Does it hurt MS that they don't do any developing of their own?

I don't know, but it's not hurting them. However, if you look at Sony too, there isn't much in-game development. Insomniac and Konami and Square Enix all third-party although they act like a first party devs.dkhw

What are you talking about, SONY has WAY more going on 1st party than M$!

Not too mention Insomniac is SECOND PARTY, and the games they make FOR SONY are SONY's.

Also, Sony does own a stake in SE, so that may influence some of SE's decision's.

As far as 1st Party stuff, SONY makes A LOT more than you'd think.

Meanwhile, M$ just lost Bioware and Bungie, not mention others in recent news.

I don't know, but it's not hurting them. However, if you look at Sony too, there isn't much in-game development. Insomniac and Konami and Square Enix all third-party although they act like a first party devs.dkhw

insomniac be 2nd party

Microsft Games is now Microsoft Game Studios. Like sony they buy companies and merge them into there corp but keep the brand names and companies external to get wider appeal, sony developers very few inhouse projects off there own back.Zenkuso

Although Both companies buy out developers and such.

SONY has by far WAY MORE 1st party teams cranking out games for them.

Well they developed alittle thing called Windows.sSubZerOo

Which is amusing you can't surf the net on the 360, but you can on the "ONLY OTHER TWO" System's the 360 is competng with.

Why?

Perhaps people will DownLoad TV/Movie content more for 360 if they can't use YouTUBE, and various other sites etc on their TV's....

Meanwhile, M$ just lost Bioware and Bungie, not mention others in recent news.SolidTy

/boggle

Microsoft lost Bioware? Did Bill check under the couch yet? Oh wait... you have to actually have something to lose it.

[QUOTE="SolidTy"]Meanwhile, M$ just lost Bioware and Bungie, not mention others in recent news.gensigns

/boggle

Microsoft lost Bioware? Did Bill check under the couch yet? Oh wait... you have to actually have something to lose it.

Okay, let me rephrase. Bioware, a M$ second party, is now OWNED by multiplatform company extraordinaire, EA. What this means is we won't be seeing BIOWARE make games exclusively for only the PC/Xbox market like they did last gen. Sure, they got a DS game coming, but this is now one less avenue M$ can lean on for future exclusive IP's.

That isn't the only company either, M$ just lost a PC/XBLA RTS developer too...and M$ didn't have a large talent pool to begin with.

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"] Well they developed alittle thing called Windows.SolidTy

Which is amusing you can't surf the net on the 360, but you can on the "ONLY OTHER TWO" System's the 360 is competng with.

Why?

Perhaps people will DownLoad TV/Movie content more for 360 if they can't use YouTUBE, and various other sites etc on their TV's....

Yeah I don't understand this my self....

Would you want a MS developed game?

"You are about to pwn a n00b. Cancel or Allow?"

now that i think about it...i don't think microsoft has EVER developed a game, pc, or either x-box...darkspineslayer

Mechwarriors. And those were some damn good games.

EDIT: NVm loaded it up it's not them D:

They just publish. SkullboyX

i'm sure they are crying heavily as they wipe their tears away with $100 bills.