hum still nothing concrete in that last article..... a source close to bungie... man that could be the post man of the office next door for all we know...... I'm probably more often in contact with bungie personnel when my clan plays them than the guy informing "game informer"...... they are tired of Halo and ????? it's over... it's clear and definitive.... why would they need to spend money buying the company back to stop doing Halo ??? when it's actually not happening anyway...... doesn't make sens to me... now they still have the bungie/peter jackson Halo project... and they will do it... nothing to do with the FPS though....
but that article is just telling me one thing it's that game informer doesn't know jack shit for sure on the subject and tries to fill in a news to get some traffic on their website.... nothing less nothing more..... and their news could be true but is really not making a lot of sens the way they justify it....

 MS was on the videogame hardware market way before Sony.... and MS will be doing more and more hardware in the future..... of all kind... not only VG...... just wanted to comment that....

Not to shove this specifically in your face but since you're the first random one I found that said this was retarded this is for you-- HA!

 I don't know why everybody thinks investor are not happy with MS even with XB loosing money...... you do realise MS is one of the company making the biggest net income in the world.....the number one company in net income in the software industry.... and that net income has been going up anyway in the past 5 years.....???? I don't see why they wouldn't be happy......  the only thing they can say is damn we could make more money guys... but bitching against a company that already make them earn more money than most company on the market that's sounds odd....

at the same time sony net income went down on the past 5 years... nobody is asking them to stop making PS3 or talking about unhappy stockholders because they don't make profit on their machine and probably won't for a while... when MS is way closer to make one.....

well I still don't understand why people want MS stockholder unhappy when actually it's probably what should be said about Sony's one....  

 He deserves it just for comparing Bungie to Cadilac. He could have at least choose a decent branch of GM.

And once again to the people that said this rumor was retarded: HA!

There is another link here from gamespot: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/halo3/news.html?sid=6180462

Seems most likely to me that Bungie just want to make some 360 games that MS may not be interested in publishing. Something more creative.

Small chance of them doing some form of Wii title - no chance of them doing a PS3 title.

Big news, but doesn't change too much, other than for Bungie and Microsoft. Bungie will probably still make XBox exclusives for the forseeable future; they just want more freedom, seeing that they appear to already have financial security.

I doubt Nintendo is going to give Bungie the go ahead to make a Metroid game when Microsoft would be the ones that would publish it instead of them.