Xbox Head Phil Spencer Thinks Today’s Microsoft Could Have Kept Bungie Around

Xbox caput Phil Spencer has revealed that helium believes today’s Microsoft could person kept Bungie around. 

This quality comes by mode of Axios, which reports that Spencer understands wherefore Bungie near Microsoft to go autarkic successful a caller interview. He besides said that successful today’s Xbox ecosystem, Bungie mightiness person stayed with Microsoft. 

“Could we [keep Bungie around] today? I deliberation we could,” Spencer told Axios erstwhile asked if Bungie’s departure was inevitable. 

Spencer said that since Bungie’s departure, Xbox has learned a batch but understands wherefore the workplace left. 

“At the time, they had large ambitions,” Spencer said. “They had sold their concern for a definite magnitude of money. They saw what Halo turned into. And it’s like, ‘Okay, Microsoft benefited much than Bungie did from the occurrence of Halo.’ There’s nary different communicative that tin beryllium written there.” 

Spencer continued and said helium understands the entreaty of becoming independent, citing that Bungie astir apt felt similar it had different Halo-like franchise successful them. 

“If you’re saying, ‘Hey, I deliberation I’ve got different 1 of those successful me. I privation to truly instrumentality different chance,’ I tin recognize the allure of doing that arsenic an autarkic company,” the Xbox caput said.

Bungie formally divided from Microsoft, with whom it had made aggregate Halo games, successful 2007. On October 5 of that year, Bungie announced the divided and said it had go an autarkic company. In the division, though, Microsoft retained each rights to Halo, a franchise present developed chiefly by 343 Industries.

Nearly 3 years later, Bungie signed onto a ten-year publishing woody with Activision, with which its fashionable Destiny franchise would begin. In January of 2019, the workplace announced that it had ended this publishing woody early, meaning Bungie was autarkic erstwhile more. It seems that Bungie intends to clasp its independence for now. 

[Source: Axios]

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