Phil Spencer is 'Looking Forward' to Working with Bungie After Split with Activision - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 March 2019 / 3,027 Views
Developer Bungie announced recently it had acquired the complete publishing rights to the Destiny intellectual property from Activision and will now publish the franchise in the future.
Head of Xbox Phil Spencer took to Twitter to announce he was excited to work with Bungie.
Looking forward to a very bright future working with one of my favorite independent studios on one of my favorite franchises. Excited to see how they continue to grow and evolve Destiny.
— Phil Spencer (@XboxP3) January 10, 2019
Bungie was the original creator to the Xbox franchise Halo and was owned by Microsoft until they became an independent studio in 2007. After Bungie left Microsoft they developed Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach before releasing Destiny in 2014.
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Working with, hopefully not owning.
"Fooled me once, shame one you. Fooled me twice, shame on me." -Bungie
Is this a threat?
Well. Good luck for Spencer. I guess. =
We're talking about a simple tweet regarding major news in the industry. The chances that it means anything, other than the simple pleasantry that it appears to be, are almost none.
Phil Spencer is just a swell guy. :D
He's been the principal person responsible for turning the Xbox around. Not a whole lot he can do about sales mid-gen, but he's been really cool in the (limited) cooperation with Nintendo and Sony. He's less about keeping up Microsoft's silo and more about improving the end user experience.
Correct me if I'm wrong, though.
He wasn't put in charge "mid gen" but soon after the beginning of the gen, he was already one of the top leaders for almost 10 years (head of the studios), and he's been directly responsible for all the software dev failures in the last few years (Fable, Scalebound, Crackdown...).
And where do you see that he turned Xbox around? Xbox was number 2, they're number 3 now that the Switch released, and the Xbox One X (made 100% under Spencer) didn't change anything.
It's always the same thing, Spencer fans say "It's not his fault, he made things better". But he was involved with Don Mattrick, and he didn't change anything except friendly looking PR.
Good ol mates reunite. Its strange and i highly daubt it will happen however there are articles saying MS are not done purchasing studios.. i wonder..
No chance that's what you go. Dream on.
Dont they want anything to do with MS after the halo debacle
@DaveTheMinion13 - Some would argue Desinty has been a debacle.
Either way, I don't think they need each other. Unless Bungie is somehow struggling to fund projects or wants spend MS's money.
Bungie were never the same when they left MS.
Come home Bungie
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