Ensemble founder speaks about studio closure

uh, actually, far from it.

iirc, Capcom, despite the low sales, was still supporting them, but they closed Clover due to the fact that the "heads" had already left.

Ensemble in the other hand, these guys have a sales record of over 20 mil copies, that said, their main forte was the RTS genre.

The only reason that seems SOMEWHAT logical about this is that it was profitable for Microsoft to keep them afloat as is, and instead are trying to form more internal studios.

IMHO this strategy will come back and bite them in the ass, they should do as Nintendo and Sony and keep the whole studio standing, I mean, it really hurts the employees.

I find silly that people think that there isn't going to be any Age Of Empire. Er hello people, MGS still own the rights, and all they done is got rid of the name 'Ensemble'.

How long have Ensemble and MS been together? 10 Years+? Its a good run will it lasted, MS cannot keep on going wasting money anymore, Shadowrun was a flop, it wasn't even that good.

Age Of Empires 3 wasn't that good, but don't forget one thing, MS still own the I.P's to all these games, and they have to shuffle the business because of these happenings.

@Geoff900

Shadowrun was only a "flop" because it wasn't propperly promoted by Microsoft. No one knew of the game because all the advertisment funding was held for Halo 3, which was more of a disapointment. Clearly you have never played the game and base your opinions solely around reviews and the falsly created "stigma" around the game. The game was something fresh and new rhe FPS genre needed and the few people initially interested, and those in the media that controlled the publics opinion of the game were merely bitter that it didn't follow the Shadowrun history exactly and wasn't an RPG. If Gertsman's review wasn't altered for Shadowrun after his embarassing firing then you could see for yourself what I mean. You're just another mindless drone comforming to the masses misguided opinions.