era IP's. Frankly it's a miracle that Coalition was willing to take on the task of continuing Gears instead of working on their own IP, Shangheist, it must have been a scary decision for many people at the studio at the time.
MS could always turn to independent 3rd party developers and publish the games as 2nd party exclusives though, many of those independent AA/AAA studios are just barely hanging on, living hand to mouth, they'll take whatever work they can get, they're not going to be as picky about what they want to work on as 1st party studios are. A studio like IO Interactive, backed by a proper budget, could potentially do wonders with Perfect Dark, with somebody at MS handling the story. Likewise I'm sure that Playtonic would have jumped at the chance to work on an actual Banjo game instead of Yooka Laylee if MS offered them the chance, though MS would have to get them to modernize the design a bit compared to Yooka Laylee, since Yooka Laylee was criticized for being too retro. As for Conker, well I admit that one might be more tricky to pull off, you really need Chris Seavor to make Conker work, and he hates MS supposedly.
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