Lionhead is making a new IP actually, Turn 10 is comparable to Polyphony ( which last i checked aside from Omaga Boost on the PS1, makes nothing but GT games) Santa Monica though they have their hand in helping other studios are still pushing out nothing but GOW games in house,, Bungie is no longer MS and yet they are STILL going to be making Destiny for the next Decade. But yes continue to ignore this to make the same silly points over and over.
It's funny to me how many other publishes including Sony does this but it is only a Bad thing with MS. Whats even funnier is watching people bitch about new IP's when you actually have new IP's already out and coming down the pike, as in first party MS owned IP's. So what are people even bitching about if one developer is making Gears of War?
Is this supposed to bad series now or something? Because last i checked other than Judgement Gears is fairly critically acclaimed and sells damned well so what is the issue here? People still crying over something ( Shangheist) that wasn't even a game, all they showed was a CG trailer, that's all.
Again people want to make up fan fiction about the "EVOL M$" cracking whips and forcing people to make games they don't want to make , and continue to be divorced from reality.
Lionhead working on a new IP is news to me. A breath of fresh air considering they've been on Fable for almost 10 years straight. Fair enough with the Turn 10/Polyphony comparison. SSM WAS working on a new IP, but it had to be scrapped because of internal mismanagement, but they were at least given the chance. Bungie signed that 10 year contract on their own volition, and only after Microsoft denied them the chance to make Destiny as a first-party title. But yes, continue to ignore these points as well.
And personally, I don't think that "Shangheist" thing ever even existed. That trailer was probably nothing but lip service; a knee-jerk reaction to the criticism of the Xbox reveal. I agree that the game probably didn't exist.
And are you seriously trying to say that Sony does this as much as Microsoft? With the exception of Polyphony, it seems that Sony has at least given the chance to let their studios do different things. Microsoft wouldn't even let their Star Developer (Bungie) make Destiny under them. Only very recently has Microsoft seemed to change, and that's only a little.
I never said Gears was a bad series. In fact, I didn't bring up Gears at all. But if you must know, it's one of my favorite franchises of last generation and I do look forward to seeing the new one.
And I don't even know what you're on about with that "EVOL MS" bit. I never said anything of the sort. Sounds like a lot of projecting to me.