Last week was held the Xbox 360 Showcase in San Francisco, and we've had the great opportunity to spend some quality time with the bests game designers of the Microsoft pool. We start today with their boss, Shane Kim, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Games Studio.
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Too bad you couldn't interview Denis Dyack, I would've looked forward to that :(
Geez.
Geez.
He's as good as any other "decent" PR in the industry.
Fire Him to put WHOM in his position? There'ya go...
He's as good as any other "decent" PR in the industry.
Fire Him to put WHOM in his position? There'ya go...
The Bungie situation was a wise decision, and the farewell of Bizarre (2nd party) was NOT his call (Activision).
What's really changed? Other than a great REAL 2008 Titles, contrary to some other systems, i don't see a big problem with their 1st Party line-Up.
They just seem to have way better 2nd party deals and nose to find/make them lately, than sony/nintendo... I don't see the problem with that.
The Bungie situation was a wise decision, and the farewell of Bizarre (2nd party) was NOT his call (Activision).
They just seem to have way better 2nd party deals and nose to find/make them lately, than sony/nintendo... I don't see the problem with that.
But bioware really is a PC Dev at's core, and feeling cornered to just think to spend that amount of money for securing a franchise, is a little insane. Rare insane, to say atleast.
It's giving it's fruits now, but spending the big dollars that way isn't as wise as securing IP rights to publish "a title".
MGS strengths are all about the mix of good 1st & 2nd party. Hell, they have so much good internal IPs already they could explore ( motocross madness, midtown madness, rallysport challage, crimson skies, shadowrun ... both freely licensed to other dev studios, like they're obsolete ), why would they start a buying freenzy?
It's not like they are on the xbox early days when there Really was a need to secure software for the first debut in the business.
PS3 is ending up more interesting that way with exclusive racinggames like GT and Motorstorm etc..
All other good racinggames are multiplatform.. So MS really needs to act if they want to stay on top when it comes to racinggames.. Atm to me it looks like they're dropping the ball in that department..
Expanding Turn 10, and letting them work on a awesome RSC3 next to Forza 3 would be a good move imho.. The next PGR can wait a little (already had 4 installments of that game)..