With the launch of the newest Microsoft console only three weeks, now is a time as good as any other will begin to wonder about the future of the franchise that they do not have a clear path ahead of them. Having addressed the future of Gears of War, IGN asked that Microsoft Game Studios head Phil Spencer on several exclusive Xbox and if we could see them again in a unlocked Podcast interview. Here is what he had to say about the prospects in Project Gotham Racing, Dance Central and Halo Wars.
"I am a big fan of Halo Wars," Spencer said when asked about the strategy in real time of Xbox 360 game. Since its launch in 2009, the spinoff strategy not have heard again. It was never released on PC (despite apparently being perfect) and developer Ensemble Studios closed after the end of the game. Founder of the study revealed that last year that Bungie was not satisfied with "the whore of [his] franchise". But now it's been years and Bungie no longer belongs to Microsoft, so what is the situation of Halo Wars?
"[Halo Wars is] something I'm very interested in." Bonnie [Ross, 343 Industries GM] and I talk about everything a little, "said Spencer. "I think that it falls in the shadow of the Halo Halo Wars FPS. That is, you're doing 10 units or 12 million FPS Halo, thing coming out Halo which does not reach those numbers, is easy enough for certain people to look at it and say, "Well, that didn't work". And I do not think that it is the correct measure of success; I think that Halo Wars was a high quality console-based RTS game. It was very funny.
"And especially now, when I think about the capacity - could roll their eyes this... but when I think of a voice and other things that you could add to that, that is the kind of game that I think it would be great in these scenarios. And also a game that maybe he could play on multiple devices: he could also play in Windows, could play in console, because it has that game that lends itself so well to that. So I suspect that we will be doing something with... are busy that now in 343, which is good, we are very pleased with what you are working on. But I believe that there is opportunity to do something more with this franchise and Bonnie, Josh [Holmes, creative director] and Kiki [Wolfkill, executive producer 343] are doing a great job by thinking holistically in the Halo franchise.
As to who would develop a game so, IGN mentioned entertainment Robot, age of Empires Online and Orcs Must Die developer which was founded by former employees of set. Spencer did not seem so sure that is the direction that Microsoft would, though. "Not spoken with Robot entertainment at a time," he said. "In fact, I don't know what is the status of that study. If we were going to do something we should not think of doing it internally or find a good RTS developer to help. There are a lot of great RTS developers out there. We'd do a good job with it."
Project Gotham Racing was the flagship of the racing series for Xbox, PGR1 and PGR3 being launch titles for 1 Xbox and Xbox 360, respectively. But being developer Bizarre Creations acquired by Activision in 2007 (and then closed in 2011), PGR have not heard of since the launch of PGR4 in 2007. With the first part slate game being quite full at the time of races, Spencer was particularly high on the possibility of a new PGR to be seen anytime soon.
When asked if the franchise has a future in Xbox, Spencer responded: "perhaps. I think that the system of congratulations that we had in the PGR was very secret sauce. I thought that it was what the people really loved. I had a great feeling, it was there at the launch, I think it was important."
Referring to rumors that circulated about a possible new PGR, Spencer said: "I think that some of the rumors around PGR were probably us working on Forza Horizon with playground, and I think people were just assuming that it was a game of the PGR." We are talking about [Forza developer head rotated 10] Alan Hartman and I, talked of the PGR. I think that we are squarely in the space of racing now when we think about our franchise, but I know that there's a lot of love for the franchise beyond out and it would be interesting to think about what we could do. I don't know that we would never have three console racing franchise. It is very similar to a first party with obviously Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon."
Interestingly, Spencer made to appear as if it were his own franchise Forza Horizon. When you said Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon are all Forza, Spencer said: "Forza Horizon, I would say, PGR to an arcade-style it, but not me sitting on a circuit lap after lap. It is more than one open world".
Dance Central, the 360 exclusive Xbox Kinect dancing series, saw annual releases between 2010 and 2012. However, even with an Xbox with the renewed 2.0 Kinect, there is no word on a new generation of Dance Central. Spencer says much of that drop to Harmonix to be occupied with the development of the fantasy and the fact that Dance Central is a Harmonix game.
"Having Dance Central on the platform again be great. Do you want to have the study well working on it, the right team, "he said.? When it was noted that team is Harmonix, Spencer's agreement: "is Harmonix. So this is not a situation where I thought that games should end with another study and simply take advantage of the brand or something as well.
"For us, it was a relationship of the second part, so it is not really a game published first-party, meaning the game financed it and marketed and distributed by them." So they control the destiny of this franchise. But I know well to Alex and we have conversations about it, and a great franchise. You can see more of Dance Central, but I think that we should do it at the right time with the study of law, which is Harmonix".
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