Halo Game Developer to be Independent of Microsoft
Microsoft announced that Bungie Studio, the studio which developed the highly successful Halo Franchise is going Independent. The developers wants to go back to their roots and work for themselves rather than for a corporate owner.
A big downfall for Microsoft. Everyone knows, the popularity of Microsoft’s Xbox consoles was dependent on the highly popular Halo Franchise. In other words, Xbox woudn’t have been Xbox without Halo.
Bungie’s Halo games have been of singular significance to Microsoft in the development of its video game machine business.
Halo has been available exclusively on Microsoft’s Xbox video game consoles. That has meant the game’s popularity has helped drive consumers to the Xbox consoles rather than to competing systems made by Nintendo and Sony.
Now that the studio is going Independent, I woudn’t be surprised to see their games on Sony and Nintendo consoles in the future. I hope Microsoft knows what it’s doing.
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with the recent success of Halo 3, with a whopping record-breaking first day sale…
Bungie is really looking for freedom from Microsoft… but I wish there be more “HALO” games to come
Hi Jaren. Yeah. Any game developer would want that. But Microsoft has done a lot of mistakes already and now losing such a great asset.. Tsk tsk.
well as far as I know Bungie would still create awesome games for the Xbox 360 and the PC. but I think being independent would give them the freedom to explore new gaming technologies and gaming genres.
That is so true. I’m looking forward to their new creations. Maybe a spin off of Master Chief in a new genre? Just a thought..