With Bungie soon able to cast off the shackles of Halo and pursue fresh IP, Bethesda's Ashley Cheng has been talking about the studio's future, and positing that only a very small number of publishers could afford to snap up the house that built Halo. Naturally, Bethesda is one of them.
"I suspect Bungie only owes Microsoft two more games and they're done. Halo ODST and Reach and that's that. No more Halo for Bungie," states Cheng. "You can count on one hand the number of publisher's around who can afford to publish Bungie's next game: EA (via EA Partners), Activision, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and of course, Bethesda. I can only imagine how much it will cost to snag their next title."
Cheng also adds that Sony would be a possible contender as well, but that a Sony-published Bungie game would be "unlikely." It would certainly be quite interesting, and one can only imagine the fanboy fallout that would ensue from such a move. I really think Sony should go for it, as it'd be hilarious.
In the meantime, who wants to stump up some cash so we can buy Bungie's next game?
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8:40 AM on 07.27.2009
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If Microsoft was smart, they would publish and fund Bungie's games in exchange for exclusives and let Bungie have more freedom to make their games instead of rehashing more Halo shooter games.
Won't happen, purely because they would have to hire a ton of new people to work on the system and possibly restructure the studio.
It would certainly be possible and hilarious, but I'd expect that their next title is at least ported to the PS3.
Actually, they should do it, eliminate a good chunk of the gaming world's fanboy population in one fell swoop.
But OT, Bethseda man in unsubtle hint non-shocker. Fishing much, mate?
And yeah, Sony releasing a Bungie title for PS3 would be quite possibly the most entertaining thing ever, just simply because every games site in the world would end up with comment threads that read like 4chan on PCP.
Oni, apparently property of Rockstar, so you'd have to ask them.'
Myth, already happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2RVje3MyhQ
Master Beef shall be his name.
I would consider buying a that as they would probably make it a cartoony looking cell shaded Halo with Wii controls. That wouldn't be half bad.
This just in.... 'Bungie's next game is set to be an episodic point and click title'
halo 3 had another open ending...
oooooohhh... maybe master chief is still going to be in the new ip since like there will be new enemies according the the ending of halo 3
o_O
@Chronic Logic: One admittedly great developer would not be enough for the Mac to dominate computer gaming.