"Bungie left" like you can just leave as you wish. Microsoft let them go.
I never said they could leave as they wish. Microsoft let them go because they made it clear they wanted to leave. Distressed assets are of little value. There is nothing about Destiny that precludes MGS from funding and publishing it so why did they not? Because they had no interest in allowing Bungie to branch out. So Bungie cut a deal where they put in two more Halo games, left the Halo IP behind and bounced. Compare, once again, to Sony who were willing to
back Insomniac on a game even though they did not think it would sell.
343i and Turn 10 will work on only Halo and Forza, its something both they and the fans want. No one is tired of them as some people here like to beleive. Coalition on the other hand has been hinting on working on another IP for a while
https://gamingbolt.com/gears-5-developer-on-making-a-new-ip-never-say-never It’s a terrible answer, but it’s a ‘never say never’ thing,” said Fergusson. “We’re The Coalition. We wanted to brand ourselves around the franchise. We were looking at Turn 10, and we were looking at 343, and going...
www.neogaf.com
Nothing in that link indicates or hints that they will be working on a new IP. Fergusson literally just says "never say never" indicating that he has no idea and no control. Dude does not even work at the Coalition anymore so who cares what he says? Notice how hardly anyone in the thread you linked believes they will be allowed to make new IPs. Bungie was "open to" making new IPs as well, how did that work out?
Rare has been doing as they wish for a while though, Sea of Thieves and now Everwild.
Like I said: Middling results. In this generation they have released Killer Instinct (73 meta), Kinect
Sports Rivals (60 Meta), Rare Replay (84 Meta) and Sea of Thieves (67 meta). When the best game your "do as they wish" (and second largest) studio puts out in 7 years is a compilation of
old games, that is a problem.
( Most other studios were doing as they wish though and so is true for newer studios. Playground Games doing a RPG. Ninja Theory doing Project Mara alongside Hellblade II(and building a second studio). Obsidian working on multiple projects. Undead Labs opening second studio for new IP.
You are willing to ignore Polyphony and San Diego(might I add Santa Monica studio too), but chose to go after the whole of XGS for 343i and Turn 10.
I do not go after Turn 10. Like Polyphony I doubt they have interest in working on anything else and the sim racing genre is pretty niche as it is. Having a studio dedicated to it makes sense. I give San Diego a pass because they make a YEARLY sports game. Like other yearly sports dev teams I doubt they have the time to work on anything else especially because they have to develop for multiple platforms now. I give Mojang a pass too because they started out pretty small and Minecraft is their baby. I would hope they get into something new this upcoming generation, though.
Sony Santa Monica does more than develop their own games, though. They are like a coaching studio that helps co-develop games like Fat Princess.
343i, Bungie before them, Lionhead, The Coalition, and PlayGround all have only ever handled one IP since being acquired by MS. 5 other devs have yet to release a single game since being acquired. The new studios are being allowed to do as they wish because they have no track record of success yet. If they do they will turn into a mill like the Coalition.
Sony has closed more studios than Microsoft
989 Studios (closed in 2005)
Bigbig Studios(closed in 2012)
Contrail(closed in 2000)
Evolution Studios(closed in 2016)
Incognito Entertainment(closed in 2009)
Studio Liverpool(closed in 2012)
Zipper Interactive(closed in 2012)
Guerrilla Cambridge(closed in 2017)
Team Ico(closed in 2011)
Manchester Studio(closed in 2020)
Microsoft also lets outside studios have a crack on their IPs. Forza Horizon by Playground Games(they were an outside studio and it is now more popular than the main series), Gears Tactics by Storylab Productions, Flight Simulator by many different studios over time etc.
Strawman. This is not about who closes more studios. You said that Bloober will grow under Microsoft. I questioned their track record of actually helping their devs become better than they used to be. There is a reason the HaloGearsForza narrative exists: Because for years those have been the only games you can count on from MS being decent.
