Today, Microsoft and Bungie announced that the relationship between the two is evolving. Basically, Bungie will be it's own company with Microsoft maintaining an equity interest (those are the words in the press release.) Furthermore, the release indicates that MS will still own the rights to all things Halo and there is some speculation that MS will also own any new properties created by Bungie. So ultimately, what does this announcement mean? I have no clue and it just sounds like a mechanism to garner more press for Microsoft and Halo, but the press release reads like this will somehow allow Bungie to be "more creative". I know the market is full of me-too products and the chances of having something truly unique show up is a risk many publishers are unwilling to take. I wish the new endeavor luck, but this smells much like the conversation I once had with an ex-girlfriend about our evolving relationship. She evolved to sleep with somebody else, and I evolved to be rid of her. But that is a different story - I would like to hope that this news would allow Bungie to build games for platforms like the DS and the PSP, and I believe that a DS title might be feasible given Microsoft's lenient view towards Nintendo. Only time will tell though...
Image courtesy of Joystiq since it is pretty good...Posted by Tim at Friday October 05, 2007 - 8:51 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Xbox 360 | © 2007 Gaming Signal