I've been in an Alien mood for about a week now and today's Scorn trailer from Inside Xbox prompted me into doing a little wikipedia scrolling and whatnot regarding Alien, Alien Isolation and Creative Assembly. The latter is the page that striked me the most since while reading it I started thinking "Wow, this team would suit perfectly as part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios!". I was very intrigued when I reached the end of the list of games made by Creative Assembly since after Alien Isolation, they have shifted their focus towards PC games, something Microsoft clearly has dear to their heart. The only exception in the past 6 years was Halo Wars 2, a game made using a MS IP and that was released on Xbox One on top of PC.
Alien Isolation also fits the ideal of strong single player experiences Phil Spencer has been pursuing to make the Xbox lineup more enticing so they could either license Alien from Disney (imho it'd be a massive get for Xbox) or come up with a new franchise entirely. Creative Assembly is also set in the UK, which would come in handy if the opportunity to co-develop or simply support development came up from the likes of Playground Games, Ninja Theory or Rare.
Of course this is all speculation, I wouldn't go as far as to call likely this purchase with no evidence, it'd be kind of a first for Xbox in the current generation to purchase a team owned by another publisher (SEGA), even going back by a few generations the Rare purchase doesn't fall under this category since Microsoft bought the 51% share that wasn't owned by Nintendo. However I find the possibility quite intriguing and I'm sure Microsoft would want to take it into consideration. Do you feel like Creative Assembly would be a good get for Microsoft ? Do you think this kind of purchase is feasible?
Alien Isolation also fits the ideal of strong single player experiences Phil Spencer has been pursuing to make the Xbox lineup more enticing so they could either license Alien from Disney (imho it'd be a massive get for Xbox) or come up with a new franchise entirely. Creative Assembly is also set in the UK, which would come in handy if the opportunity to co-develop or simply support development came up from the likes of Playground Games, Ninja Theory or Rare.
Of course this is all speculation, I wouldn't go as far as to call likely this purchase with no evidence, it'd be kind of a first for Xbox in the current generation to purchase a team owned by another publisher (SEGA), even going back by a few generations the Rare purchase doesn't fall under this category since Microsoft bought the 51% share that wasn't owned by Nintendo. However I find the possibility quite intriguing and I'm sure Microsoft would want to take it into consideration. Do you feel like Creative Assembly would be a good get for Microsoft ? Do you think this kind of purchase is feasible?
