TechNewsWorld reports:
"It's been just one week and $300 million since Microsoft's Bungie Studios pulled off the biggest release in video game history, but rumors are already swirling that Redmond may cut Bungie lose. The possible divorce, though, wouldn't necessarily be on bad terms. Microsoft would probably hang on to everything 'Halo,' and Bungie could make big bucks in a riskier independent position."
InStat analyst Brian O'Rourke and WedBush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter speculate differently on what will happen between Microsoft and Bungie if they part ways, and Enderle Group principle analyst Rob Enderle provides a financial rationale for the split.
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
MS has already got other developers expanding the Halo universe with things like Halo Wars(Ensemble Studios). Halo was meant to be a trilogy and that is what Bungie stated from the beginning.. They didn't want it to turn into some Final Fantasy or Metal Gear where there is a million sequels that are much of the same.
This could end up being a good thing. Bungie may come up with another megahit. The important thing however is that Microsoft keeps the rights to Halo.
If Bungie does become independent then I believe they won't leave the MS family at all. It's like saying that Insomniac games or Naughty Dog will leave Sony despite them being independent studios.
This whole thing is MS loses Bungie, people might as well MS loosing MS. MS owns 100% of Bungie, ie there are no Bungie stocks, they are MS stocks. If some of the devs are tired of working on Halo this is what I thin S will do: The will hire more highly skilled employees into Bungie, then break split the Dev teams up. One or two teams will work on new IP's another will work on Halo games and content (remember Bungoe still has to do updates and stuff to Halo 3), and maybe a few people will start working with the director for the Halo movie. I think it would be good move to let a talented dev team like bungi work on some other games, they will probaly strike gold with another hit or two, thats a scary thought for some. MS will probaly will have first refusal right, which means that if a game is made then MS will have firs dibs, they can say yes this gme will be a MS exclusive or no we do not want that gae on our system(s) or make it multiplatform. If Bungie(MS) makes a game and MS tells them to go multi or make it for another system it would mean that Sony or Nintendo would be buying games from MS. It's as simple as that. I do not think Sony or Nintendo needs this and they would probaly stray way from it.
@Cheech-MS relationship with Bungie is not like Sony relationship with Insomniac. MS owns Bungie.
Hell no Microsoft will just get another studio to work on Halo games (like they are already doing) It will be as simple as that.