{"id":434579,"date":"2025-11-06T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/xbox-head-phil-spencer-thinks-todays-microsoft-could-have-kept-bungie-around\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:49:41","slug":"xbox-head-phil-spencer-thinks-todays-microsoft-could-have-kept-bungie-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/xbox-head-phil-spencer-thinks-todays-microsoft-could-have-kept-bungie-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Head Phil Spencer Thinks Today\u2019s Microsoft Could Have Kept Bungie Around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Xbox head Phil Spencer has revealed that he believes today\u2019s Microsoft could have kept Bungie around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This news comes by way of Axios<\/a><\/em>, which reports that Spencer understands why Bungie left Microsoft to become independent in a new interview. He also said that in today\u2019s Xbox ecosystem, Bungie might have stayed with Microsoft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCould we [keep Bungie around] today? I think we could,\u201d Spencer told Axios<\/em> when asked if Bungie\u2019s departure was inevitable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spencer said that since Bungie\u2019s departure, Xbox has learned a lot but understands why the studio left.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time, they had big ambitions,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cThey had sold their business for a certain amount of money. They saw what Halo turned into. And it\u2019s like, \u2018Okay, Microsoft benefited more than Bungie did from the success of Halo.\u2019 There\u2019s no other story that can be written there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spencer continued and said he understands the appeal of becoming independent, citing that Bungie probably felt like it had another Halo-like franchise in them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re saying, \u2018Hey, I think I\u2019ve got another one of those in me. I want to really take another chance,\u2019 I can understand the allure of doing that as an independent company,\u201d the Xbox head said.<\/p>\n

Bungie formally split from Microsoft, with whom it had made multiple Halo games, in 2007. On October 5 of that year, Bungie announced the split and said it had become an independent company. In the division, though, Microsoft retained all rights to Halo, a franchise now developed primarily by 343 Industries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nearly three years later, Bungie signed onto a ten-year publishing deal with Activision, with which its popular Destiny franchise would begin. In January of 2019, the studio announced that it had ended this publishing deal early<\/a>, meaning Bungie was independent once more. It seems that Bungie intends to retain its independence<\/a> for now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

[Source: Axios<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n

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Do you think Bungie would be a good fit for Microsoft today? Let us know in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Xbox head Phil Spencer has revealed that he believes today\u2019s Microsoft could have kept Bungie around.\u00a0 This news comes by way of Axios, which reports that Spencer understands why Bungie left Microsoft to become independent in a new interview. He also said that in today\u2019s Xbox ecosystem, Bungie might have stayed with Microsoft.\u00a0 \u201cCould we [keep Bungie around] today? I think we could,\u201d Spencer told Axios when asked if Bungie\u2019s departure was inevitable.\u00a0 Spencer said that since Bungie\u2019s departure, Xbox has learned a lot but understands why the studio left.\u00a0 \u201cAt the time, they had big ambitions,\u201d Spencer said. \u201cThey had sold their business for a certain amount of money. They saw what Halo turned into. And it\u2019s like, \u2018Okay, Microsoft benefited more than Bungie…<\/p>\n

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