Bungie Denies Reports of Potential Microsoft Acquisition

Tsing

The FPS Review
Staff member
Joined
May 6, 2019
Messages
12,594
Points
113
destiny-2-new-light-1024x576.jpg
Image: Bungie



Sorry, Halo fans, but Bungie isn’t coming home. Contesting earlier reports from Venturebeat’s Jeff Grubb and Eurogamer (both of which claimed that the developer was in talks with Microsoft about a potential re-acquisition), Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has taken to Twitter to declare that all of the rumors we’ve been hearing are “false.” Evidently, the company is perfectly happy with staying independent.



According to earlier conjecture, Microsoft tried buying Bungie multiple times but failed because it couldn’t agree to the developer’s pricing demands, which must have been exorbitantly high (as you know, Microsoft has huge pockets and plenty of cash to throw around). While the rekindling of these gaming giants doesn’t appear to be...
Click to expand...

Continue reading...


 
Pete Parsons has been around since the beginning, so he knows what they had to go through with Microsoft the first time around. Any rumor that points to a deal with Microsoft will have very low credibility because of this. I could buy that Microsoft are desperate due to all the negative reaction surrounding Infinite and may have approached Bungie about reinvigorating the series, but that is as far as I would go.
 
I'm going to pull this rumor entirely from my ***: MS is in talks with Activision to port Blizzard's World of Warcraft to Xbox.
 
Never say never. If MS backed up a truckload of billions to buy Bungie, who there would say no? They crank out a couple of Destiny sequels exclusive to Xbox and then split again in 10 years.

Never say never when it comes to cold hard cash.
 
Burticus said:
Never say never. If MS backed up a truckload of billions to buy Bungie, who there would say no? They crank out a couple of Destiny sequels exclusive to Xbox and then split again in 10 years.

Never say never when it comes to cold hard cash.
Click to expand...

Not sure if they'd purchase them to continue Destiny or 'fix' Halo: Infinite.
 
SeymourGore said:
Not sure if they'd purchase them to continue Destiny or 'fix' Halo: Infinite.
Click to expand...

Is there anyone still working at Bungie who has ever touched a Halo game? I honestly don't know. Maybe time for Destiny 3 : The Halo of Destiny
 
Burticus said:
Is there anyone still working at Bungie who has ever touched a Halo game? I honestly don't know. Maybe time for Destiny 3 : The Halo of Destiny
Click to expand...
Don't know about active developers, but co-founder Jason Jones is still there as Chief Creative Officer. The CEO Pete Parsons was Executive Producer for Bungie when they were still making Halo games.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Become a Patron!
Back
Top