Project Gotham Racing's future in flux

%50 million? Let me guess, you didn't do too well at maths.

Well, he does spell Microsoft with a $...

money hats for all! oh and by the way Microsoft already owns the PGR ip.

Actually I'm pretty sure only MS does this kinda thing. They're not just tossing around money, they're funding development just so the game can be on their console only.

They've already paid off Mistwalker (Lost Odyssey), Square (Infinite Undiscovery), Remedy (Alan Wake), Tecmo (Ninja Gaiden 2), and god knows who else in the future.

Honestly, I'd rather the developers deside for themselves what kind of games to make and what console to make them for. Just look at Blue Dragon. Do you honestly think the game would've sucked so much if it wasn't funded by greed? If it was developed for something like the Wii? I doubt it.

And now MS has paid off Team Ninja, a team once dedicated to only developing for the most powerful console, which I'm sorry to say the 360 is far from.

I think I'm done ranting now :)

Mr P,

Did you hear that Sony just bought the dev that created MotorStorm?

Paying a dev to create content and buying the dev to create content are the same thing.

Tecmo was the PUBLISHER, not DEVELOPER of the Ninja Gaiden series, that was Team Ninja, which has been partial to the Xbox for the past 6 years. MS is now the publisher, either by securing rights or by Team Ninja approaching them. How games get publishers is not a scandalous secret.

Blue Dragon? That had to be the lamest arguement I've ever heard. A game sucked because it was funded by greed?! News flash: EVERY CONSUMER ITEM IS FUNDED BY GREED. Do you think Nintendo invented and marketed the Wii out of the kindness af their hearts? That must be why they sell the console with the least features with the largest profit margin... Give me a break. Blue Dragon was the game that is was (for better or for worse) for the same reason any other game.

Get off the "MS is Satan Incarnate" kool-aid. As evil as greed is, it's rather hard to pin it on the corporation who gives the most to charity each year. Am I a delusional Bill Gates fanboy? No, but neither am I a delusional Sony or Nintendo fanboy. I do however favor the Xbox 360 console for a variety of valid reasons and opinions.

and Project gotham 5 will now be made by bungie!

HDR

It's an overcast sky, which being from Tornado Alley, I can say from experience that it is an accurace representation.

In fact, I thought it looked photorealistic.

They get more flak because of their monopoly (90% +) over the Operating System market

Windows makes it virtually impossible for otherwise objective people to like Microsoft, but they certainly aren't the evilest corporation in the world (Blackwater USA, or maybe Rosneft), or even in the tech sector (that position being soundly filled by FortiNet Realtime Network Protection)

I've called them m$ for years.. mainly stemming from their monopoly days and the fact that they are loaded. It's not a bad thing. It just means they have bank.

Now... it's also possible that some call them m$ because they're one of the only companies that can make a billion dollar mistake and still survive.

I believe Sony leaves network related things to the devs and such. That way they don't have to maintain it and charge people money to play online.