So I wanted to make a quick news post, you know for the me that reads this blog. Seems the internet was right! Once again. Two big news items today. The first Sony is releasing the long-rumored 40GB PS3. Granted it's just in Europe right now, but it will be here soon enough I'd put money on that. Hopefully for Sony it will start to put them over the edge this holiday. An important holiday as far as install base is concerned, maybe not as important from the software side.
On the other side of the next-gen war, Bungie is free again! What does this mean for now? Well... nothing it seems. My guess is that soon enough there will be a more interesting result from this than what is happening right now. Over at Kotaku, they have a QA with Bungie's Community Director that doesn't really answer all the questions I have, but at least speaks to some of them. My thinking is that Microsoft was faced with the prospect of a majority of their favorite studio jumping ship because of the nature of their relationship. So, backed into a corner, they allowed Bungie to leave, while securing some level of exclusivity with them on their future projects. I can think of two possibilities for Bungie from this point. 1) They start work on brand new IPs which might start out with Microsoft but eventually end up elsewhere. 2) They begin to expand, leaving one team to work on whatever ridiculous Halo thing Microsoft wanted in the first place, while another team does that thing from part 1. If the first becomes true, it will be very interesting to see where Microsoft goes with Halo. Stephen Totilo had some interesting, and fun, speculation over at Multiplayer.
Big news for a Friday, it will be interesting to see how all this shakes out.
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