1 project no, future developement of exclusives yes.

They sold Rare because all the talent left the company and ironically formed free radicals.

Awesome reply, really you win this thread for that, I wished I had thought to remember that.  But yeah Factor 5 has a gold mine of talent, the reason they sold RARE was because they had no use for RARE if the talent quits what's the point?  If Retro doesn't do much in the coming years it could be the same fate for them, the head guys left to make their own company that will now be published by EA, I hope they can do well in the down economic times.  But Factor 5 is ripe for the taking good talented guys that know how to make the Nintendo console look the best it possibly can much like they did with the Rouge Squadron games. 

On the note of RARE, I mean really the big talent left then the other guys went to MS where they didn't do jack until Conkers Bad Fur Day on Xbox which was just a remake, then Perfect Dark Zero which was bad... and not very "next gen" like it was supposed to be... then you get B&K:N&B which is nothing like what people expected and not that great either, so the guys at RARE got paid for doing nothing/making average games at best by Mircosoft, I mean the RARE guys got a great deal, Nintendo made a smart choice by dropping RARE and MS has yet to get something worthwhile from it lol.

say that to the endless shovelware on the Wii

AWESOME FIRST POST!!!

Brash, wasn't it? Unless I have Free Radical mixed up with some other studio(s)?

These are just the start of ripple effects - wait until Feb/March, and you'll see the real effects from the subprime crisis flow through to the industry. Everyone is holding out until Xmas is over, and then will re-evaluate projects and studios.

And yeah... thinking this has anything to do with the "PS3" is ridiculous. Its mainly about a shoddy developer, rather than anything else...

Free Radical isn't a shody developer just had a goof on a game that took a huge budget then you factor in the econimic crisis and you have a good developer in the tube... sad really...

The shoddy developer being F5 of course, not Free Radical ;) Just wanted to make that clear...

O= Aside from Lair that statement is blasphemy!  The 3 Rouge Squadron games are some of the best Star Wars games ever made, then they have one of the best teams when it comes to getting the most out of a system, except for Lair again, but then again I think that was mostly due to deadlines and budget issues...

Lair and Haze were IMO decent games, they are often brought forward as being some of the worst PS3 shovel ware around. IMO that's not the case at all, I think there have been various 360 to PS3 ports which are well worse but maybe scored better because they already received good scores on the 360 orginally.

I think due to these games being picked on a lot on internet forums, mostly by people who never actually played them through, has hurt the reputation of these developers and so it's difficult to continue their work (find publishers, get funding, etc).

Lair has its wow moments, but lacks polishment overall, I greatly prefer its motion control but it was a mistake to not have this optional when the game launched. Haze is overall pretty fun, but now there are much better games out covering the shooter genre on the PS3.

MS not actually interested in Factor 5, nor Nintendo, Factor 5 hyping PS3 to the roof.

almost like when Ken K, said : dual HDMI, and 120 FPS games, and only PS3 can do 4D.

also remember High development cost on Ps3,
to Bad for Factor 5.