People are taking a lot of stuff way out of context here. Regardless of if this is true or not, I'll speak hypothetically as if it were true. Regarding losing the marketing power of MS I'd always thought that it was the publisher, not the developer, who handled marketing. If Microsoft do retain first refusal on the rights to publish future Bungie games then they still have their marketing strength behind them. Why would they put the money behind marketing a game for a development studio they don't own anymore? Easy, their primary focus is likely to get more people to buy more consoles, and if Bungie's future games are good, they can push them with the whole "from the makers of Halo" thing. About the leaving the ownership of Microsoft issue too. This doesnt automatically mean "OMGZ! Theys is goign to stops making games for my ThreeSixOh!". Bungie's fanbase and main market is in the USA and then followed by Europe, where I believe sales of the 360 are firmly trouncing the PS3. They also have experience developing for the 360 as a platform already, so just abandoning it straight out the gate would be a rather foolish decision at a time when they'd need to act in a way to ensure that the company can stand on it's own feet without Microsoft's direct support. Remember that they didn't manage this before. Whether this was due to them not adapting to the changing enviroment of game development or their not entirely successful attempt at expansion with Bungie West I don't know. They would have gone under if they weren't bought out by MS back then. Finally about Bungie's history as a developer. The Marathon and Halo games shows that they've got a very solid and strong basis as devlopers of FPS games. The Myth games were rather good RTS games in my opinion, and as I remember they were somewhat critically well recieved. I cannnot speak for their commercial success though. Oni is a different matter all together. It was developed by Bungie West, I don't know the full details of how closely tied it was to the creative force at the main Bungie development studio, so how strongly you want to consider it under their track record is up to you. Either way it's not an awful game, whilst also not being great. If anything to me it feels like it was a great idea that they didn't get to execute properly, either due to time or budgetry constraints. So in short, if they do leave Microsoft it probably wont be the end of them and they will likely go on to produce other good to great games. Also they'll likely stick with the 360 as a development platform too, or for the near future atleast. Of course, why I'm trying to put a rational series of thoughts to persons on the webs is beyond me. You can carry on with the baseless reactionary yells and whimpers now.